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 | Feb 13, 2015 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, PJ Education, Planting Justice, Slide Show
Facilitated by Maya Salsedo, Haleh Zandi, and Or Rabinowiz In response to the grand jury decision not to indict a Ferguson, MI police officer in the August 2014 killing of teenager Michael Brown, it was clear that Planting Justice staff members were angry and...
by | Oct 2, 2014 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, PJ Education, PJ in the News, Slide Show
From anti-war organizing to a sustainable food system…Below you can check out Director of Education and Co-Founder of Planting Justice Haleh Zandi’s interview with Fernando Grajeda from Awakin, as they discuss everything from social movements and...
by | Sep 16, 2014 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, Inspiring Teachers/Leaders!, PJ Education, Planting Justice, Slide Show, social permaculture, sustainable
When we came back to the Stanislaus County Juvenile Commitment Center for the first time since our two-day garden build we were eager to be able to teach and learn from the new students we would have. Our day was a sampling of sorts featuring games, activities and...
by | Aug 6, 2014 | Anti-Oppression + Racism + Food Justice, Field Trips, PJ Education, Planting Justice, social permaculture, sustainable
This past week Planting Justice team members Maya, Wiley, and Tylen all went to Rooted in Community’s Northern California Youth Day at Pie Ranch in Pescadero. And we didn’t travel alone, no, we brought the Planting Justice bus full of our friends and...
