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More info on fight toxic prisons here

www.instagram.com/fighttoxicprisons
www.instagram.com/villainus_music
https://abolitionistlawcenter.org/Our-Work/Projects/Campaign-To-Fight-Toxic-Prisons/
https://nationinside.org/campaign/prison-ecology-project/

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This episode draws connections between the prison industrial complex and environmental justice- Brown Girl Green sits down with Amanda Diaz from Freedom for Immigrants @migrantfreedom on instagram.

Here’s a petition from the Shut Down Glades Coalition to take action today:https://action.aclu.org/send-message/fl-tell-dhs-shut-down-glades-now

The list of books Amanda mentioned plus more if folks are interested: 


“Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis (PDFs can be found here on "The Anarchist Library" and here for a more book like version.)
We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown 
"Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” Edited by Ejeris Dixon and LEah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Color of Violence” The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! WOmen of Color Against Violence
“Prison By Any Other Name” by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
"Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect” A Truthout Collection (PDF can be found here on "The Anarchist Library.")
Abolition Feminism Now by Angela Davis

Other Resources:  


Let’s Talk About Abolition 15 week self-guided community course by Nikita Oliver
Short history of immigration detention" infographic (Freedom for Immigrants)
Interactive Immigration Detention Timeline (Freedom for Immigrants)
Detention 101 (Detention Watch Network
Why Abolition? (Freedom for Immigrants)
The State of Black Immigrants (Black Alliance for Just Immigration)
Detained: How the U.S. Built the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (The Marshall Project)
Immigration Detention Syllabus (Freedom for Immigrants)
History of Criminalization Webinars (ICE out of CA)
Immigrant Justice Now! Curriculum (Catalyst Project)
Dismantling Detention webinar (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
Immigration Detention in the United States by agency (American Immigration Council)

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In this episode you will learn about:

-The connections between colonization and conservation
-How conservation movements can displace Indigneous communities
-How Indigenous people in Tanzania are resisting and reclaiming the narrative of conservation over their lands

Learn more and support the Maasai here:

bit.ly/maasaihelp
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This episode of Brown Girl Green covers the issue of food waste - which currently contributes to 6% of global green house gas emissions (our world in data). Learn from Maen Mahfoud, an expert who is taking food surplus and using it to redistribute out to the communities who need it the most. Check out this live episode and learn more about his company, Replate - a non-profit tech organization working to address the food surplus crisis.

www.replate.org

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This episode of Brown Girl Green is focused on sustainable fashion. We discuss if/ why sustainable fashion is the path forward away from throw-away culture and mass over-consumption of clothing in modern society. Despite the benefits of more "sustainable" or environmentally friendly fashion, there are still a lot of gaps around diversity, equity, and inclusion within the movement. A majority of sustainable fashion only caters to a small demographic that excludes many different ethnic groups and body types from partaking in its ethical benefits. Further, some sustainable fashion brands don't necessarily prioritize racial justice or labor rights even if they are all "green" or "zero waste." So in this episode, I examine what some of the gaps exist around sustainable fashion, but also the benefits this framework of going more "green" with your clothing habits can have on society.

The interview features Samata, a British-born Ghanaian fashion designer, author, and journalist who is best known for her role as Global Campaign Director for Red Carpet Green Dress, a campaign that is pushing to showcase ethical fashion on the Oscars red carpet. She is also an award-winning womenswear designer whose work in the fields of fashion and sustainability has received coverage from BBC Radio 1Xtra, Essence, ITV's This Morning, E! Entertainment, Women's Wear Daily, ELLE, InStyle, Essence, Refinery 29, and Red Magazine.

The biggest topics covered in this episode are:
-Discussing why sustainable fashion is useful and necessary
-Redefining what sustainable fashion can be- beyond just luxury goods for the privileged, how can we own actions like wearing second-hand, clothing swaps, and DIY's to minimize our consumption?
-What a more diverse sustainable fashion world would look like and why that's important

Sustainable Fashion brands/ initiatives mentioned in today's episode:
Sustainable Brooklyn
Project One Eighty Nine
Sustainable Fashion Forum
Soko Kenya
Fashion Revolution
Anthill Fabrics
Pildora NYC
Mate the Label
The Front Lash

Some resources for further reading:
Fashion Takes Action- Fashion's role in the Sustainable Development Goals

What COVID-19 means for sustainable fashion

Ethical Fashion on a budget

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