How to Change the World / Cómo cambiar el mundo

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)  

Links:

• Video Interview with Minkah Taharkah
• Video Interview with TemuAsyr Martin Bey
• Cultivemos
• Cultivemos YouTube
• Cultivemos Instagram
• Cultivemos Facebook
• Cultivemos Resources
• California Farmer Justice Collaborative
• Asyr’s Bridge 
• Sankofa Gardens
• TemuAsyr Martin Bey LinkedIn
• Minkah Taharkah LinkedIn

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This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70