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Growing
Food and Justice For All
Growing
Power-
Chicago
3333
S. Iron St.
Chicago, IL 60608
December
7th- 9th, 2012
Intensive Leadership Facilitation Training
(ILFT)
Designed
to build a
community of leaders and provide intensive training and dialogue for
participants to facilitate anti-racist food justice trainings in their
own
regions/communities. We use the title Facilitator instead of Organizer
very
intentionally, and will discuss the long term development process that
anti-racism work requires as well as the need for leadership
development and
empowerment.
We hope
empowered
individuals will return to their home community of practice and
facilitate and
create spaces to connect and develop a supportive local and
national/international community to exchange ideas, strategies and
continue
training in anti-racism to specifically address how achieving food
justice can
lead to the end of systemic and institutional racism.
Participants
will
experience: a series of farming activities that explore how to build a
just
food system, identify barriers to achieving justice and equity,
historical
challenges and community building at Growing Power’s Iron St.
Facility. This
will be followed with a day of two tracks to process the experience and
delve
into dialogues and interpersonal learning of anti-racism principles and
strategies, concluding with an introduction and invitation to begin a
chapter
or local empowerment group (LEG).
We will
explore:
(1) Examples of
institutional and structural racism and how it operates, also how to
address,
challenge and change it!
(2) Practical
applications of facilitating change and becoming a change agent,
including some
personal identification to understand the kind of facilitator you are.
(3) Opportunity to
explore individual role in the anti-racism process of your work with
the
opportunity to strategize with others to develop an action plan for
next steps
that can be put into motion upon your return to home.
****** Please come
prepared to get your hands dirty! Leave your dress shoes at home and
wear your
comfortable, farmer duds. We will be working outside and in our
conference/office area. Feel free to bring a pair of indoor shoes, to
change
into after being outside.
Overview
at
Chicago’s Iron St. Farm
Day
1, Friday,
December 7th 1pm - 6pm:
Dinner 5pm-7pm
Opening
food,
culture and spirit activity and art creation.
We will explore a
deeper understanding of how racism and other forms of oppression
express
themselves in our society and food system work.
We will
briefly
touch on the shared terminology and understanding behind the ideology
of structural
racism and oppression, and will then work on strategies to begin
healing work
and developing action plans.
Expect both the
breaking down of terminology and opportunities to have icebreaking
dialogues
with fellow ILFT participants on this first session.
Day 2, December
8th
9am - 6pm
Dinner from
5:00-6:00PM
9am-12pm:
Building a
Community Food System Activity
We will identify
some of the race and power dynamics at play when we are building a
community
food system through a role playing activity. We will work together on
the farm,
in a manner that will challenge our perceptions and will serve as a
springboard
for discussions and strategies throughout the day.
1pm
– 5pm Discussion
and small group strategy
Day 3, Sunday
December 9th 9am – 1pm
We will
continue
discussion of local practice and implementation and agree on a National
strategy building platform for the future.
Lunch
12pm-1pm
For
more information
visit Growing
Food and
Justice for All website.
The
Growing Food and
Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) is hosted by Growing Power, Inc.
Support our work. Make a donation to
Growing Food and Justice for All today!
History and Scope of GFJI
The organizing of the GFJI reflects the need for
innovative and genuine leadership in the development of a sustainable,
community-based food systems movement. The
founding members of the initiative are the practitioners of sustainable
food systems work: mainly farmers, marketers and other workers who are
building new, local systems. Some are
familiar with coalition and advocacy work at the national and
international levels, while others are new to large-scale initiatives.
This initiative strives to outreach to other parallel social justice
movements and build solidarity and multidisciplinary support, in the
tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of building
“Beloved Community”.
The principal objective of the GFJI Initiative network
is to create support for the local work that is already underway
throughout North America, employing a from-the-ground-up strategy to
build power for broad food systems change across the world.
Vision - To work together
with a shared vision of dismantling racism via network building, shared
leadership, economic growth and community food systems :
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Every neighborhood in low-income communities and
communities of color has full access to fresh, healthy, local,
affordable, culturally appropriate food every day through a variety of
retail channels ranging from farmer’s markets to locally-owned
small corner stores and supermarkets.
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In every neighborhood in low-income communities and
communities of color the residents of the neighborhood own and operate
the small businesses that produce, distribute and sell the fresh,
healthy food consumed in the neighborhood.
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Through ownership and operation of the local food
system, every neighborhood in low-income communities and communities of
color provides opportunity for its children to develop business skills
and leadership capacity offering hope that each child, every family and
the community itself can achieve its self-determined destiny.
List of committees
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Fundraising: Listing
potential sources of funds, planning which funders to approach, grant
writing, etc.
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Membership/Partnership/Outreach:
Developing a membership/partnership policy, setting fees for
membership, making sure that our efforts can reach all people
interested in dismantling racism (and other related "isms") in a
sustainable and socially just food system, etc.
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Communications:
Develop website, do surveys, work closely with other committees
(particularly Education) to have relevant and up-to-date materials
available for the purpose of dismantling racism in a sustainable and
socially just food system, etc.
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Conference/dismantling
racism/training of trainers (TOT): Developing conference
scenario and logistics, developing dismantling racism trainings at all
levels, developing a training of trainers program so that the
initiative has well qualified trainers in all geographical areas that
might require them, etc.
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Education: Developing
and making easily accessible any material that relates to the mission
and vision of the initiative, working closely with the Communications
committee, etc.
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