Rise Up! Summer School 2020: Cultivating Resilient Food Systems in Times of Crisis

CAGJ is hosting Rise Up! Summer School  during the summer of 2020. Registration is now full. However, we are making all curriculum available to everyone interested!

We’ve broken down our Summer School resources into three tiers: Foundational, Supplemental, and Deep Dive. 

Overview:

JUNE: Past/Laying groundwork & Foundations
Topics: Food Sovereignty, Food Justice, Agroecology, Seed Sovereignty, Decolonization, Racist & genocidal roots of US food system
Highlighted CAGJ Campaign: Solidarity with Farmworkers

JULY: Present/Current state of food system
Topics: Corporate control of the food system, Agribusiness impact on climate crisis, Food workers’ rights and food security in a pandemic, Philanthro-capitalism
Highlighted CAGJ Campaign: Solidarity with African food sovereignty movement

AUGUST: Future/Paths Forward
Topics: Just Transition, Climate Justice, Movement-Building
Highlighted CAGJ Campaign: Solidarity with NW tribes in opposition to GE Salmon

JUNE – Past | Laying Groundwork & Foundations

1 – FOUNDATIONAL

• READ:
  • Declaration of Nyéléni, 2007 (7 min)
  • Food First Matrix (5 min)
  • Six Pillars of Food Sovereignty, Nyéléni 2007 (4 min)
  • Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang [Excerpts: ‘Intro’ (pp. 2-4) and ‘Moves to innocence’​ parts​ IV​, V, VI​ ​(pp. 19 – 28​)] ​ (30 min)
  • Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, [pp. 19-23] (17 min)
  • Towards a People’s Agroecology by Blain Snipstal, WhyHunger (9 min)
  • The Ten Elements of Agroecology, FAO (10 min)
• WATCH:
  • TEDxTC – Winona LaDuke – Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life (17 min)
  • Vandana Shiva on the Real Cause of World Hunger (4 min)

SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN FOCUS: FARMWORKERS

• LISTEN: Are Their Apples Worth More Than Our Lives, May 2020 | NW Public Broadcasting article on Eastern WA fruit worker strikes. [Browse photos and listen to story] (4 min)
  
• BROWSE: Visual Companion: Reflections from weeks at the Yakima Valley Farmworker and warehouse worker strikes, Community to Community | May 24, 2020 [Accompanying podcast episode in supplemental section] (15 min)
• WATCH: Food Sovereignty and Justice for Farm Workers in Washington State, US Food Sovereignty Alliance (3 min)

• READ:

• • A New Farm Worker Union Is Born by David Bacon, American Prospect (2017) (10 min)
  • Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States (2013 edition), Southern Poverty Law Center [Parts 1, 2, 4, 9, and 11]) (35 min)

2 – SUPPLEMENTAL

• WATCH: “Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty” | Leah Penniman (1 hr)
• LISTEN: The Secret Ingredient Podcast: The Peasantry with Blain Snipstal (55 min)
• READ:
  • Dismantling Racism in the Food System, Food First (17 min)
  • Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in USA, Nyéléni Newsletter (25 min)
  • Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson (40 min)
  • Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating by Dr. Linda Alvarez (20 min)
  • What’s in a Social Justice Diet by Ray Levy-Uyeda (10 min)

SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN FOCUS: FARMWORKERS

• LISTEN: Community Voz: Reflections from Weeks at the Strikes | Community to Community’s ecofeminist radio show presents the grassroots work that local people are doing across intersecting movements. (1 hr)
• READ: Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States (2013 edition), from Southern Poverty Law Center [Full report] (2 hrs)

3 – DEEP DIVE

• WATCH:

  • Globalize Hope: New film on the history of La Via Campesina (1hr 13min)

  • Blain Snipstal on Food Sovereignty,  Land and Power (9 min)
• BROWSE:

  • Indigenous Foodways Series, Civil Eats

  • Product of Mexico: Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for U.S. tables, 2014 Los Angeles Times article, photo essay and video on labor abuse in Mexico
• READ:
  • Free the Land, and Us, Too! Agroecology and Popular Struggle: Building an ‘Agrarian’ Intersectional Movement by Blain Snipstal
  • Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to Food, UN Human Rights Council, Olivier De Schutter, 2010 [pp. 6-15, Points A-E] (25 min)