TACTICS FOR BUILDING
BLACK FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Now that you've gained an understanding of critical historical contexts, food movement terms, and the integral pillars of self-determination, self-determining food economies, and Black Land and Power, you may be wondering how exactly this work is done.
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The National Black Food & Justice Alliance uses three overarching strategies in building collective power and food sovereignty in Black communities: internal organizing (organizing within the Alliance), community organizing (organizing in Black farming and food communities), and external organizing (organizing to advance food movement political agendas at local, state, and federal levels).
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Explore the next three sections to learn the specific tactics, and their definitions, that bolster these organizing strategies.
Internal Organizing
Collective Governance
NBFJA Co-Executive Director Dr. Jasmine Jackson and Black Land and Power Director Kenya Crumel explain and define Collective Governance and its significance at the Alliance.
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Dr. Jasmine Jackson
Kenya Crumel
Work Groups
NBFJA Field Coordinator Alexis
McKenney and Co-Executive
Director Cicely Garrett explain
and define Works Groups and their pivotal function in the Alliance.
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Alexis McKenney
Cicely Garrett
Community Organizing
(click the side arrows to learn about these terms)
Campaign
Cooperative
Model
Resource
Building
Land Trusts
Land
Stewardship
External Organizing
Policy and Political Organizing
NBFJA Co-Founders Dara Cooper and Baba Malik Yakini contextualize the meaning of Policy, Political Organizing, and the necessity of driving our own political agendas.
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External Organizing
External Organizing
Dara Cooper
Malik Yakini
VISION FOR THE FUTURE:
BUILDING RESOURCE COMMONS AND PROTECTING THEM
The Jackson-Kush Plan defines the Commons as "the resources of the earth that everyone is dependent upon and must utilize to survive and thrive. The essential 'Commons' are land, water, and air."
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In building toward self-determining food economies, Black Land and Power, and self-determination for Black people, the National Black Food & Justice Alliance seeks community control of the "essential Commons" via the creation of Resource Commons, Black land spaces where communities sovereignly sustain themselves without threat.
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NBFJA staff members provide further context, explore the intentions of Resource Commons, and explain how to prevent their downfall.
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REVIEW
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