This event promises to be an experience in creating new cultures. Cultures centered around sustainable practices, healthy eating, and reclamation of traditional knowledge of food production and earth-based well-being. Cultures rooted in community consciousness, creative expression, music, and skill-sharing. Community Services Unlimited Inc. has been doing this sort of grassroots food justice organizing for more than 20 years. In fact, CSU Inc was initially a project of the Black Panther Party, but has since evolved into an independent non-profit.
Now, more than ever, the crisis of the food system is garnering national and local attention from policy makers and community residents alike. While “food justice” has been an important part of environmental justice struggles, community-based initiatives and academic papers for several decades, it feels like a movement is starting to coalesce nationally. Props belong to organizations like CSU Inc who have been in the trenches dreaming and fighting for a fair and sustainable food system since before Michael Pollan and Alice Waters drew national attention to where our food comes from.
