Food Justice Summer

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arthur L

Claremont, CA

people helped1000
People Doing It 30

The Problem

The Lower 9th Ward has the lowest rate of return since Katrina. It is thus up to the people to create the conditions for residents to return to their homes and to create the conditions to raise happy-healthy-youth in what remains an environmental justice community. Bad schools, oil-refineries, garbage-dumps, unhealthy food are some of the negatives that we seek to replace with a happy-healthy alternative that benefits people, the earth, and serves justice. What does this look like? We must answer this question. We are also trying to solve the problems of a really lousy schooling system in our country that fails students and leaves them without agency or desire to continue learning. We are also looking to create an anti-oppression youth movement centered around systems change through creating viable alternatives or everything.

Plan of Action

We aim to begin a national transformation by training the hearts, minds, and hands of youth from across the nation to consider challenges facing us. We will be supporting and learning from Our School at Blair Grocery, the phoenix rising from the ashes of Hurricane Katrina. Youth will be engaging in a model for youth-centered-sustainable-community-development and learning with each other about youth-empowerment, democratic-organization, sustainable-food-systems, food-justice, environmental-justice, and how to take action to create solutions to the biggest challenges of our time. We aim to start a conversation across difference that will lead to action for a better world! We plant to bring 1000 youth to new orleans this summer and work together on figuring out how to address challenges we all face as we take the future into our own hands. We plan to then support the growth of local projects that bud aroudn the country and from there create a gian community across the country that can learn and grow from each other.

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