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If you’re committed to Faith and Justice, we invite you check out the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute (BKI) in the Ventura River Watershed. This is a great place to be in community, and join conversations around reparation practices in your own watersheds. See link in bio for more info!
We are grateful for the work of who has helped to birthed the Radix Storytelling Project.
No access to power means not being able to store your food and not having AC or fans during heatwaves or heaters during the cold. Why are BIPOC & low-income communities being punished for failures of local agencies? Read more about the struggle to in LA by reading ScopeLA’s report on water access for low income Angelenos (link in bio). Follow along as Radix highlights different communities striving for greater access to water!
Water and power are essential to life. Not having access to water and power creates harmful and dangerous conditions to families and even leads to trade-offs— having to choose between rent or food, utilities or transportation.
All Angelenos deserve universal access to water and power- that means not having to worry about their light and water going out. Click the link in our bio to access the LA Times article “Is your water or power being shut off? You have options”, highlighting RePower LA’s campaign to address the water shutoffs in LA’s vulnerable neighborhoods. Follow along as Radix highlights communities struggling for water justice around the world in the coming weeks.
Today marks 6 years since Berta’s siembra. She planted seeds of freedom and justice in the solidarity struggles of many indigenous communities including her own Lenca people.
For many in Honduras, her siembra has marked 6 years of impunity and resilience. Support the Berta Cáceres Cause using this commemorative image from to demand justice for Berta and Honduras‼️
The Radix team is thrilled to collaborate with Cal State Channel Islands (CSUCI) and the Windows on the World LLC to present “La Luche Sigue: Stories of Resistance and Resilience”, an hour long event exploring environmental activism from Ventura County in the US to La Paz, Honduras and beyond! Join us this Thursday at 5pm PST on Zoom to participate in the presentation and discussion probing the role of community and international solidarity in justice work. Open to all CSUCI students and any member of the wider community!
Follow this link to register: https://csuci.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cdwdf8WebmkEaG
We hope to see you there!!
We recognize Indigenous People’s Day TODAY and ALWAYS. Our team is grateful to reside on Chumash, Tongva, and Kalapuya lands. Let us never forget the countless LIVES and LAND that was stolen in the colonial project that persists through celebrating Columbus Day.
Who are the indigenous people who’s lands you reside in? Comment below‼️👇🏾💙🙏🏾✌🏾
Check out these beautiful maps showing the vascular system of rivers across lands. Art, analysis, or something else entirely? Our lives are lived in watersheds, and we are merely tribuatries to these life-giving land systems.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-beautiful-maps-capture-rivers-that-pulse-through-our-world-180971789/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2kUMwZIXxgPZnxOPTEsh8qvpF1DhD0cMW6Gm3WIdbmQ1M5zJ_TCg6wZo4
Cartographer Robert Szucs creates colorful maps of the watersheds that creep across states, countries, continents and the globe
Please join us in DEMANDING JUSTICE for Honduran human rights defenders Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez!
Tomorrow and September 14 at 9:30 am, they will stand trial on false criminal charges stemming from the 2017 electoral crisis. If found guilty, they will be sent back to prison for anywhere between 15 to 30 years!
As a result of these trumped up charges, Edwin and Raúl spent 19 months in a maximum-security prison from January 2018 to August 2019. They faced death threats, were put in isolation for several weeks, and were mixed with the general prison population in a prison that was allegedly constructed to house the most dangerous criminals in Honduras. Following their release, both have continued to sign before a judge every week and their trial has been postponed several times.
On September 13 and 14th at 9:30 am, Honduran human rights defenders Edwin Espinal and Raúl Alvarez will stand trial on charges stemming from the 2017 electoral crisis.
The Radix team is hard at work compiling footage from our Detroit trip to produce a series of short video clips that introduce and expand on water access in Detroit, Michigan and the surrounding areas. In the meantime, here’s a to some behind the scenes footage of our time touring Taproot Sanctuary, an intentional community and attached garden and mushroom farm in Detroit 🍄🌻🌱🥕🥬
Ventura County is one of California’s top agricultural producers. Want to learn more about the environmental justice movements working for a better world within this unique setting? Email us at [email protected] to set up a film screening and discussion for your community!
Our video, “Sowing Seeds of Change: Re-Envisioning Agriculture in North America” featured farmers and organizers in Chumash Land/Ventura County fighting for a world free from agricultural pesticides.
