Other Futures Are Possible

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Radical Nourishment

Food Culture Collective

9 episodes

6 days ago

Radical Nourishment is a deep dive into the stories of foodshed communities around the U.S. They're growing in strength and power as they reclaim sovereignty and self-determination in ways big and small. Co-created by Food Culture Collective and HEAL Food Alliance, two organizations leading food sovereignty and land justice work in the U.S., the podcast activates liberatory narratives that ground us in an irresistible future.

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Other Futures Are Possible

Radical Nourishment

22 minutes 28 seconds

1 year ago

Other Futures Are Possible

In the imaginations of some folks, movements towards food sovereignty live primarily in idyllic community gardens, small-scale organic farms, local farmers’ markets, and farm-to-table restaurants. But the work of sovereignty lives within spaces of deeper complexity – spaces woven together by the seeds of joys, suffering, commitments, creativity, and resilience. Derrick McDonald and Shephali Patel call in the stories and voices that remind us that sovereignty lives in our past, present, and futures.

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Learn more and support Black Star Farmers @ blackstarfarmers.org

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Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org

Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/

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Derrick McDonald: https://www.hackerarchitects.com/derrick-mcdonald

StoryMap of the initial seeding of Black Lives Memorial Garden in Cal Anderson

Coverage on 2021 Black Lives Matter protests and CHOP/CHAZ:

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/seattle_activists_create_autonomous_zone_near

https://crosscut.com/focus/2020/11/seattles-cal-anderson-park-microcosm-national-upheaval

Watch the documentary “As Long as the Rivers Run” to learn about Bernie Whitebear and a legacy of indigenous land and food sovereignty movements in the Pacific Northwest

Overview of Daybreak Star and the Fort Lawton occupation: https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/online-exhibits/daybreak-star-indian-cultural-center

Omari Garrett and the occupation of the Colman School

Overview: https://www.historylink.org/File/8602

A complex history:

Stay connected with Shephali at shephali.earth

Recommended Reading List inspired by Derrick

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway