Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues.
On the final episode of the series, Dame and Teresa are joined by the brilliant Leah Penniman. A leading voice in the fight for food and land sovereignty for Black farmers and community, Leah is the Co-Director and Farm Manager of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm in upstate New York. She talks about the deeply rooted connections between our food systems and incarceration, how Afro-Indigenous planting practices protect and rejuvenate the land, and how the organization has grown from dropping off carrots to hungry neighbors to leading the fight to reimagine our food systems (while still dropping off carrots to neighbors).
SHOW NOTES
Tiffany LaShae - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/food-sovereignty-education/3d/tiffany-lashae/
Soul Fire farm - https://www.soulfirefarm.org
Farming While Black - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/media/farming-while-black/
Baba Curtis Muhammad - https://snccdigital.org/people/curtis-hayes/
Freedom Food Alliance - https://freedomfoodalliance.wordpress.com/
Rev Garrison Frazier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Frazier
Greenwood food blockade - https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/
Dr Gail Myers - https://www.drgailmyers.com/
Rhythms of the Land - https://www.rhythmsoftheland.com/
Booker T Whatley - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/you-can-thank-black-horticulturist-booker-t-whatley-your-csa-180977771/
Kombit (Haitian Work Parties) - http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-agricultural-system-of-kombit-in-haiti.html
Phytoremediation - https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-04/documents/a_citizens_guide_to_phytoremediation.pdf
Hazel Johnson - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/
Karen Washington - https://www.karenthefarmer.com/about
All We Can Save - https://www.allwecansave.earth/
Working the Roots - https://bookshop.org/books/working-the-roots-over-400-years-of-traditional-african-american-healing/9780692857878
Freedom Farmers - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469643700/freedom-farmers/
Black Nature - https://ugapress.org/book/9780820334318/black-nature/
Highlander Center - https://highlandercenter.org/
Reparations map - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/
Learn more about the Portal Project - sjiportalproject.com/
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