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Garrett BroadAssistant Professor – Fordham University
Department of Communication & Media StudiesPresentation at Cabrini University – Child Health Forum
February 17, 2017
Food Justice in the Age of Trump
Food Deserts (Or Swamps), Obesity, and Food Movements
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Food Deserts (Or Swamps), Obesity, and Food Movements
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"The prescription for the cure rests with the accurate diagnosis of the disease."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
What’s the Problem?
Global and Local Food Systems:Abundance and Injustice
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Global and Local Food Systems:Abundance and Injustice
Global and Local Food Systems:Abundance and Injustice
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Global and Local Food Systems:Abundance and Injustice
"The prescription for the cure rests with the accurate diagnosis of the disease."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
What’s the Problem?
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Food Justice in the Age of Trump
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Food Justice in the Age of Trump
Food Justice Networks and Narratives
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1. Community-based collaboration.
2. A theory of change and a broader vision of justice.
3. Programmatic and fiscal sustainability.
4. Capacity for large-scale transformation.
Assessing Community Food Activism:Working Principles for Sustainable Change
“Our mission is to foster the creation of communities actively
working to address the inequalities and systemic barriers that make sustainable communities and self-reliant life-styles
unattainable. We are committed to supporting and creating justice-driven community-based programs and educational initiatives, which
seek to foster dialogue, and create awareness and critical consciousness.”
Community Services Unlimited, Inc.
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“A 360 Approach”Community Food Assessment
Growing Healthy Food-Based LearningFrom the Ground Up Youth Internships
Garden Gateway Community WorkshopsVillage Market Place Social Enterprise
Earth Day South LA FestivalsSustainable Transport Collective
Community Services Unlimited, Inc.Building Critical Consciousness and
Community Institutions
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
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“Food serves a double purpose, providing sustenance but also functioning as an
organizing tool; people enter the office when they come by, take some leaflets, sit in on an elementary political education class, talk to
cadre, and exchange ideas.”—David Hilliard, Chief of Staff,
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party
Rooted in Community: A Youth Food Justice Network
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Rooted in Community: A Youth Food Justice Network
Food Justice and the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
“The more money, the bigger the players…That becomes more of an issue.”
– Heather, Associate Director, CSU
“The people who are already getting media coverage are getting more media coverage.”
– Maya, RIC Youth Organizer
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American Heart Association Teaching Gardens
“Our hope is that by teaching kids where vegetables come from and the benefits of healthy eating, we can inspire change and reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity
in this country.”— Ralph Sacco, MD
American Heart Association President
American Heart Association Teaching Gardens
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American Heart Association Teaching Gardens
Voices from the Grassroots
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Voices from the Grassroots
“I got kids in India calling themselves gangsta gardeners. I got kids in Baltimore
talking about planting green roofs. I’m a mouthpiece for this process, not just in my
little piece of the world, but for the whole world...My vision is world domination”
— Ron Finley
No Magic Carrots
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1. Community-based collaboration.
2. A theory of change and a broader vision of justice.
3. Programmatic and fiscal sustainability.
4. Capacity for large-scale transformation.
Assessing Community Food Activism:Working Principles for Sustainable Change
Food Justice in the Age of Trump
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Food Justice in the Age of Trump
“We’ve always been involved in food, because food is a very basic necessity, and it’s the stuff that
revolutions are made of.”– David Hilliard,
Former Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party
Food Justice in the Age of Trump
