Taken from CMASS weekly email***
Food Justice and Community Gardening
(A collaboration between WOCLN and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center)
Thursday, September 10, 2020, 5:30-6:45pm
Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/96721593858Meeting ID: 967 2159 3858
How does the environmental justice movement include and exclude the lived experiences and voices of marginalized communities of color, and which issues does the movement tend to focus on and overlook? We can learn more about this by looking more closely at the ways in which food, climate, and farming intersect with race — especially in urban cities and communities with higher populations of people of color.
This panel of experts in the environmental and food justice movements will talk about their work on creating equitable food systems, celebrating and reclaiming indigenous food culture, food security and the climate, and working with youth on health. The panelists discuss these topics through an intersectional lens connecting race to community, education, and the preservation of oral history.*
Panelists include: Olivia Aguilar, Mount Holyoke College | Neftali Duran, Holyoke Food and Equity Collective | Andrew Laurion, Urban Resources * Garden Economics (URGE), Springfield | Lorena Moreno, Riquezas del Campo Cooperative Farm | Jose Marinez, Riquezas del Campo Cooperative Farm
*We will have Spanish translation of the discussion
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