This timely project launched on November 28, with a webinar, co-sponsored with Grassroots International, on the topic “Eating the Other: Toward Food Sovereignty in Palestine and the U.S.” It featured Gaza Kitchen co-authors Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad discussing common food-sovereignty challenges and strategies for dealing with them, with Native American chef Brit Reed and mixed-race American food/farming leader Jonathan Wilson. Their conversation was moderated by Grassroots International’s director Chung-Wha Hong.
You can see the entire 90-minute video of that session, bios of participants, and links to a lot of related materials, at this Resource Page.
The next event in this series will be the release December 12 (also at 1pm ET) of three short videos documenting various aspects of the food system in Gaza, Palestine. At this December 12 online event, which is co-sponsored with the Museum of the Palestinian People, we’ll be releasing these timely videos in a panel discussion featuring Laila El-Haddad, Maggie Schmitt, and Palestinian-American farmer/activist Mohammed Abujayyab.