Fwd: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Agriculture Lunchtime Speaker Series begins 1/26
Annette Mills
Hi, Community Inclusion and Food Action Teams,
I thought you might be particularly interested in this upcoming speaker series. Please see details below.
Annette
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From: Alison Hensley Sexauer <ali...@rvfoodsystem.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:26 AM
Subject: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Agriculture Lunchtime Speaker Series begins 1/26
To: <comm...@ocfsn.org>
Greetings,
We are pleased to be supporting this upcoming winter speaker series. See below for information to copy/paste and share widely through your newsletters. This is a 6 week journey, so please don't hesitate to include it in communications on a weekly or monthly basis.
Anti-Racist and Decolonial Agriculture Winter Speaker Series Session
The Rogue Valley Food System Network, SOU Native American Studies and OSU Extension have partnered to bring together diverse voices in agriculture to support our local communities in learning and integrating the distinct and varied ways of farming, tending land, and understanding the challenges faced by BIPOC farmers and farmworkers.
Throughout this six-part series, we will hear from voices representing historically marginalized and unheard populations. We will hear from Indigenous voices about the agricultural practices of the original peoples that tended this land, food sovereignty and how the role of fire plays a critical role in restoring first foods. We will hear from black farmers serving urban areas in Portland, using food and agriculture to restore justice and power communities through food sovereignty. We will hear from local advocates about the impacts of cannabis on farmworkers in the Rogue Valley.
We will ask: What does it mean to have access to culturally appropriate food? What do we witness when communities come together to build structures of resilience and sovereignty using food and farming as a vehicle, and what does this mean for the future of food?
We will use these sessions over the course of the winter to build a community of understanding, restore a narrative of justice, and gain a deeper understanding of where our food truly comes from.
Register here. Be sure to register for ALL Sessions!
Thursday, January 26 “Reindigenizing and Rematriating with the Land" with Fox Del Mar of NativeWomanshare
Thursday, February 2 “Decolonizing Agriculture by Building Culture” with Dan Wahpepah
Thursday, February 9 “The Struggle of Cannabis Workers in Local Grows” with Unete Oregon, a movement of farm workers and immigrants
Thursday, February 16 “Good Fire: Tribal First Foods and Indigenous Fire Science” with Joe Scott
Thursday, February 23 “The Nexus of Afrofuturism, Place and Agriculture in Black Liberation” with Mirabai Collins, Co-Founder, Black Futures Farm and Co-Director, Black Food Sovereignty Coalition, and Malcolm Shabazz Hoover, Co- Founder and Co-Director, Black Futures Farm
Thursday, March 2 “Remembering: Black Herbal History” with Bashira Muhammad, Founder and Owner at Zoom Out Mycology
Stasie Maxwell is the series facilitator.
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Alison Hensley Sexauer
Executive Director
Rogue Valley Food System Network
