Food Justice Movement: Time to Take it Up a Notch, yo.

I've been quiet for a bit of time now.  The last few seasons have been transformational for me, lots of growing and learning happening.  Since the #foodandfreedom rides, I've spent more of my time opening my ears to what's been happening in the food justice/sovereignty movement, especially among youth my age and younger.  It's starting to boil, and I can feel it.

I've been realizing moreso these days that my response to this growing movement, while I continue to help grow food and others leaders, is best communicated in more artistic forms: poetry, video, drawings, theatre, writing, storytelling, etc.  It's my thing, what I do, my itch, what gets me through the day.

So to the youth food movement: it's time to take it up a notch, with some more artistic flair.  Who's in?

A preview:

44 năm, 44 años, 44 years

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The first challenge in honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is to keep it real.  I'm fortunate because some of my colleagues actually knew him as a young man and worked closely with him until his death.  They tell me that King as a young man loved to have a good time.  He loved soul food: red beans and rice, greens and ham hocks and pigs' feet.

Joy Bennet Kinnon

I choose to identify with the underprivileged.  I choose to identify with the poor.  I choose to give my life for the hungry.  I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity.  I choose to live for those who find themselves seeing life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign.  This is the way I'm doing.  If it means suffering a little bit, I'm going that way.  If it means sacrificing, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard of voice saying, "Do something for others."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

trái cây | fruit

“Ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây”

When eating a fruit, remember the person who planted the tree.

Vietnamese Proverb

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