Liberated Zones
What the Liberated Zones framework guides.
What is - an approach to Black food organizing?
The current controllers of the food system
What is corporate-controlled, big ag?
What is food desert?
The notion of not privatizing nor competing for resources, whereby land, water, and air are equally shared by all.
The antithesis to collective governance
What is - one person making decisions? A hierarchy of decision-making power?
A concerted effort to remove land off of the speculative market and build zones of sovereign community building.
What is a Liberated Zone?
What approach to the food system does NOT take into account power?
What is food access/justice?
What does food apartheid systematically destroy?
What is Black self-determination to control our food?
Black land spaces where communities sovereignly sustain themselves without threat
What is the Resource Commons?
Centering the principles of self-determination in building our collective power, we work to reclaim our economies within the food system.
What is self-determining food economies?
What is - build freedom, sustainably make and/or find food, develop people as the carriers and creators of productivity, culture, wisdom, and technology, evolve life beyond birth, survival, and death, and collectively and determinedly defend what they have made.
Which approach includes the right to define and ultimately control our own food and agriculture systems?
Name practices of food apartheid
What is a hyper-saturation of destructive and unhealthy foods, corporate control over where and what kind of food is distributed?
Contrasts capitalist models of “owning” land, and instead necessitates deep care for and relationship with the land, regardless of its ownership...
What is land stewardship?
When examining our food system's global context, like operating within a capitalist system, what type of power is stripped from every stop in the food chain/system?
What is labor power?
What are NOT necessarily solutions to food apartheid? (Baba Malik)
What is - creating more grocery stores? Growing more food? etc.
A strategic alignment of Black land institutions and organizations working to deepen collective strategy towards regional and national Black land retention, protection, and recovery.
Which term is the Alliance advancing and primarily using?
What is food sovereignty?
Which term does the Alliance center in our current fight against corporate-controlled food?