Cooperative Charter — Ironwood Range
Year 4 After the Fracture
We came north with what we could carry and what we could build again.
The ground here is hard but honest. It yields only to steady hands and shared labor.
So we set our names together, to bind what the world broke—not in law, but in keeping.
Article I — Land
The land shall be held in common.
Each family may tend a portion, but no portion may be sold or fenced against need.
When a field goes untended, it returns to the cooperative.
The rivers and forests remain open to all who use them with care.
Article II — Labor
Work is the bond of belonging.
Every able person contributes to the common good according to skill and season.
No task is beneath dignity, and no craft is beyond respect.
Profit without labor is forbidden.
Article III — Provision
Food, shelter, and fire belong first to survival, not to trade.
Each household contributes to the store and draws from it in times of want.
When one family’s store is full and another’s empty, the difference is shared until both are steady.
Article IV — Justice
Disputes shall be heard in the open, before the gathered community.
Those who cause harm must make repair in kind, or through agreed service.
No punishment may exceed the harm done.
No one may act as judge in their own quarrel.
Article V — Learning and Care
All children shall be taught to read, to reckon, to mend what breaks, and to tend what grows.
The sick and the old are the charge of the whole.
Those who teach, heal, or guard do so in the name of all and are sustained by all.
Article VI — Mutual Defense
Each household keeps watch for the others.
If danger comes, the alarm is everyone’s to answer.
Weapons are for defense of life and land only.
No person shall raise a weapon in anger against a neighbor.
Article VII — Succession and Stewardship
New members may join the cooperative by the consent of those who live within it and by pledge of shared labor.
Children raised here inherit its keeping.
Should any depart, their portion returns to the common store.
The Charter shall be read aloud each spring, so memory does not fade.
Signed at Ironwood Range, in the fourth year after the Fracture:
Makakuk Tulugarjuk Villafuerta
Francesca Villafuerta
Maria Rosa Valeria
Ernesto Valeria
Aisha Bakari Sinclair
Morgan Alaric Sinclair
Filed from the Ironwood Cooperative Records — Mat-Su Valley, Year 4 A.F.
Preserved under the Commonwealth Department of Lived Sovereignty, Port Jubilee Archives — Year 148 A.F.
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