Locally and globally, land and food have been leveraged as tools of oppression, but they can also be portals for liberation. Groundbreaking Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman offers us living proof that when Land is reunited with her people, mutual thriving can flourish in the form of solutions to climate chaos and food apartheid.

Julian Brave NoiseCat, activist, author, filmmaker, and multi-hyphenate storyteller and artist from the Secwépemc and St’at’imc nations, makes the ancient but ever potent “Coyote Story” archetype, one of the most significant oral traditions in human history, come to vivid life to shed light on our current situation and possible paths forward in these trying times.

Kyle Trefny was 18 years old in 2020 when skies over much of the Pacific Coast turned orange with wildfire smoke. He shares how that moment led him to become a wildland firefighter and to join other youth in creating FireGeneration Collaborative, dedicated to building a future beyond intense wildfires and their devastating health impact.

As we face authoritarian oligarchy, we can learn a great deal from how food workers confronted fascism a century ago. Raj Patel, a leading expert on sustainable food systems and tireless advocate for food justice, shares how these inspiring movements show how we can draw on the best human impulses to build economic systems built on solidarity and mutual aid.

With federal incursions tearing through communities and new detention centers coming online, we may feel powerless, but we've seen communities courageously rising up to defend their neighbors. Cristina Jiménez Moreta says this is a tipping point moment, and we need to draw from examples of historic change that started in the margins of society.