Discussion about how cooperative farming and racial equity in federal food policy can create economic sustainability in Black communities. Connect with the work of the panelists: Tahz Walker Website: Earthseedlandcoop.org Facebook: @earthseedlandcoop Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D. Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Sharrona Moore Websites: Indianablackfarmers.com & Lawrencecommunitygardens.org Facebook/Instagram: @IndianaBlackFarmersCoop & @lawrencecommunitygardens DeShawn Blanding Website: Ruralco.org Instagram: @ruralco Facebook: @RuralCoalition
Teaser photo credit: National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Facebook page
Tags: access to land, black commons, co-operatives, new economy
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After the financial crash of 2008-9, I started to discover tools and ideas that I thought were promising, but discrete and disconnected. But they’re not: they can be (and are being) used together to form networks that have the potential to grow exponentially to challenge the status quo – to build a commons economy, a commons society, a commons world.
I don’t think anything is more important than challenging the notion that ‘they’ will solve the current poly-crisis and keep people safe and fed via existing and new technologies, economic policies and political negotiation. They won’t. It’s time for ordinary people to try to do it for themselves.
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