Fwd: We believe in the power of storytelling.

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From: "A Growing Culture" <agrowingculture@gmail.com>

Subject: We believe in the power of storytelling.

Date: November 24, 2021 at 3:41:48 PM EST

To: "rafé”

Reply-To: josh@agrowingculture.org

Our beliefs, our institutions, and our systems are all rooted in stories. The concepts of human rights, law, economics, statehood, rely on our collective agreement that they're true and important. It's time we recognized the power of our collective imagination — our power to reshape societies using our capacity to imagine new worlds into existence. Today, we face a crisis of imagination. We can't imagine a world without capitalism. Without the commodification of nearly every facet of our lives. It's not that we lack the facts to convince us of the errors of these structures. It's that we haven't been able to see something beyond them. We are in dire need of new stories. To move forward, we must pour our energy into imagining new worlds. A world where our food system is designed to feed people, not accumulate capital. Where we commune with Earth, not extract from it. One where those who grow our food are valued, not exploited. We see food sovereignty as a story that can unite us in radical re-imagination. Through storytelling, building collective understanding, and driving resources to peasant and Indigenous groups actively leading us to food sovereignty, we move closer towards this radical vision.   IMAGINE WITH US

A Growing Culture was founded to celebrate the culture in agriculture — to center the peasant and Indigenous voices who are actively reimagining our food system. The missing piece is not more data to prove what farming practices feed the world. The missing piece is our ability to see how interconnected we all are. How our liberation is tied to those growing food thousands of miles away. Food sovereignty is a movement rooted in that interconnection.   SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT

Our storytelling centers the root causes of injustice in our food system and invites wider audiences to recognize our shared struggle for liberation. Our platforms and our stories are always open-source, to be shared and circulated for the growth of the food sovereignty movement. You can easily access these stories through our Food Sovereignty 101 guide.

UNDERSTAND OUR HISTORY TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE   READ   WHY THERE IS NO FOOD SECURITY WITHOUT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY   READ

THE CORPORATE PUSH FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT FARMERS   READ     IF WE SEED MORE JUST SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY WILL FOLLOW   READ   HOW SEPARATING CULTURE FROM AGRICULTURE HARMS US ALL   READ     TRACING THE COMMON ROOTS OF OUR UNJUST SYSTEMS   READ

We believe that knowledge should not be gate-kept, so we offer all of our work for free. Because of this, we depend on your support to keep telling these stories. If you believe that another world is possible, support us. In solidarity, A Growing Culture   DONATE   If you are a part of a community, or have a platform to support us, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch at: margarita@agrowingculture.org

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