Studies have found that certain pesticides mimic estrogen, a factor that can disrupt hormones and may increase the risk of breast cancer.
Exposure to dangerous levels of pesticides, or low levels of pesticides over many years, tends to disproportionately impact the people who call the areas surrounding conventional farm fields home or work in the fields themselves, with communities of color in particular bearing the brunt of exposure.
Many thanks to the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) for this visual guide debunking myths about pesticide use that are often touted by large agricultural companies. We are grateful for the work of the organizers, farmers, policy makers, and activists who continue to struggle for change!
Congratulations to Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity Campaign (OCEO), and all of the organizations and individuals who came together to pass 3 incredible Energy Justice bills: 100% Clean Energy for All, Energy Affordability, & Healthy Homes. Frontline communities, including BIPOC, rural, and low income communities shaped these policies and led the training, mobilization, and advocacy for these bills to pass.
Because of this leadership, Oregon is now a leader in energy justice legislation nationwide, with the fastest timeline to transition to 100% clean energy with the highest labor standards, consultation of indigenous tribes, and a focus on community-based clean energy projects, among other wins. Thank you for your leadership in this step towards making this inspiring vision of care for each other and our planet a reality!
"We know that climate change and pollution are disproportionately impacting our Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities. Therefore, the best solutions are the ones led by our communities, for our communities," said Eric Richardson, President of the NAACP Eugene Springfield Oregon Unit 1119. "That's why we are celebrating a 100% clean electricity standard that tackles climate change and fossil fuel pollution while uplifting Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities to receive the benefits of clean energy and jobs. It's thanks to the organizing of BIPOC Oregonians across the state that this justice-based bill has succeeded."
Read more at: https://cleanenergyoregon.org/en/news/oregon-100-percent-clean-energy-for-all-passes
to March 2020 when we were in Honduras for Berta Cáceres’ fourth year commemoration of her martyrdom. This week, the people who were responsible for her assassination were found guilty. We grateful for all of the organizations who have fought tirelessly for justice for Berta and WITH the many other indigenous communities in Honduras who are resisting land occupation from multinational corporations. Copinh Honduras Honduras Solidarity Network
Interested in learning more about Radix Stories? Contact us to schedule a screening! 🎥🎞🎬
Want to know more about Radix? Check out this trailer! Follow our video series centering communities in Ventura CA, Detroit MI, and across the country of Honduras who are fighting for land, food, and water justice.
If you want to learn more about our story-sharing collective of resistance and resilience schedule a screening with us! Email us at [email protected] ✊🏽🍃💦
“The time has come for us to reimagine everything.”
-Detroit activist and beloved elder Grace Lee Boggs, whose words and spirit are omnipresent at the in Detroit, MI.
Deuteronomy 30:19
19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.
Where in this mural do you see life? Where in this mural do you see death? Please share in the comments! This vibrant mural brightens the front of Utopía, the COPINH (Honduran Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations) meeting and friendship center in Esperanza, Honduras, where the Radix team joined in the 4th Commemoration of the siembra or planting of beloved and fiercly anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.
Honduras Solidarity Network
Deuteronomia 30:19 A los cielos y a la tierra llamo por testigos hoy contra vosotros, que os he puesto delante la vida y la muerte, la bendición y la maldición; escoge, pues, la vida, para que vivas tú y tu descendencia;
¿Adónde en este mural ves la vida? ¿Adónde en este mural ves la muerte? ¡Favor de compartir en los comentarios! Este mural vibrante brilla en el frente de Utopía, el Centro de Encuentros y Amistades de COPINH (Consejo Civíco de Oregnizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras) en Esperanza, Honduras, donde el equipo Radix se unió al cuarto conmemoración de la siembra de la lidereza indígena querida y ferozmente anti-capitalista, anti-racista, y anti-patriarcal, Berta Cáceres. Copinh Honduras
"Me llamo Francisco Vásquez , soy campesino, tengo 93 años. Me dedico a la labranza de la milpa, pero con pura coa . Vivo solito en mi casa, todos mis hermanos se murieron y también mi esposa hace tres años. Yo no estudié, lo único que tengo son imaginaciones. Aquí los vecinos me conocen que amanece y ya me voy a trabajar, regreso y me preparo mi comida, la tierra me lo da todo. Esa es mi vida, aquí nací y aquí me voy a morir...”
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Francisco Vásquez Guzmán Campesino
San Francisco Yucucundo, Oaxaca, 2020.
