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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 of the 2024 Racial Equity Challenge prompts 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 justice and food justice
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Day #21: Final Reflections
Today we invite you to spend a little time on this final day of the FSNE REC reflecting on how your participation has helped you to think, feel, sense and act differently on this journey of moving from “me to we” and advancing transformative change in communities, food systems and
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Day #20: Catch-Up and Reflect
Again, we are leaving space on this last weekend of the FSNE REC for 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.
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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 forces 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. The stories we take in and
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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.
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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 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
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Day #15: Build Bridges and Solidarity
01 Learn “Solidarity is…a verb, a practice, a strategy.” That’s how Solidarity Is, a project of Building Movement Project, introduces their Principles of Transformative Solidarity Practice which includes centering, connections, commonalities, co-liberation, co-spiratorship, and capacity. Further, the Building Movement Project differentiates
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Week Three Theme: Building a Bigger “We”
This week will look at how we can continue to expand the “we” that we currently consider to be “us” to a larger, more diverse and more profound WE. Building “a bigger we” is about certainly about creating more partnerships and a larger sense of community across lines of human
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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 Nutrition equity and the right to food are critical aspects of ensuring 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 dismantle the historic and systemic roots of racism,
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Day #9: Address Poverty and Othering of Those Living in Poverty
01 Learn Addressing poverty is another point of great leverage around which to mobilize allies and accomplices, 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,
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Day #8: Address White Supremacy Culture
01 Learn The systemic racism in our food system and society more broadly and specifically targets Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and limits and/or denies them access to meeting their core human needs for wellbeing and belonging, such as healthy food and water, shelter/protection from
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Week Two Theme: Mobilizing the Current “We”
This week we will look at areas where we can focus our efforts to achieve equitable wellbeing, belonging, and right relationships in food systems and beyond. These are not necessarily easy things to do, yet our sense is that shifts made in these leverage areas would go a long way
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Day #7: Catch-Up and Reflect
More time today to catch up and also go deeper, if it is of interest to you Also, 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. If you
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Day #6: 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 #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 context 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 our “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 communities. According to FFI, wellbeing is
FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
2024 Daily Prompts & Discussion Forum
