In this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Albino Garcia gives a rich history of how La Plazita came into existence. He discusses La Plazita's philosophies of "La Cultura Cura" and how they are healing formally incarcerated youth and families through connecting them to the land. Albino also takes time to dive deep into what it means to build organic community power.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Dr. Ashley Gripper tells an in-depth story of her life—sharing all the interconnected moments, memories and experiences that brought her to the land work that she does daily. Through joy, grief, sorrow, and healing, all things return back to the earth and so should we.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Lupe Gonzalo of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) shares the profound power that lies within farmworker voices to build agency among farmworkers in impact change in Immokalee, FL and inspired advocates nation-wide. [This episode is in Spanish. An English transcription can be found on the episode webpage]
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Donne Gonzalez and Emily Arasim discuss their deep commit to serving as acequia caretakers, and passing on knowledge about intergenerational farming and the larger systems impacting people living in New Mexico.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, amaha sellasie shares the story of how Gem City Market, a worker owned cooperative, came into existence and his insight and perspective on the socio-political and economic dynamics that sparked the necessary change in his community.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Kyle Tsukahira shares his journey into food justice work and his work to increase access to affordable and culturally relevant foods across ethnic backgrounds for the diverse Asian Pacific Islander community.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Emanuel H. Brown, Executive Director and Steward of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, talks about his life's work centered around the questions: of How can people get free? How can people feel free?
Read MoreThe Praxis Project is excited to launch our third season of the In Praxis podcast. In season 3, we're exploring community-driven strategies for food justice. Learn more about why we’re focusing on food justice in this season and check out our first episode!
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Christina Goette, co-founder of Shape Up San Francisco Coalition, emphasizes the importance of centering the voices of communities who are disproportionately burdened by beverage industry's predatory marketing as well as ensuring tax revenues are reinvested directly back into these communities.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Michael Jacobson, senior scientist at and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), discusses the rise of soda consumption and array of strategies advocates have used reduce its harmful effects.
Read MoreIn this episode of In Praxis, Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Denisa Livingston from Dine Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Indigenous Council discusses how the fight to reduce sugary drink and other unhealthy food consumption is a matter of reclaiming indigenous lifeways and foodways.
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