Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice -
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast - a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism and make repair. This innovative project combines restorative economics, regenerative agriculture, and asset ownership as the path to address the harm done to Black farmers, and the environmentally harmful methods of rice production. In this exclusive report from The Laura Flanders Show, Laura Flanders reports on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana, where she meets Jubilee Justice Co-Founder and President Konda Mason, veteran civil rights crusader Shirley Sherrod and the Black farmers at the center of this story. Through knowledge sharing, collaboration and community support, this project endeavors to bridge the racial divide and foster a future rooted in justice and healing. Join us to discover how Jubilee Justice helps repair the damage from long-term racism and plant the seeds for a healthful and healing future. "Restorative economics calls on us to first acknowledge the hurt and structural harm caused by economic systems of extraction and exploitation. It then requires us to engage in a conversation about repair." - Nwamaka Agbo "My goal is to not just grow organically and to be regenerative but to do it in a way that's affordable so that everybody has access. Everybody has a right to good, nutritious food." - Donna Isaac "How can we balance all of the farming principles that we want to hold on to? How can we build soil health? How can we have a productive mill? That's the mission." - Myles Gaines "As Black farmers, we rarely own the land... And we are completely dependent upon a third party to say yes to my crop... What that mill represents is a vertical integration of their crop from growing it to milling it, to distribut

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 415

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