Rabbi Noam Marans & Nick Cannon, with the American Jewish Committee: https://www.facebook.com/AJCGlobal/videos/1355781951293363/

Green Willow Homestead writes,

' This last week has shown us how deeply out of touch and silent many of our figureheads are when it comes to racial inequalities and civil rights issues.❌

Instead of yet another white voice weighing in on regenerative agriculture, we had Chris Newman of Sylvanaqua Farms on the Positively Green Podcast to talk with us about where our clean food movement keeps getting it wrong.⚠️

A member of the Choptico Band of Piscataway Indians, Chris places a heavy emphasis on:
1️⃣The indigenous ethics, values, and knowledge serving as the (often unacknowledged) foundation of the modern permaculture movement
2️⃣The decolonized worldview necessary to ensure the sustainable stewardship of natural resources.

In this episode we cover:
🔸Chris’ farming journey and how Sylvanaqua Farms came to be�
🔸Common issues with small farming practices for farmers, consumers, ecosystems, and the food system in general�
🔸What “democratizing agriculture” means and how it’s different than the model most small farms are using today�
🔸The issue with the notion that all beef should be grass-fed and grass-finished or that all livestock must be farmed regeneratively for its entire life�
🔸The presence of environmental racism, inequality, and what it means to be “Thunberged”�
🔸Books and resources to learn more about environmental racism�
🔸Why conscious consumers can’t just “zero waste” their way into a climate-change-free future
�🔸What we can do to be an active part of an environmentally-sound future�
🔸Chris’ vision for the future of Sylvanaqua Farms

If you give this episode a listen and glean something from it, use Chris’ thoughts and words in your own conversations, or allow it help you grow - 💵THEN PAY CHRIS 💵for his tireless efforts in educating you through this episode and on his IG account. His Venmo is @sylvanaquafarms.💸

https://www.greenwillowhomestead.com/blog/episode-32-where-regenerative-agriculture-gets-it-wrong-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-with-chris-newman-of-sylvanaqua-farms '

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=772155806653788&id=231943154008392

' Actor Nick Cannon and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for unity between the Black and Jewish communities in a joint op-ed in The Forward on Aug. 11.

Cannon and Greenblatt wrote that there has been a rise in hate overall, citing “anti-Black prejudice” in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, a spike in anti-Semitic incidents nationwide in 2019 as well as a rise in anti-Asian incidents since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Racism isn’t just a problem for Black Americans; it’s my problem as a white Jewish man,” they wrote. “And anti-Semitism isn’t just a problem for American Jews; it’s my problem as a non-Jewish Black man. And yet, today, the Black and Jewish communities don’t always seem to stand together.”

Cannon and Greenblatt noted that the ADL and various other Jewish groups have had long partnerships with civil rights groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and that Jews marched with civil rights leaders in Selma, Ala., in 1965. However, the relationship between the two communities has eroded over the years because of differing “collective interests” and “loud voices on the fringes.”

“This needs to change,” they wrote. “Now.”

The two men suggested that the best way to do is for individuals to start taking responsibility when advancing stereotypes, even if it’s unintentional.

“It continues by advancing an agenda of learning, so we study and come to understand our respective histories so we can be better allies to each other,” Cannon and Greenblatt wrote. “And it is sustained by accelerating efforts to collaborate, even when it’s uncomfortable, so we can create authentic change that uplifts everyone because we cannot be free until everyone is free." '

https://jewishjournal.com/featured/320258/nick-cannon-adl-call-for-unity-between-black-and-jewish-communities-in-joint-op-ed

First- I’m so proud of everyone who sent comments or spoke today. I know we did all we can and we’ll sleep with a clean conscience tonight. They voted unanimously to support NASA’s loophole to get out of the cleanup. We’re going to continue to fight until every single child (in our community and the Native American community) are safe from thr SSFL contamination, even if we have to tear down the mountains with our bare hands.
https://www.facebook.com/PARENTSvsSSFL/videos/688371245226444/

This is a deeper dive explaining how NASA is trying to exempt the entire SSFL from cleanup https://www.enviroreporter.com/2020/08/nasas-last-stand
https://www.facebook.com/1319755658105771/posts/3204554139625904/

Today the term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered white in the United States. During various periods in US history, persons of color included African Americans, Latino Americans, Italian Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, and multiracial Americans.[citation needed] The term emphasizes common experiences of systemic racism. The term may also be used with other collective categories of people such as "communities of color", "men of color" (MOC), and "women of color" (WOC). The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

Middle Eastern Americans are Americans with ancestry, origins, or citizenship from the Middle East. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "Middle Eastern American" applies to anyone of Western Asian and North African extraction.
This definition includes both indigenous Middle Eastern groups in diaspora (e.g. the Jewish diaspora, Kurdish Americans, Assyrian Americans, etc.) and current immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab League, Iran, Israel and Turkey. Middle Eastern communities have been settling in America since at least the Dutch colonial period of New Amsterdam, when Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil found refuge there in 1654.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_Americans

