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How to use this site year-round
While the scheduled twenty-one days of this year’s FSNE Racial Equity Challenge wrap up in April, we invite you to make use of these materials throughout the year. FSNE and the volunteer planning team invest a significant amount of time and energy updating and improving the FSNE REC every year
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Spanish Translation of FSNE REC Available!
Spanish translation and interpretation of the 2025 Racial Equity Challenge prompts and events is provided by FrontLine Farming, a nonprofit farm and advocacy group focusing on food security, food Justice and food sovereignty. FrontLine Farming and Mile High Farmers recognize that language justice is an integral part of both racial
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Day #19: Weave Collective Dreams of “The Better”
01 Learn At Food Solutions New England, we believe that vision and imagination are powerful tools for change in food and other systems that can help us forge paths to the bigger and better “we” that is desired by so many. As we explored in yesterday’s prompt,
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Day #18: Raise the Next Generations With Care
01 Learn Our children are our gifts to the future. Our commitment to these young people demands we celebrate their differences, acknowledge the challenges they face at different stages, in different places, and explore the possibilities for their future in ongoing and authentic ways. Though some adults
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Day #17: Make “Sacred” Space, Connect to All Our Kin
01 Learn Another way we can build a bigger “we” is to “take time out of time,” or make sacred space, to become more aware of and connect to the more-than-human world. We are one species among many, and Indigenous teachings remind us that we are so
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Day #16: Connect Food and Faith-Beliefs-Spirituality
01 Learn In 1964, as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he shared the following often quoted words “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds,
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Day #15: Build Bridges and Solidarity
01 Learn “Solidarity is a verb, a practice, a strategy. This is how Solidarity Is, a project of Building Movement Project, introduces their Principles of Transformative Solidarity Practice. The Building Movement Project also points to the difference between what they call “transactional solidarity” — being a spectator,
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Week Three Theme: Building a Bigger “We”
This week we will look at how we can continue to expand the “we” that we currently consider to be “us” to a larger, more diverse WE. Building “a bigger we” is certainly about creating more relationships and partnerships and a larger sense of community across human differences. This is
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Day #14: Catch-Up and Reflect
More time today to catch up and also go deeper, if it is of interest to you. And a reminder that part of learning and reflecting is not simply about thinking, but also honoring our emotional and embodied reactions. There is important information in our feelings and bodies.
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Day #13: Catch-Up and Reflect
We are leaving space on the weekends for FSNE REC participants to catch up on any topics from the week that you may not have been able to get to and/or to go a bit deeper in your explorations of a particular prompt, topic or materials. See below for links
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Day #12: Support Community Food Sovereignty and Self-Determination
01 Learn The idea of “food sovereignty” is central to a truly equitable and sustainable food system. This term is defined as “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food
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Day #11: Advance and Advocate for Equitable Food Policy
01 Learn Many racial and food justice advocates recognize the need for a fundamental transformation of how food is produced, processed, and distributed and/or shared in our communities. Such a transformation would need to center the human right to nutritious food for all people, focusing first and
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Day #10: Advance Nutrition Equity and The Right to Nutritious Food
01 Learn Working for nutrition equity and advancing the right to food movement are critical ways to ensure that everyone has access to adequate and nutritious sustenance. Transforming food systems into ones that reflect these as core values requires us to identify and address the historic and
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Day #9: Address Poverty and Othering of Those Living in Poverty
01 Learn Addressing poverty is another focal point around which to mobilize allies, as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference exemplified in starting the Poor People’s Campaign nearly 60 years ago. Poverty is in turns exhausting, infuriating, and demeaning. Surviving it
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Day #8: Address White Privilege and Supremacy Culture
01 Learn The systemic racism in our food system and society specifically targets Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and limits and/or denies them access to meeting their core needs for wellbeing and belonging, such as healthy food and water, shelter/protection, healing/healthcare, and education Although
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Week Two Theme: Mobilizing the Current “We”
This week we will look at areas where we can focus collective efforts with those to whom we are already connected to achieve equitable wellbeing, belonging, and right relationships in food systems and beyond. These are not necessarily easy things to do (all the more reason to do this with
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Day #7: Catch-Up and Reflect
More time today to catch up and also go deeper. Also, part of learning and reflecting is not simply about thinking, but also paying attention to our emotional and embodied reactions. There is important information in our feelings and bodies. Day #1 – Embrace Community
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Day #6: Catch-Up and Reflect
We are leaving space on the weekends for Challenge participants to catch up on any topics from the week that you may not have been able to get to and/or to go a bit deeper in your explorations of a particular prompt, topic or materials. See below for links to
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Day #5: Celebrate Diversity, Embrace Equity, Practice Inclusion
01 Learn Diversity, or variety and difference, is a source of joy and creativity in life. Those who would choose to deny difference, and reduce “we-ness” to only those they perceive as being exactly like themselves, are actually saying “no” to the many gifts we all have
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Day #4: Respect Indigeneity and Right Relationship
01 Learn Experiences of and access to love, wellbeing and belonging are impacted by history and the situations in which people live and grow. The current dominant food system in North America is directly connected to the colonial patterns that have been practiced here for hundreds of
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Day #3: Embrace Fierce Love
01 Learn What’s love got to do with racial equity and social justice? The Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister at the Middle Collegiate Church (a 900-member multiracial, multicultural, and inclusive congregation in New York City) and curator of the Revolutionary Love Conference, explains – “Racism is
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Day #2: Embrace Wellbeing and Belonging
01 Learn Another way to put more “we” in what otherwise might be only thinking about “me” is to embrace wellbeing and belonging. “We are all wired for wellbeing.” So say our friends at The Full Frame Initiative (FFI). Wellbeing is about the wholeness of people and
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Day #1: Embrace Community
01 Learn One way to “shift from me to we” is to embrace community, or what we hold in common. What is community, and why does it matter to our work for equity and social justice in food and other systems? Early on in our equity learning
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Week One Theme: “Shifting From Me to We”
This week will look at why it is important to shift perspective from seeing ourselves as completely separate individuals guided only by self-interest, to understanding ourselves as unique beings who are also a part of something much larger and wonderful. It seems that many of the social and systemic challenges
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Preparing for the FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
Welcome and Guidance Message: Welcome! We want to thank you for signing up for the FSNE 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge (REC). You are joining tens of thousands of people who have participated since 2015. The FSNE REC is meant to be
FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
2025 Daily Prompts & Discussion Forum
