Focus Areas | NESAWG

Weaving the fabric to build local and regional power

• Conference Partnerships
• Community Gatherings
• Farmers Circles
• Regional and Place-Based Working Groups
• MapJam
• Partnerships and Collaborations; collaborate to co-liberate

BUILDING THE NEW 

Building a model that is regenerative, scalable, replicable, healing, equitable, and sustainable to ensure Food Sovereignty & Food Security; a farm and food systems change rooted in love.

• Effecting a racial equity transformation of the farm and food system in the Northeast Region
• Transitioning from an extractive to a regenerative economy
  • Just Transition Strategies
  • Supporting a Solidarity Economy
  • Mutual Aid
• Centering Voices of Color and Leadership of Color
• Lifting Native Ancestral wisdom 
• Education
  • Sankofa Series
  • Popular Education for Grassroots Organizing
  • Technology for Grassroots Organizing
  • Technical Assistance & Support
• Working Groups; Leadership Development

 

STOPPING THE BAD

As we build the new, we inherently stop the bad.

• Analyzing & Shifting Power Structures
• Land Tenure; Succession Planning; Land Rematriation

 

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE

Changing the collective perception and understanding; telling the true history and story of our People of Color

• Shifting culture and world view
• Sharing our culture, roots, identities, traditions & history
• Storytelling & Storymaking 
  • Stories from our Kitchen Table
  • Stories from the Field
• Blogs & Vlogs; spotlights

CHANGING THE RULES

• Policy Advocacy (Federal, regional, state levels)
  • Mother Earth Rights & Grandfather Ocean Rights: Personhood Status
  • Farm Bill
  • Right To Food
  • Regional & State Strategies and Plans

 

MOVING THE MONEY

Moving the money from corporate wealth to community wealth

• Co-op Business Development
• Resourcing the Movement