Please note: this event will be held in person at Tramway.
The combined climate and fiscal crises are devastating ecologies and economies globally, especially in the Global South, while protecting the Global North's wealth and its practices of colonial plunder.
Join Dee Woods, Josina Calliste / LION, Kwame Amoah-Boateng, and Col Gordon in this panel discussion to look at how climate reparations seeks to chart another path.
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About the panelists:
Dee Woods wears many headwraps including being a director and the food justice policy coordinator of the Landworkers Alliance, a member of the LION collective and co-founder of the African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen. Food action~ist /Afroecologist\earth wisdom keeper, they are an award winning food system leader. A passionate knowledge broker, ideator, pollinator and weaver who advocates for good food for all and a just food system. Her work meets at the nexus of human rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, community, policy, decolonial research, reparations, culture, climate and social justice.
Col Gordon is a cook and researcher who's based near his farmily's farm in the Gàidhealtachd, where he grows heritage grains and helps his father raise livestock. In co-produced and narrated the well received podcast mini-series Landed with Farmerama, whih looked at the past, present and future of the family farm through the lens of colonisation.
Kwame Amoah-Boateng is a trans-disciplinary researcher, facilitator, and educator, currently caring out his PhD at the University of Glasgow. His research looks towards Black and decolonial ecologies to explore the extractive relationships between mining and palm plantations in Ghana, and the various methods of community resistance deployed for social and ecological justice.
Josina Calliste found her way to the land through community organising & food growing. Six years ago, sat under an apple tree, she co-founded Land in Our Names (LION) to address racial justice inequalities around farming and growing food in Britain. She co-wrote a book chapter on land in "A World Without Racism" anthology published last year. Still in the early years of caring for the first LION cub, she combines writing, food growing and singing circles with a merry ascent towards the Old Lady “village herbalist witch" state of being.
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