Environmental Justice Now

In this podcast, Talbot and Kendal, explain food apartheid by driving to food justice. They begin in Hobe Sound, Florida at Banner Lake Charter School, where they interview Simone Scott, an employee and native of Banner Lake. They explain how food apartheid differes from food deserts before driving up to Petersburg, New York to look at the work of Leah Pennimen and her team at Soul Fire Farm. The different voice is a Deerfield Academy student (Linnea Dreslin) meant to replicate Leah’s voice in a Today Show Youtube interview. They do not actually interview Leah in real life. Information from Simone Scott was collected through a Zencaster interview. Their overall goal is to show what food apartheid looks like and its trickle down effects on other social justice issues. They tried to schedule an interview with Soul Fire Farm, but the farm does not have availability until August. 

Here are some of the resources we referenced for this episode:

Soul Fire Farm: https://www.soulfirefarm.org/about/goals/ (Links to an external site.)

Today Show Leah Pennimen Interview on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZq3jITD2g&t=140s (Links to an external site.)

These words in the podcast come from this Youtube video: 

Video (2:12-2:48): Despite our master's degrees and over a decade of farming experience, we found it impossible to get fresh food for our children. There were no supermarkets no farmers markets no available community garden plots the only food is a corner store a liquor store and a McDonald's this system of segregation is termed by the government a food desert to us there's nothing natural about apartheid so we call it what it is; its food apartheid it comes out of a legacy of redlining and housing discrimination of divestment from communities of color and has resulted in the situation today where if you're white you're four times as likely to have a supermarket on your block then if you're black”

Video (4:49-5:28): “You know land is the place where the lynchings the beatings the enslavement the sharecropping took place and so there's no way to escape the trauma associated with that and so a big part of what I and we are trying to do at Soulfire is to reach back across the narrative of the hundreds of years of land based oppression to cleopatra's you know compost piles and the raised beds of the ovambo people in Namibia to reach back to the work of dr. George Washington Carver's creating regenerative agriculture and Dr. Booker T Watley with farm-to-table to really reclaim the dignity of it is super important if we can't feed ourselves we can't truly be free.”

Video (6:31-7:05): “we have a lot of teens that come through the farm and not all of them are gonna be farmers but they see folks who look like them following their dreams and being their own bosses and running their own institutions what matters to me is that they can see a wider vision of what's possible for their own lives this is what we're trying to get here so it's great to see it in person yeah it makes my heart flutter honestly I just like I'm so inspired”

More about Leah Pennimen and Soul Fire Farm: 

https://www.vogue.com/article/soul-fire-farm-leah-penniman-why-food-sovereignty-is-central-in-the-fight-for-racial-justice (Links to an external site.)

https://www.today.com/food/leah-penniman-started-her-own-farm-end-racism-food-system-t167046 (Links to an external site.)

More about Simone Scott and Banner Lake: 

http://www.bannerlake.org (Links to an external site.)

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/luminaries/martin-county/2018/09/30/neighbors-break-bread-family-day-dinner-banner-lake-club/1483637002/ (Links to an external site.)

Music: 

“All That” Royalty Free Music: (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/all-that-chill-hop (Links to an external site.))

Special Thanks:

Simone Scott for her input about Banner Lake!

Mr. Brian Hamilton for the introductory voice

Linnea Dreslin for reciting the Youtube video lines to serve as Leah Pennimen’s voice

This episode of Injustices Uncovered explores the environmental and labor rights issues that go unnoticed in the commercial fishing industry. The two hosts, Quinton and Haley, begin by expelling some common perceptions about fishing and then introduce Vannak Anan Prum, a Cambodian man who’s story reveals how modern slavery is possible. The episode concludes by examining the ways in which this injustice is being addressed and how solutions should be improved. Quinton and Haley, with Prum’s help, hope to bring attention to this pressing issue and implore consumers in the West to be more mindful of the seafood they buy.

Sources we referenced:

The Freedom Fund (Links to an external site.)

Hakai Magazine (Links to an external site.)

The Lowy Institute (Links to an external site.)

Seafood Source (Links to an external site.)

Thomson Reuters Foundation (Links to an external site.)

Deutsche Welle (Links to an external site.)

Greenpeace (Links to an external site.)

2020 Trafficking in Persons Report (Links to an external site.)

Learn more:

Maritime Executive (Links to an external site.)

Global Slavery Index (Links to an external site.)

Nature Communications (Links to an external site.)

Animal Equality (Links to an external site.)

The Pew Charitable Trusts (Links to an external site.)

Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Database (Links to an external site.)

Vannak Anan Prum:

Twitter (Links to an external site.)

Guardian Article (Links to an external site.)

Buy on Amazon: The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea (Links to an external site.) 

Music/Sounds:

Sea Waves (Links to an external site.)

Trawler Engine (Links to an external site.)

Intro Music:Infados by Kevin MacLeod (Links to an external site.)

Outro Music:Mystic Aliens (Remix) by KillumiNattyDread (Links to an external site.)

Special Thanks:

Mr. Hamilton for his voice as Vannak Anan Prum

Nick Baker for his voice as Phil Robertson

Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/23/how-we-survived-covid-19-in-prison https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/12/17/how-to-fix-our-prisons-let-the-public-insideProfessor David N. Pellow Interview: https://youtu.be/3CcSB4u4CJEGrist Graph: https://grist.org/equity/toxic-jails-environmental-justice-los-angeles-new-york-chicago/Purposes of Punishment: https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/1-5-the-purposes-of-punishment/#:~:text=Punishment%20has%20five%20recognized%20purposes,rehabilitation%2C%20retribution%2C%20and%20restitutionOther resources to consult:https://theecologist.org/2020/nov/13/environmental-injustice-mass-incarceration-and-systemic-racism-ushttps://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2020/02/17/prisoners-need-environmental-justice-too/https://www.ehn.org/environmental-racism-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2641465977.htmlMusic/Sound effects:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3TfTESdx8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2ERtFfFPwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIFFF8p11Hkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeAdAe4B3Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u4EPdP7WgA&t=23shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ial7GYDxO54