“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. ”

—Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda & Recife (Brazil), 1909-1999
“The Bishop of the Slums”

“I tried to provide the best food for my son, free of carcinogens and pesticides, but it wasn’t available in my neighborhood. It wasn’t that I couldn’t afford it, it just wasn’t available. We had to travel several miles outside to buy food to make our meals.”

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LaDonna Redmond, a longtime urban farmer from the west side of Chicago and  a senior program associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Redmond is organizing Food + Justice = Democracy, a conference that will bring together communities of color and tribal nations to craft a national food justice platform. 

FILM: Generation Food  

“You have this new yuppie group coming in that is gung ho about urban agriculture … but the movement wasn’t about urban agriculture, it was about survival, taking back our communities,” she says. “Now you have people coming into gardens that have established histories, that were built on the backs of people who made it safe for you to come in, and you’re gonna talk about urban agriculture? You cannot leave out … the history and the legacy of the elders who were there long before so you can do whatever you wanna do.”

—Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?, Grist
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