Category: environment
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// october food activism
October holds multiple events important to those pushing for equitable access to food. Last week included World Food Day and the award of the Food Sovereignty Prize. Yesterday marked the first time that Feeding the 5,000 held an event in the U.S.—just a few blocks from my home in Oakland—after much successful organizing against…
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// people’s climate march & the green arcade
Food Sovereignty & Climate Justice In anticipation of the People’s Climate March in New York City on 9/21, I wrote a piece with Eric Holt-Giménez for HuffPo on the intersections between food and climate movements. If you’re a West Coaster interested in participating in actions around the UN Climate Summit, there will also be a…
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// spring in berfrois
When I started teaching community college, my mentor teacher said, “You don’t know what seeds you are planting, or when they will grow, or how they will grow.” I left teaching for the finca, where I planted squash, peanuts, sunflowers, carrots, lettuce; transplanted sesame and cacao; and harvested bananas and citrus that someone…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 