[Fuente] JOMS
TBTuseday to that time we were in The D
The Heidelberg Project was started in 1986 by urban environmental artist, Tyree Guyton who transformed this deteriorating Detroit city block into an incredible public art project. This Detroit based community organization improves the lives of people and neighborhoods through art. Stay tuned for more amazing stories like this from the incredible people of Detroit. 🎥 @ The Heidelberg Project
Reverend Roslyn Bouier (AKA Rev. Ros) is an amazing leader in Detroit and Executive Director of the Brightmoor Connection Food Pantry. We are so excited to share with you all the amazing work of Rev. Ros and the Brightmoor Connection Food Pantry soon! Stay tuned....
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In 2019, the Radix team visited communities in and around Detroit, Michigan to learn about their fight for access to clean water. While there, we stopped by the African Bead Museum and encountered this art installation by Olayami Dabls called —“Iron Teaching Rocks How To Rust.” Stay tuned to learn more about the vibrance and resilience of the Detroit community. @ Dabl's African Bead Gallery
Reyna Ortega, a Ventura County farmer and one of the subjects of our recent film exploring food sovereignty and spirituality, speaks to the importance of transforming the food system away from a destructive model- and towards one regenerative for humans, animals, and earth.
“El Rio No Se Vende // The River Is Not for Sale”
A sign spotted in the Guapinol community in Honduras in defense of the Guapinol River and the imprisoned Guapinol Water Defenders
Happy Earth Day 🌱 🌎🌳
"La Comida es la medicina”
("Food is medicine") -Adam Vega
Adam Vega, a community organizer in Ventura County, reminds us of the importance of moving away from plantation-style agriculture and working towards creating an alternative system that not only nourishes the soil but the soul as well.
Context: Roberto David Castillo Mejía is charged with being the intellectual author of the murder of Berta Cáceres Flores. Castillo, by law, has to be present at his trial. [NOTE: COPINH and Berta Cáceres’s family do not consider David Castillo to be an intellectual author of Berta’s murder d...
Last February, the Radix team met with the families and community of 8 Guapinol Water Protectors taken political prisoner for protecting their community and river from mining contamination. Today they are still imprisoned and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions determined that their detention is against their human rights. Click on this link https://bit.ly/guapinol21 to join the Honduras Solidarity Network & Guapinol Resiste in sending messages to the Honduran government calling for the immediate release of the Guapinol Water Defenders, and to U.S. & Canadian representatives in Honduras requiring that they do likewise!
Live now! ¡En vivo ahorita!
The Building Movements in Defense of Life Film Festival is THIS WEEKEND!
This Saturday, tune in to watch the world premier of “La Lucha Sigue,” a film that captures the fight of the Lenca and Garifuna people in Honduras to uphold their rights and Indigenous and Black culture in the face of state backed megaprojects and narco-traffickers who seek to assassinate them, destroy their lands, and erase their existence.
-To register and see the full schedule: http://bit.ly/3vKseTJ
-To watch the trailer: http://bit.ly/3txHtxm
¡ESTE FIN DE SEMANA: Festival de Cine Construyendo Movimientos en Defensa de la Vida!
Este sábado, sintonicen para ver el estreno mundial de “La Lucha Sigue,” un filme que muestra la lucha de los pueblos Lenca y Garifuna en Honduras para defender sus derechos y mantener su cultura indígena y negra mientras enfrentan megaproyectos apoyados por el estado y narcotraficantes quienes buscan asesinarles, destruir sus tierras y borrar sus existencia.
-Para registrar y ver el horario entero: http://bit.ly/3vKseTJ
-Para ver el tráiler: http://bit.ly/3txHtxm
The Building Movements in Defense of Life Film Festival is THIS WEEKEND!
This Saturday, tune in to watch the world premier of “La Lucha Sigue,” a film that captures the fight of the Lenca and Garifuna people in Honduras to uphold their rights and Indigenous and Black culture in the face of state backed megaprojects and narco-traffickers who seek to assassinate them, destroy their lands, and erase their existence.
-To register and see the full schedule: http://bit.ly/3vKseTJ
-To watch the trailer: http://bit.ly/3txHtxm
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Want to know more about Radix? Check out this trailer! Follow our video series centering communities in Ventura CA, Detroit MI, and across the country of Honduras who are fighting for land, food, and water justice. If you want to learn more about our story-sharing collective of resistance and resilience schedule a screening with us! Email us at [email protected] ✊🏽🍃💦
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