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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Episode 598: The Rise of Black Veganism ft. Omowale Adewale

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Black VegFest founder Omowale Adewale back to the podcast this week! A passionate social justice activist fighting for the liberation of all beings, Omowale discusses food accessibility and why he believes we are at a critical moment in helping Black communities gain access to healthy produce at a low cost. He explains how he…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House.

0:08.6

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:09.9

And this is Jasmine Singer.

0:11.6

Thank you so much for joining us this week.

0:13.8

Jasmine's guest, Oma Wolle, Adewale, who is not only the founder of Black Fitchfist,

0:19.4

a kickboxer, a boxer, but also the editor of the

0:22.6

very recently published Brother Vegan, which brings together the stories of black vegan men.

0:28.1

I'm excited about this interview.

0:30.9

Yeah, you should be.

0:32.5

We could have spoken forever.

0:34.8

And we both have a copy of this book book and we both love it. So I love

0:39.2

chatting with Omo Welle. And I am so excited about sharing it with everyone today. And on this

0:45.1

week's flock bonus segment, I'll be continuing my conversation with him. As always,

0:49.2

if you are a flock member, you will get a link to the bonus segment in your email on the

0:53.1

Tuesday after this podcast episode goes up. Or you can always find it on the flock Facebook group. And if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate. And don't forget to join us for the first flock Friday Zoom calls, which are once month on the first Friday of the month at 4 p.m. Eastern or 8 p.m.

1:12.4

Greenwich Mean Time, where we invite former podcast guests and we talk about our activism and we

1:18.8

support each other really in becoming better advocates and also just dealing with any personal

1:24.8

issues that are coming up regarding our activism or

1:28.0

our veganism. So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for updates

1:32.3

or write to us at info at our henhouse.org. You can also set up one-on-ones with me as well.

1:38.6

I've been enjoying doing those weekly, getting to know some of you better. So if you want to

1:44.0

discuss your activism or if you want to

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