by | Dec 23, 2015 | 5 acre farm, albany bulb, Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, Farm Workers Movement + Justice, Field Trips, organizing, Permaculture + Science + Agg, Slide Show, social permaculture, sustainable
Planting Justice stands in solidarity with the Soil Not Oil coalition – and you should too! On Monday, January 4th, Foodie Freedom Fighters from across the state of California will gather for a Seed Freedom Rally in Sacramento to keep seed sharing from becoming...
by | Dec 7, 2015 | #NoNewJails, Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, PJ Education, Politics, prison, Slide Show
“I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons” – Angela Davis Four times a year, the Planting Justice Education team facilitates Workplace Justice trainings, and this time our staff voted to focus on the Abolition of the Prison Industrial...
by | Nov 3, 2015 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, education, PJ Education, Politics, Slide Show
We were living in Chicago. I was eight years old and it was summer time. My mother called us in from the street…Kenmore…where we’d been outside playing and running around. “I have something to tell you,” she said. Mom sat us down at the dining room table. It felt...
by | Oct 16, 2015 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, displacement, eviction, gentrification, Oakland, organizing, Slide Show
From our friends at Oakland Alliance: Oakland is in crisis. Our rent are risingfasterthan any other city in the U.S. As of 2010, Oakland had lost over25%of our Black residents to displacement – a trend that has accelerated over the last five years. Our...
by | Oct 8, 2015 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, direct action, Inspiring Teachers/Leaders!, Politics, Slide Show
with Grace (for Grace Lee Boggs, en su viaje a Mictlán, in her journey to the ancestors) montamos una ofrenda,prendiendo las velas,pidiendo del fuegitonuestro querido abuelitopor un poquitode su calorproteccióny luzwe flower,we cry,we sing,we give thanks,we reflect,we...
by | Oct 7, 2015 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, Slide Show
BUGS is “an organization of volunteers committed to building networks and community support for growers in both rural and urban settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, we nurture collective Black leadership to ensure we have a seat...
