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Converging to overcome crisis and change the system
A Conversation among Food and Climate Movements and Activists by Salena Fay Tramel
Social justice movements are using food sovereignty and climate justice as entry points for radical systemic overhaul. Although many grassroots organizations have historically worked by sec-tor, activists are engaging in deep conversations to construct so-phisticated convergences to win longstanding struggles for nat-ural resources and solve multiple crises. These conversations show synergies within and across movements, the most vibrant of which are work on feminisms, agroecology, water, and just transition.
This profound moment of political dialogue also un-earths tensions, many of which are being addressed through an intersectional approach to alliance building that accounts for overlapping systems of oppression like race, class, and gender. Transformation is inevitable at this time of reverberating glob-al economic and environmental shocks, but what that change looks like is up to us. As capitalism’s descent into an unlivable future accelerates, social justice movements are showing hu-manity once more that another world is possible, necessary, and already in the works.