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Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?
This is a short editorial-type article on the relationship between urban agriculture, community gardens, and gentrification. The author is a white urban farmer working in Detroit, critical of his own...
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Forgotten Place and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning – Ruth Wilson Gilmore
This is a great article, for several reasons. It’s from a book called Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship, available free online. Gilmore weaves together...
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Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems
Morales, Alfonso. “Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism Through Sustainable Food Systems.” In Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability, 149–176. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011....
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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food...
Katz, Sandor – The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved. White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 2006. I was really impressed with this book. Katz discusses a huge variety of ‘alternative’ food movements,...
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Co-opting the Coop
Kirby, Marianne – Co-opting the Coop – What’s the real cost of homesteading’s new hipness? This article makes a distinction between ongoing homesteading for survival among poor and marginalized...
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Monstrous Settlers: Zombies, Demons, and Angels
I am a monster (but I’m working on it). With the birth and growth of Idle No More, now more than ever, lots of settlers are understanding colonialism as a problem, and trying to think through our...
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thaw presents “Food Not Bombs”
A short interview with a long-time “Food Not Bombs” organizer, explaining the significance of FNB as a global movement. FNB chapters cook food and serve it for free on a regular basis. As Luke...
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Summary: Anarchy without Opposition by Jamie Heckert
How might being “against” systems oppression and domination actually support those systems? How might “being radical” end up distancing radicals from the people they want to be engaging? This is a...
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Summary: amory starr – Grumpywarriorcool
In this accessible, perceptive short essay from Igniting a Revolution, amory starr criticizes what she calls “grumpywarriorcool:” ways of being in activist spaces that are unkind, unfeeling, and...
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Prison abolition meets food justice
In her article, “Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow,” Leah Penniman draws connections between the incarceration of black people, police violence, and the...
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