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Caution: white soccer mom driving

The exercise went like this: Pick a demographic profile.  Then, jot down all the characteristics you associate with that profile. These are known as stereotypical characteristics.   Then, think of someone
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What do we want?

Permanent protection, dignity and respect for the 11 million undocumented people in the US! When do we want it? NOW!! On April 16th, in the first of a two-part exploration
Brandy Brooks at Rooting DC 2017 photo by Sonia Keiner

Time For Some Action: Making Moves Towards an Equitable Food System in the Chesapeake Foodshed

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.” – bell
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Farm to Plate progress to date

Vermont Farm to Plate is a program of the Vermont Legislature, administered by the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund to: Increase economic development in Vermont’s farm and food sector; Create jobs

Campus Dining 101: A Benchmark Study on Farm to College in New England

http://www.farmtoinstitution.org/blog/new-fine-report-reveals-local-food-buying-stats-colleges-universities
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Network Innovation 3.0: The 2017 Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

This post originally appeared on the Interaction Institute for Social Change blog.  “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can
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Torch: Growing Season

This post by Lesley Heiser was originally published by The Rumpus on March 6, 2017 as part of TORCH, their series devoted to showcasing personal essays and interviews about immigrant
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Who Fishes Matters: The Impacts of Industrial Fishing on Women’s Lives

This story originally appeared in WhyHunger’s publication “Through Her Eyes: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty” for International Women’s Day 2017. We know that women are responsible for 60-80% of food production in the
Generations of the Eldredge family carrying on the family's fishing business. Photo courtesy of Shareen Davis Photography

Defining “family fishermen”

This post comes from NAMA’s Coordinating Director, Niaz Dorry, and was originally posted on the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance blog. We often are asked “what do you mean by family

Opinion: Farmworkers, Immigration and Local Food

This post was originally published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 1, 2017, by Claire Morenon and Philip Korman and appeared in: CISA Opinion Pieces, Press Room As the national debate about refugees