Episode 54: Freedom Farmers with Vivi Moreno

Fannie Lou Hamer is increasingly recognized for her leadership with the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, but did you know about the 600-acre Freedom Farm Cooperative she started? This is one of many examples of Black farmers organizing for power and self-determination highlighted in Monica White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. Monica and Page talk with Vivi Moreno, food justice organizer and urban farmer with Catatumbo Cooperative Farm and part of the Farmers for Chicago program hosted by Urban Growers Collective. Vivi helps us understand the long history of agricultural resistance and applies it to the ongoing struggles we still face today for healthy, sustainable, and self-determining communities.