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<\/a><\/p>\nOur Leadership Group, which we kicked off with ioby.org<\/a> this fall, has been steadily moving forward. A core group of leaders has been meeting\u00a0regularly since then, planning an Orientation for this spring, where we will invite all members of the community to join the Leadership Group and work on food justice issues together. Over the past few months\u00a0we have collectively planned what we want the Orientation to cover and who we are inviting to help us facilitate it.We have also been discussing why neighborhoods with mostly low income people and people of color are often denied access to healthy food, and we collectively defined terms such as “capitalism”, “grocery store redlining”, “culture”, and “oppression” using an activity from\u00a0Decolonize\u00a0Your Diet<\/a>\u00a0(photos above). We will move into this work with the knowledge that residents are the experts on their own community, and the intention to center the voices of those most affected by food apartheid<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Orientation will take place on Saturday, March 4 at New Settlement Community Center<\/a>. We are excited to set off on this journey.\u00a0Stay tuned for more details!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nVIDEO: Cooking with Violeta & Aaleyah<\/h2>\n