Care For The People Session Two: Abolition, Land, and Care Work: Lessons from the Food Justice Movement

Start: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM GMT

End: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM GMT

A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP

New Economy Coalition is inviting the public to join us for our new workshop series Care For the People on the third Wednesday of every other month at 1pm et, 12pm ct, 10am pt.

SESSION TWO: Abolition, Land, and Care Work: Lessons from the Food Justice Movement

Join us for session two of our Care for the People series, with Kanav Kathuria (he/him), on the intersections between prison abolition, care work, food and land sovereignty. This session explores how the struggle for food sovereignty is an abolitionist project. What does it mean to build a world where we are all able to meet our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs—a world that centers the liberatory potential of food and land to heal and restore relationships torn apart by centuries of oppression? How is collectively tending to the land an act of care?

Through sharing lessons and learnings from movements for food and land sovereignty in Baltimore, New York, Cuba, and Palestine, Kanav also invites participants to envision the roles and skills needed to build alternative educational and food systems, develop land-based forms of mutual aid, and collectively practice revolutionary care.

Bio: Kanav Kathuria’s (he/him) work lies in the intersection of abolition, food and land sovereignty, and revolutionary education. He is the co-founder of the Maryland Food and Prison Abolition Project, a community-based organization that seeks to dismantle the prison food industrial complex, as well as a land steward, educator, and a PhD student in geography researching how people have used food and land to help get free.

ABOUT CARE FOR THE PEOPLE

NEC is hosting a series that will ground us in lessons from movements, change makers, and organizers that engage different approaches to creative collective solidarity. It is becoming increasingly clear that people will have to rely on and care for each other more and more after years of purposeful abandonment from those in power. This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we expand our ideas? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?