Tag: resistance

Why Food Sovereignty is also about the Sovereign Soil

by Mama D – Community Centred Knowledge // @indigenousknow // http://www.symphonyofthesoil.com/

When we, as Earth’s inhabitants, gain a clear understanding of the roots of Food Sovereignty and its role in bringing freedom from systems of food oppression to cultivators of the Global South, we will stand a greater chance of also understanding how well aligned it is with the call for all of humankind to take better care of the fragile skin that adorns the planet: this skin is called the soil.

Food Sovereignty exists as a statement of clearly articulated rights in the face of economic and political and cultural oppression and it militates against the structures – legal, political and economic – that arose out of colonisation, slavery and ‘entrepreneurial’ adventurism in the Global South, chiefly undertaken by men of means from the Global North.

‘Concrete Heart Land’ film screening- Papa’s Cafe, Brixton

Community Food Growers Network presents ‘Concrete Heart Land’ Papa’s Cafe, 10-17, Pulross Road, Brixton, SW9 8AF Thursday the 18th of September, 2014 7pm Dinner 7.45pm Film screening – – – Concrete Heart Land trailer from Myths of Social Capitalism on Vimeo. Concrete Heart Land exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and…