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 15, 2015 | 5 acre farm, Oakland, Permaculture + Science + Agg, PJ in the News, Planting Justice Media, Slide Show, social permaculture
Dear Community, We are thrilled to share some very exciting news with you today: Planting Justice has purchased Rolling River Nursery – and with it, the largest and most biodiverse collection of certified organic tree crops in North America! Over the past 35...
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 18, 2015 | #NoNewJails, Field Trips, organizing, pathways2resilience, Politics, prison, Slide Show, social permaculture
By Nicole Deane “The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.Through its reach and...
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...
