‘Solidarity’ brings you voices from our global partners, La Via Campesina, in conversation with LWA members Jo Kamal and Edwin Brooks, who travelled to Bogota in Colombia for the 8th international conference of La Via Campesina. Here, they met with over 500 landworkers, fisherpeople, pastoralists, Indigenous peoples, women, youth and sexuality and gender diverse peoples from around the world to share in struggle and hope for a future of food sovereignty. This series of The Landworkers’ Radio is presented and produced by Georgie Styles and is brought to you by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
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Power: Of Sweat And Soil
The Landworkers’ Radio brings to you ‘Of Sweat and Soil’, a story of landworker organising in the UK. From our roots in resistance, to union organising and building solidarity, the Landworkers Alliance celebrates 10 years of resistance and resilience in this 4-part podcast series, sharing the voices from our membership here in the UK and globally with La Via Campesina.‘Power’ shares the voices of some of our UK member organisers from FLAME (Food, Land, Agriculture: a Movement for Equality), REAL (Racial Equity, Abolition and Liberation) and the Women and Diverse Genders in Forestry and Landwork group. On the ground at the Landskills Fair 2023, we talk about the true meaning of food justice with Dee Woods and hear what being an organising member of the LWA is like with Buzz, Jaden and Sasha. This series is presented and produced by Georgie Styles and is brought to you by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
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Seeds: Of Sweat And Soil
The Landworkers’ Radio brings to you ‘Of Sweat and Soil’, a story of landworker organising in the UK. From our roots in resistance, to union organising and building solidarity, the Landworkers Alliance celebrates 10 years of resistance and resilience in this 4-part podcast series, sharing the voices from our membership here in the UK and globally with La Via Campesina.‘Seeds’, tells the story of the Landworkers’ Alliance - taking a look at the social, political and ecological context in the lead up to the beginning of the Landworkers’ Alliance, and exploring what being a grassroots union means to us, our theory of change, what democracy truly looks like and how our work today fits in to the wider movement for justice. With contributions from Jyoti Fernandes, Natalia Szarek and Emmott Baddeley. This series is presented and produced by Georgie Styles and is brought to you by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
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Roots: Of Sweat And Soil
The Landworkers’ Radio brings to you ‘Of Sweat and Soil’, a story of landworker organising in the UK. From our roots in resistance, to union organising and building solidarity, the Landworkers Alliance celebrates 10 years of resistance and resilience in this 4-part podcast series, sharing the voices from our membership here in the UK and globally with La Via Campesina.‘Roots’ tells a brief history of grassroots landworker organising here in the UK, through music, song, poetry and performance by Gafael Tir, a contemporary re-telling of Welsh history. With contributions from Owen Shiers, Gwilym Morus-Baird, Sian Davies and Catriona Ferguson from the Scottish Histories of Resistance Project. The Landworkers’ Radio is presented and produced by Georgie Styles and is brought to you by the Landworkers’ Alliance.This series is presented and produced by Georgie Styles and is brought to you by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
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Seeds of change: how do we build urban community seed networks?
This is a part of the Food Justice series on The Landworkers' Radio.We end this podcast season with the launch of our Landworkers’ Alliance 2023 calendar, On Common Ground. This year’s calendar shares twelve inspiring stories about land rights and land justice, and so for this episode, we’ve explored the story ‘the urban growing project’, in conversation with Richard Galpin, member of the London Freedom Seed Bank.For thousands of years farmers, growers, peasants and land workers across the world have been saving and exchanging seeds, passing them down from one generation to the next. But over the past one hundred years, the knowledge, skill and practice of seed saving, as well as many varieties of seed, have been all but lost. However, around the world, and here in the UK, there is a growing movement to rebuild seed diversity and seed sovereignty in both urban and rural settings. This movement is centred around working to adapt and build seed resilience in the face of climate change, retraining growers and farmers in the lost art of seed custodianship, and celebrating our seed stories and food and cultural heritages.The London Freedom Seed Bank is a network of gardeners and food growers across London and was set up to collectively protect, store and keep alive rare and unusual varieties - seed that is grown and saved in London to ensure it has adapted and acclimatised to local growing conditions, making a more resilient seed stock for urban environments.This series was produced by Dee Butterly and Georgie Styles and was brought to you by the Landworkers Alliance. Thanks so much to all of our listeners and collaborators who joined us over the season!
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