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Harvesting Justice
Harvesting Justice was created to share stories of some of the countless changes propelled by communities and movements in the Americas, to inspire hope that we are not condemned to live within the industrial food system as-is, and to offer tools for organizing and education.
Series Introduction
Introducing “Harvesting Justice”
Harvesting Justice was created to inspire hope that we are not condemned to live within the industrial food system as-is and to offer tools for organizing and education.
Defending Indigenous Lands and Waters in Honduras: The Case of Rio Blanco
A Honduran-owned and foreign-financed company has been attempting to build a dam on the sacred Gualcarque River in the Lenca community of Rio Blanco.
The Ancestral Values We Inherited: Protecting Indigenous Water, Land and Culture in Mexico
"We won't let the government or foreign companies own or exploit our resources," says Saul Atanasio Roque Morales, a Xoxocotla indigenous man from the state of Morelos, Mexico.
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“They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless”: Reclaiming Indigenous Lands and Strength in Honduras
Multinational corporations are moving into Central America to exploit gold and other minerals, rivers, forests, and agricultural lands. One area of high interest in the corporate feeding frenzy is …
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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …
Without Our Land, We Cease to Be a People: Defending Indigenous Territory and Resources in Honduras
'What we Garifuna face is largely the same things faced by people all over Latin America, and in fact the world.'
We Don’t Have Life Without Land: Holding Ground in Honduras
On vivid display there is the search for solutions to the problems addressed in this Harvesting Justice series: the piracy of land, indigenous territories, agriculture, food systems and the …
Food for Body, Food for Thought, Food for Justice: People’s Grocery in Oakland, California
When individuals are forced to travel outside their community for groceries, not only does their access to healthy food suffer. The economy does, too.
Food Justice: Connecting Farm to Community
Just Food in New York City is nimbly doing just what its name suggests: building food justice.
“The Revolution Is Going to Be Fought With the Hoe”: Agriculture and Environment in New Mexico
New Mexicans are focused on creating a 'regional foodshed,' a local food ecosystem that bases its boundaries on ecological parameters like water flow, rather than on arbitrary state lines.
Meet Up, Eat Up, Act Up: Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workers’ Rights
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United aims to fundamentally shift the power structures that allow the inequities to exist in the food industry in the first place.