Hi Everybody,

I hope those who celebrated Passover this past weekend had a nice Seder, whether virtual or in person. I’ve enjoyed sharing some of my favorite Passover recipes with you over the past few weeks. Tomorrow I will share my recipe for Stuffed Cabbage! I wish those who celebrate Easter, a happy and joyous holiday.

I wanted to share with you an op-ed piece I wrote from Friday’s Newsday. Please check it out!!

This Week on the Progressive Radio Network, Bhavani Invites Joshua Sbicca, Justine Lindemann, and Antonio Roman-Alcalá to Talk About Their Book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City. 

We have all seen how neighborhoods change with gentrification, often at the expense of those who have been living there. This week, I’ve invited three contributing authors from the book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City to discuss those changes, and how some of the negative impacts, like displacing the original inhabitants, can be avoided.

Joshua Sbicca is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. As an educator and scholar-activist he ties his work to grassroots initiatives to advance food system change and economic and racial justice. His research and teaching engage with food as a site of economic, political, and social struggle. His recent work focuses on food systems and cultures and social movements at intersections of carcerality, gentrification, and racial capitalism. Underlying these interests is an ongoing engagement with how activists and scholars articulate and practice food justice and what this means for building broad based social movements. He is the author of Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle. He is also the co-editor with Alison Hope Alkon and Yuki Kato of A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City. 

Justine Lindemann (PhD, 2019, Cornell University) is an Assistant Professor of Community Development and Resilience in Penn State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences. She has several years of experience working on issues around community and economic development both domestically and internationally. Her teaching focuses on methods, theories, and practices of community development with a particular focus on civic engagement and anti-racist praxis. She also has a faculty Extension appointment that guides an applied research and programming agenda on issues related to urban food systems, equity in the food system, and urban community resilience more broadly. Prior to coming to Penn State, Justine spent several years researching experiences and politics of vacant land reuse and urban agriculture among Black gardeners and farmers in Cleveland, Ohio. Recent publications center questions of urban land, competing epistemologies of land value, and the contours of a Black agrarian imaginary related to self-determination in food across history and geographies.

Antonio Roman-Alcalá is an educator, researcher, writer, and organizer based in San Francisco, California who has worked for just sustainable food systems for over 15 years. Antonio co-founded San Francisco’s Alemany Farm, the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, and the California Food Policy Council, and his 2010 documentary film, In Search of Good Food, can be viewed free online. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley, and is a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. Currently, Antonio teaches at UC Santa Cruz and with the Urban Permaculture Institute, maintains the blog antidogmatist.com, conducts research on agroecology, social movements, and social change, and co-facilitates the scholar formation Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC). He also participates in and supports a variety of social movement projects, including urban farms, tenant councils, rural agroecology education collaboratives, and the US Food Sovereignty Alliance.

I hope you can join us on Thursday for a great discussion about a very important subject!

My radio show, iEat Green with Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network is live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in to the live show, just navigate to PRN.fm and listen in! Or, if you prefer, listen on the phone by calling 712-775-6850.

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