The modern food justice movement began in 1996. Food justice aims to ensure the benefits and risks of what we eat, where it comes from, how it is grown, produced, distributed, accessed (including access to culturally important foods), and eaten are shared equally. It seeks to transform the current food system in order to eliminateContinue reading “The Seeds of Food Injustice: The Connection of Colonization and Food Injustice in North America”
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My ‘Thanksgiving’ at Standing Rock: From the perspective of a White-Ally
My trip to Oceti Sakowin Camp was organized by a group of Southern Illinois residents who are concerned about recent events at The Standing Rock Sioux reservation, which is part of The Great Sioux Nation. We have been meeting since September and have been running a community education campaign about events at Standing Rock, holdingContinue reading “My ‘Thanksgiving’ at Standing Rock: From the perspective of a White-Ally”