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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2015 15:41:14 GMT
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Post by evangirard on Feb 28, 2015 0:02:52 GMT
Hello all!
My name is Evan Girard, and I am a UNH alum ('14).
My main interests lie in the socioeconomic and sociocultural aspects of the food system, mainly community ownership of the commons and cooperative enterprise. As a recent transplant to Burlington, VT, I am in the most culturally vibrant and diverse place that I've ever lived, and it's been such an enriching experience, thus far.
My day-to-day is spent as an AmeriCorps with the Champlain Housing Trust, a pioneering community land trust. Many of the folks that I work with are New Americans, and I'm learning much about the challenges they have to overcome. I will never truly understand what they've experienced as refugees, but there is much work to be done in building a welcoming and supportive community.
Did you know that the first community land trust was a 5,000 acre farm in Georgia intended to secure access for African American farmers?
I am so grateful for and looking forward to the opportunity to participate in the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge. Many thanks to the Food Solutions New England team for making racial equity a primary focus.
Looking back on my archive of documents, I re-found Building the Case for Racial Equity in the Food System by Anthony Giancatarino and Simran Noor of the Center for Social Inclusion. You may located a PDF of it with a quick Google search.
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Post by el on Mar 2, 2015 18:28:46 GMT
Hey Evan! Great to see you here! Thanks for taking the challenge! El
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Post by refj on Mar 9, 2015 1:39:02 GMT
Lifting up the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, one of the most seminal events in our nation's history!
"Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense, power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
On March 7, 1965, what has become known as "Bloody Sunday", police beat and teargassed marchers at the foot of the Edmund Pettis Bridge in a spasm of violence that shocked the nation. That was power at its worst! What happened later, with President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was power at is best!
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