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Pathways To Resilience
Pathways To Resilience Planting Justice is proud to announce the Pathways To Resilience program which will provide Permaculture Design Courses, stipends, case management support and job placement...
Grow Compost the Empire in 2014!
Happy New Year! Thank you so much to those who have contributed their writings, pictures and thoughts in 2013. Planting Justice created the Compost the Empire Blog with the hope that one day it...
A People’s History with the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison by Haleh Zandi
A People’s History with the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison by Haleh Zandi ----- Photos by Insight Garden Program Photographer, Kirk Crippens On Friday, we had our last class of...
Planting Justice: 2013 Year in Review
2013 has been an incredible year for Planting Justice!! We've increased the number of urban permaculture gardens we've built to more than 230, and we've grown to a full-time staff of 20 amazing...
The Insight Garden Program and Planting Justice’s Vegetable Garden at San Quentin State Prison
In November, history was made! Gavin, Haleh, Andrew, May & Or of the PJ team helped Beth Waitkus and the Insight Garden Program get four raised beds built and planted on the grounds of the...
2013 Planting Justice Winter Updates
Happy holidays from all of us at Planting Justice! Below are some highlights of our season's work as we continue to grow food, jobs & community here in the Bay Area. PJ STAFF GARDEN BUILD ...
Composting the Empire, Part 1: 5 Suns + 3 Dialectic Stages = 1 Queer Theory By Staci Everheart
Composting the Empire, Part 1: 5 Suns + 3 Dialectic Stages = 1 Queer Theory By Staci Everheart The Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl and the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel are on a date!...
Salvador Mateo and Kevin Williams Interviewed on KPFA
Listen to Salvador and Kevin in one the best interviews I've heard in a while.... @plantjustice [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125493635"...
Planting Justice Staff – 10 Point Program
Educators Haleh Zandi and Julio Madrigal led the Planting Justice staff in group exercise to draft our own 10 Point Program based on the Black Panthers 10 Point Program created by Huey Newton and...
Share The Harvest with Planting Justice!
Help Planting Justice by Sharing the Harvest! One of the greatest benefits of urban agriculture is the community that is built by sharing the harvest each season. And this season, Planting Justice...
Event this Tuedsday: Honor the Earth: Environmental Issues from an Indigenous Perspective with Winona Laduke
Please join us for a community forum with Winona LaDuke during her visit to Ohlone/Chochenyo territories! Tuesday, December 10th @ 7 PM Intertribal Friendship House 523 International Blvd, Oakland,...
Eco-Queer Movement(s) by Joshua Sbicca
Eco-queer movement(s): Challenging heteronormative space through (re)imagining nature and food Joshua Sbicca European Journal of Ecopsychology 3: 33–52 (2012) Abstract In an era of ecological...
A Common Ground found through Food Justice: Growing Coalitions between Environmental, Human Rights, Anti-Imperialism, and Labor Movements
A Common Ground found through Food Justice: Growing Coalitions between Environmental, Human Rights, Anti-Imperialism, and Labor Movements Haleh Zandi March 2009 Abstract This paper seeks to build...
Defend Albany Bulb from Eviction! No Thanks Resistance Festival This Weekend
Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Existing workshops include: Know...
Remembering Our Dead
Hello again. My name is, among other things, Chris Hughes. You may remember me from such blog posts as "A Recipe, Because Cooking is Important". I also identify as transgender, specifically...
Come to Ferment Change!
Come support the work of food justice organizations in your own neighborhood! This Friday the 22nd at the Firehouse Collective in Berkeley near Ashby BART. Come take part in tasting and...
“Starting with a Shovel” – A Personal Path Towards Food Justice by Wiley Rogers
Rhubarb used to grow all throughout San Francisco - practically on every street you could find wild rhubarb. When I dream about the 250 gardens Planting Justice has planted in the last four years,...
Coalition of Immokalee Workers Launch Week of Action!!!
By Andrew Meeker. Reposted from Edible Manhattan. Photo Credits: Just Harvest, USA. Thank You! On October 16, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) came to New York to receive the Roosevelt...
Statement from Council of Elders, Caretakers of Mother Earth
COUNCIL STATEMENT Sign the petition at http://caretakersofmotherearth.com/ This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of North and South America, working in unity to...
Nineteen Sixty Nine – The Official Student Journal of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Check out the incredibly beautiful and poetic articles in this year's nineteen sixty nine, the official student journal of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley....
Planting Justice Road Trips to Taos for the Growing Food and Justice For All Gathering
Planting Justice in Taos for the Growing Food and Justice For All Gathering!! ---by Haleh Zandi--- This month, eight Planting Justice staff drove across the Southwest to Taos, New Mexico for the...