How to Change the World / Cómo cambiar el mundo

05/31/23 • 32 min

Entrevistas completas en vídeo con TemuAsyr Martin Bey y Minkah Taharkah están disponibles con subtítulos en español en el canal de YouTube de Cultivemos.

Full video interviews with TemuAsyr Martin Bey and Minkah Taharkah are available with Spanish subtitles on the Cultivemos YouTube channel.

Description:

Are we prepared to run the world?

We are in the midst of a mental health crisis for farmers. But while the effects of mental health are felt on a personal level, many of the root causes are systemic, built into the institutions that govern and fund agriculture. To be successful, the project for farmer mental health must include systemic change. But how do we achieve that change?

On this episode, we explore two different approaches: changing institutions from the inside and from the outside. We’ll compare the relative benefits–and limits–of working in the legislature vs. your own community, and why the road to change may lie somewhere in between.

Together with Minkah Taharkah and TemuAsyr Martin Bey, two members of the California Farmer Justice Collaborative, we explore the worlds of grassroots activism and federal lobbying, and discuss how you–yes, you!–can contribute to a cause, build a movement, and take care of yourself while you do it.

Highlights:

Big problems require big solutions (2:47)
Institutions have the resources (4:32)
Our cultural champions are right here (7:29)
Systemic problems affect us on an individual level (8:28)
Sometimes we need solutions faster than institutions can provide them (9:28)
If we don’t embrace institutions, we allow other people to run our resources (11:46)
Are we prepared to run the world (12:40)
California Farmer Justice Collaborative as model (14:41)
The power of a combined approach (16:15)
It starts with connections (19:05)
There’s a place for everyone (20:05)
Educating yourself and others (21:07)
Do the boring work (23:03)
Our movements are only as well as we are (25:46)
Systemic change is a marathon, not a sprint (28:25)

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If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email us at [email protected]

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

¿Estamos preparados para dirigir el mundo?

Estamos inmersos en una crisis de salud mental de los agricultores. Pero aunque los efectos de la salud mental se dejan sentir a nivel personal, muchas de las causas profundas son sistémicas, están integradas en las instituciones que gobiernan y financian la agricultura. Para tener éxito, el proyecto de salud mental de los agricultores debe incluir un cambio sistémico. Pero, ¿cómo lograr ese cambio?

En este episodio exploramos dos enfoques diferentes: cambiar las instituciones desde dentro y desde fuera. Compararemos los beneficios relativos -y los límites- de trabajar en el poder legislativo frente a la propia comunidad, y por qué el camino hacia el cambio puede estar en algún punto intermedio.

Junto con Minkah Taharkah y Temu...

Entrevistas completas en vídeo con TemuAsyr Martin Bey y Minkah Taharkah están disponibles con subtítulos en español en el canal de YouTube de Cultivemos.

Full video interviews with TemuAsyr Martin Bey and Minkah Taharkah are available with Spanish subtitles on the Cultivemos YouTube channel.

Description:

Are we prepared to run the world?

Highlights:

Big problems require big solutions (2:47)
Institutions have the resources (4:32)
Our cultural champions are right here (7:29)
Systemic problems affect us on an individual level (8:28)
Sometimes we need solutions faster than institutions can provide them (9:28)
If we don’t embrace institutions, we allow other people to run our resources (11:46)
Are we prepared to run the world (12:40)
California Farmer Justice Collaborative as model (14:41)
The power of a combined approach (16:15)
It starts with connections (19:05)
There’s a place for everyone (20:05)
Educating yourself and others (21:07)
Do the boring work (23:03)
Our movements are only as well as we are (25:46)
Systemic change is a marathon, not a sprint (28:25)

Links:

Feedback:

If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email us at [email protected]

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

¿Estamos preparados para dirigir el mundo?

Junto con Minkah Taharkah y Temu...

Previous Episode

The Land is a Relative / La Tierra es un Relativo

La entrevista completa con Rev Dele está disponible con subtítulos en español en la página de Cultivemos en YouTube.

The full interview with Rev Dele is available with Spanish subtitles on the Cultivemos YouTube channel.

Description:

We have to reimagine our relationship with the land.

Farmers are experiencing a crisis of land access. The number of farms is decreasing and the cost of farm real estate has nearly doubled in the past decade, shutting out many prospective farmers. That’s especially true for BIPOC farmers: 98% of farmland is owned by white landowners. With better land access, farming would be more sustainable, achievable and diverse. Without it, farmers can’t farm.

But there’s another harm that’s hidden within the crisis of land access. It’s harder to measure, but no less important. With land out of reach, fewer and fewer people have a relationship with the earth. That means, fewer and fewer people are getting the healing benefits of land: wonder, refuge, calm, even wealth and liberation. To move forward, we have to reimagine our relationship with the land.

