From Food Justice to Liberation
Check out the newest release in our Learning Circle Brief Series: From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms. This brief seeks to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy food alternatives.
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Appreciation for Our 2022 Interns!
For National Intern Day, we want to take a moment and appreciate our dynamic 2022 interns and everything that they bring to The Praxis Project!
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Organic Community Power - Albino Garcia - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 10
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.
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BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF EARTHSEED - ASHLEY GRIPPER - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 9
In 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.
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As anticipated, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Access to safe health care is a human right. This is dangerous and unconstitutional and will have devastating consequences on BIPOC, low-income people, rural communities, and other marginalized communities whose residents often do not have the resources or ability to travel to obtain the safe, reproductive health care they need. Read more…
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[Spanish] Derechos de los Trabajadores, ¡Justicia Alimentaria! / Workers' Rights, Food Justice! - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 8
In 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]
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Roots & Remedies 2022, Pleasure In Praxis
The Praxis Project Presents: Roots & Remedies 2022, Pleasure in Praxis! Join us from July 11-15th for a pleasurable week of virtual programming all centering the radical practice of pleasure as activism.
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Building Community Power to Achieve Health and Racial Equity: Principles to Guide Transformative Partnerships with Local Communities
This new article from The National Academic of Medicine Commentary co-authored by Praxis ED, Xavier Morales, shares how building community power is essential to achieving health and racial equity.
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The Power of Youth Led Food Justice - Bevelyn Afor Ukah - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 7
In this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Bevelyn Afor Ukah share’s her work with youth working towards food justice whose organizing efforts span across interconnected issue areas leading us towards liberation.
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GETTING BACK TO MOTHER EARTH - DONNE GONZALEZ & EMILY ARASIM - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 6
In 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.
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ROOTED IN PRAXIS - AMAHA SELLASIE - IN PRAXIS SEASON 3, EPISODE 5
In 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.
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Planting Seeds to Grow Community - In Praxis Season 3, Episode 4
In this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Angela Patel, as a second generation Pan-Asian American, uses her cultural history to shape and influence her work at Danny Woo Community Garden as the Sustainable Community and Educational Coordinator.
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History Bearing Fruit to the Present - In Praxis Season 3, Episode 3
In 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.
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Praxis Spring Staff Retreat
The Praxis team is taking time this week for our spring staff retreat! Our normal operating hours and communication will return next week! Peace
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Feeding the Generations to Come - In Praxis Season 3, Episode 2
In this episode of In Praxis, Season 3: Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice, Carlton tells his food story—a deeply compelling tale that tells the socio-political and economic history of Utica, Mississippi as it connects to the current day.
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The Praxis Project Receives a $4M Gift from MacKenzie Scott
The Praxis Project announced today the receipt of a $4M gift from MacKenzie Scott, a significant donation which will further Praxis’ efforts to create scalable infrastructure and expand our programmatic systems. [Read more]
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Finding Freedom in Food - In Praxis Season 3, Episode 1
In 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?
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Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice - In Praxis Podcast Announcement
The 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!
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POPULAR EDUCATION: EMBRACING THE LEGACY AND ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
Praxis is pleased to announce a three-session workshop series, “Popular Education: Embracing the Legacy and Envisioning the Future”, facilitated by Pancho Argüelles. Learn more….
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Fiscal Sponsorship Office Hours
If you're someone who has general questions about fiscal sponsorship, or specific questions about our program, feel free to join us at our monthly Fiscal Sponsorship Office Hours! Hosted by our Senior Program Manager, Blair, and our Associate Director, Ariel, these are public Q&A sessions that will take place on the last Fridays of the month at 9am PST / 12pm EST!
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