Week Two
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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. Day #8 – Address White Privilege and Supremacy Culture Day #9 – Address Poverty and Othering of Those Living in Poverty Day #10 -Advance Nutrition Equity and The Right to Nutritious Food Day #11 – Advance and Advocate for
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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 to all the prompts of this past week, all of which speak to how we can mobilize and focus “the current ‘we’.” Day #8 – Address White Privilege and Supremacy Culture Day #9 – Address Poverty and Othering of Those Living in Poverty
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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 and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.” U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is an accomplice that works to assert democratic, “people” control over our 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 foremost upon the people who are not equitably served by our current food systems. This level of transformation requires changing our behaviors at individual, institutional, and cultural levels. Therefore, new local, regional, national, and global policies —changing laws and regulations while providing the necessary resources — are
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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 systemic roots of racism, discrimination, bias and marginalization in our existing food system. As noted by Darcey Freedman and researchers from Case Western University, nutrition equity is a state of having freedom, choice and dignity in food traditions and culture that will support the whole health of
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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 demands a high capacity to prevent the sense of not belonging from diminishing one’s soul along with one’s health and overall wellbeing. Poverty affects millions of people in the U.S. alone. Estimates range from 12.4% or 78.4 million people (almost 1 out of every 4 people) to 112 million (almost
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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 all people come from the same human species, homo sapiens sapiens, ideas of “biological race” have been incorrectly and deceptively used to explain both physical differences and diverse forms of cultural expression. This understanding is also used to justify unjust treatment of certain people and communities, despite being debunked by
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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 others), and we believe that shifts made in these areas would go a long way in bringing about a more love-bound community in the place of the current hierarchy of human value. Tema de la Segunda Semana: Movilizando el “nosotros” actual