So on today’s episode, we speak with two people who are committed to creating relationships with the land. Danielle Peláez is the Education Coordinator at Soul Fire Farm. Through their programming, they create opportunities for Afro-Indigenous people to forge lasting relationships with the earth. Rev Dele is a Black, Indigenous minister, who is teaching the church how to model sustainability. Through her initiatives, Soil & Souls and the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust, she’s sharing the Earth’s healing and pursuing land sovereignty for her community.

A better future starts with our imagination. So join us, as we reimagine our relationship with the land, and find strategies for sharing its bounty with others.

Highlights:

Danielle Peláez’s farming journey (1:50)
Rev Dele’s history with the land (4:30)
Disconnection: the dark history of land in America (6:25)
How land can heal you (8:24)
Learning from indigenous stewards (10:02)
The crisis of land access (12:19)
Land sovereignty & the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust (14:17)
How Soul Fire Farm creates opportunities for connection with their programming (16:47)
How the personal fuels the political (20:36)
Reimagining the land as a relative (22:12)
How the land can help us heal our relationships with each other (25:44)
It won’t take forever (28:42)
The role–and limits–of imagination in the fight for a better future (31:14)

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Feedback:

If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email us at [email protected]

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

Tenemos que reimaginar nuestra relación con la tierra.

Los agricultores sufren una crisis de acceso a la tierra. El número de explotaciones está disminuyendo y el coste de la propiedad agrícola casi se ha duplicado en la última década, dejando fuera a muchos posibles agricultores. Esto es especialmente cierto para los agricultores BIPOC: el 98% de las tierras agrícolas son propiedad de terratenientes blancos. Con un mejor acceso a la tierra, la agricultura...

Next Episode

¿Estas Bien? / Are You Okay?

A full video interview is available with English subtitles on the Cultivemos YouTube channel.

La entrevista completa en vídeo está disponible con subtítulos en inglés en el canal de YouTube de Cultivemos.

Descripción:

Advertencia sobre el contenido: En este episodio se habla de suicidio.

Más del 60% de los trabajadores agrícolas de EE. UU. se sienten más cómodos conversando en español. Y también tienen necesidades de salud mental. Pero cuando se trata de salud mental, su experiencia viene determinada por su cultura. Así que no podemos limitarnos a traducir los mismos consejos al español; tenemos que abordar los problemas específicos a los que se enfrentan los agricultores hispanos.

En este episodio, hablamos con Eustacio Mil Quino, Jaime Cardoso Zúñiga y Ernesto Villegas González, tres agricultores de origen mexicano de Hudson Valley Farm Hub. Hablamos con ellos sobre sus experiencias con la salud mental, cómo se ve de manera diferente en México, y cómo lidian con el estrés en sus vidas. Además, cómo están cambiando las actitudes culturales y los obstáculos específicos para los inmigrantes mexicanos.

Acompáñenos a explorar este importante tema. Más de tres cuartas partes de los trabajadores agrícolas de EE.UU. se identifican como hispanos. Si no satisfacemos sus necesidades, estamos fracasando, y puede que el sistema alimentario también.

Reflejos:

Por qué estos agricultores vinieron a Estados Unidos (3:09)
Discriminación (6:17)
Barreras a la atención sanitaria mental (8:51)
Actitudes culturales hacia la salud mental (10:44)
Estrategias para afrontar el estrés (14:42)
La experiencia de Eustacio con el suicidio (16:00)
El poder de una mano amiga (16:51)
Cómo afecta tu salud mental a tu familia (19:31)
Cómo están cambiando las actitudes (22:41)

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Este trabajo cuenta con el proyecto 2020-70028-32729 Instituto nacional de alimentos y agricultura (NIFA, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Red de asistencia para el estrés en fincas y ranchos del noreste (FRSAN, por sus siglas en inglés).

Description:

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

More than 60% of farm workers in the US feel more comfortable conversing in Spanish. And they have mental health needs too! But when it comes to mental health, your experience is shaped by your culture. So we can’t just translate the same advice into Spanish; we have to address the specific issues that Hispanic farmers face.

On this episode, we spoke with Eustacio Mil Quino, Jaime Cardoso Zúñiga, and Ernesto Villegas González–three Mexican-born farmers at Hudson Valley Farm Hub. We spoke to them about their experiences with mental health, how it’s seen differently in Mexico, and how they deal with stress in their lives. Plus, how cultural attitudes are changing, and specific obstacles for Mexican immigrants.

So join us as we explore this important issue. Over three-quarters of agricultural workers in the US identify as Hispanic. If we're not meeting their needs, we're failing--and the food system might be too.

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