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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

147) Ending settler colonialism to reclaim food justice and sovereignty with Rosalinda Guillen

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rosalinda Guillen is a recognized farm worker and rural justice leader. She's also the Executive Director of Community to Community (C2C), a women-of-color led, grassroots organization redefining power in order to end settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.

Fueled by inspiration from her parents growing up and fed up with the systemic oppression in our food system, Rosalinda is working to build support for rural communities and sustainable agriculture policies that ensure equity and healthy communities for farm workers.

On this podcast episode, Rosalinda sheds light on how settler colonialism continues to play out in our food system today; how the lack of work authorization for undocumented farm workers—which make up 48%-70% (or more) of our total number of farm workers in the U.S.—impacts labor standards; how food justice is related to immigration issues; and more.

 

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podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

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considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

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donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

0:54.0

If you're buying food that is cheap, then you are eating exploitation,

1:01.0

both to the farm workers and to Mother Earth.

1:04.2

There is no way to produce healthy food for the price that most of it is being sold.

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What is settler colonialism and how does it manifest in our food system?

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How does the lack of work authorization for a large number of undocumented farm workers

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impact their ability to speak up against oppression for their labor rights, and also for their

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firsthand observations on the true conditions of our farmlands that they work with every day.

1:34.9

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today.

1:38.1

Green Dreamer is supported by our listener patrons and buns, a community where people meet every

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day to trade things like clothing,

1:45.1

houseplants, furniture, and art. You can check it out first by downloading the app Buns, that's

1:50.2

about B-U-N-Z on your smartphone, and I'll tell you more later. For now to our conversation with

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Rosalinda Guillain, a widely recognized farm worker and rural justice leader, and the executive director of

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