Canaanite peoples
Jews (Yehudim): along with Samaritans, belong to the Israelite nation of the southern Levant, who are believed by archaeologists and historians to have branched out of the Canaanite peoples and culture through the development of a distinct monolatrous—and later monotheistic—religion centered on El/Yahweh, one of the Ancient Canaanite deities. Following the Roman colonial occupation, destruction of Herod's Temple, and failed Jewish revolts, most Jews were either expelled, taken as slaves to Rome, or massacred, although a small number of Jews managed to remain over the centuries despite persecution by the various conquerors of the region, including the Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, and the British. Additionally, a substantial number of Jews returned from diaspora during the 19th and 20th centuries (mainly under the Zionist movement), as well as after the modern State of Israel was established in 1948. This was coupled with the revival of Hebrew, the only Canaanite language still spoken today. DNA studies show that all major diaspora Jewish communities, with the exception of Ethiopian and Yemenite Jews, derive the majority of their ancestry from ancient Israelites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indigenous_peoples

UCLA SWANA Resolution.pdf

Re: personas racializadas. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/09/803809670/why-labeling-antonio-banderas-a-person-of-color-triggers-such-a-backlash

We should not shame native people who aren’t full blooded when many of our populations were annihilated to the point where we had to marry outside of our tribe just to continue on genetically. You can’t marry your cousin. And when 20,000 people are reduced to 400, we literally have to marry outside if we want to survive as a people.
We should not shame them for “only” having oral history about who they are, especially for southern tribes where the kkk was killing natives as much as anyone else. We had to hide our identity and information was often passed to kids on the down low, if at all. We were getting hunted so often that we sometimes married white people so that our children could simply LIVE.
And yes you may marry a Korean, whose people were forced to speak Japanese in school after being brutally colonized by them. Sound familiar? We understand each other. We must band together and create genetic diversity and celebrate that diversity. Purity concepts are a slippery slope. Don’t want to end up like the royal families who have married their own blood and aren’t all there in the head. Get that hybrid vigor 🙂
I stand by you sister Linda Black Elk and all those getting called out as “pretendians”. Shadí, Jaqueline, I have a lot of love for you sister, and this practice needs to stop. I wholeheartedly believe in your ability to refocus on important issues as you have in the past. Your passion and skills are greatly needed today and every day in many areas.
But today, and everyday, I stand by the oral history we carry passed down from our ancestors. We do not need to police who is Indian and who isn’t. The government is doing this to us already, we don’t need to do it to each other.
I have a Certificate of Indian Blood that says I’m 1/2 Diné. You know what else get certificates like that from (usually) white men? Dogs and horses.
The US Government created a political entity called the “Navajo Nation” and this entity has a law that anyone less than 1/8 pedigree is no longer Diné. This is a sick kind of colonial, entitled erasure of a people.
If I don’t marry a Diné man, my children will be 1/4. If they don’t marry a Diné, their children will be 1/8, and then their’s will be 1/16, or “not technically Diné”.
In this country, native people are only allowed to enroll in one tribe, even if they descend from multiple tribes. So if I were to marry a Lakota man for instance, my children would still be “1/4 indian” by these laws.
And then what would my great grandchildren have to “prove” their nativeness? They would have oral history as we always have.
The Catawba suffered extreme degradation and genocide, to the point where they are nearly gone. I repeat, genocide. But now the US Government doesn’t have to erase us. We will do it to each other. Let’s focus on the real task at hand: building our communities and supporting those who truly support them, such as Linda and many others.
At the same time, people who are European and native (like me) still carry white privilege and we may even carry some of our ancestors’ bad habits like exploiting things for our own gain. It would be good for us to be brave enough to examine this. We also receive different treatment from the world than our more melanated brothers and sisters. We need to place this privilege in complete service of native communities, not the other way around. We don’t share their experience and we never will. This is okay. We have our own experience to bring to the table and we bring helpful things from many directions. We don’t know their pain in the same way, however, and thus it is good to be humble as we claim our indigeneity. We can then work to build bridges based on patience, generosity and respect.
I stand by you sis and I honor indigenous oral history above government papers 🙏🏽❤️📄🗑
https://www.facebook.com/1573085966331988/posts/2354553481518562/

Air pollution is much worse than we thought

Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.

"Importantly, many of the benefits can be accessed in the near term. Right now, air pollution leads to almost 250,000 premature deaths a year in the US. Within a decade, aggressive decarbonization could reduce that toll by 40 percent; over 20 years, it could save around 1.4 million American lives that would otherwise be lost to air quality.

[...]

The air quality benefits arrive much sooner than the climate benefits. They are, at least for the next several decades, much larger. They can be secured without the cooperation of other countries. And, by generating an average of $700 billion a year in avoided health and labor costs, they will more than pay for the energy transition on their own. Climate change or no climate change, it’s worth ditching fossil fuels.

And if this is true in the US — which, after all, has comparatively clean air — it is true tenfold for countries like China and India, where air quality remains abysmal. A Lancet Commission study in 2017 found that in 2015, air pollution killed 1.81 million people in India and 1.58 million in China."

How to Make a Revolution from our favourite Starhawk: https://www.facebook.com/324715135867/posts/10157624889740868/?substory_index=0