Environmental for Food Justice

Moderator’s Note: The environmental and food justice movements have a tradition of critical self-study among activists who collaborate on learning how to remain mindfully engaged through an examination of the connection between self and the world. It is well established that people of color suffer disparate harm from the discriminatory maldistribution of environmental risks and access to ecological amenities like open space, clean air and water; safe food and soil;  think: Flint, Michigan and Standing Rock. Our work to heal our bodies is therefore always also the work of restoring balance to lived environments unjustly rendered unsafe and hazardous. This lack of balance is more than a matter of individual choices; only a privileged person can safely make that assumption. The imbalance is instead the by-product of powerful political and ultimately capitalist economic and legal forces endlessly perpetrating acts of structural violence in the places where we live, work, play, eat, ...