Food Deserts and the suprising effort to address the lack of fresh veggies

Organizations Evolve. Remember the Black Panthers? They scared conservatives and political establishment institutions: example :FBI. https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro The Panthers were responsible for the Head Start Program which addressed kids not having breakfast before they go to school. It all started with a breakfast program in California and spread nationwide. http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/home/home.html The government broke up the movement.

Now, in the 21st century, there are more movements against killing black men specifically, which the Black Panthers did not address. Black Lives Matters scares people because it is bigger than anything the Panthers managed to do. Like the Occupy Movement, it has evolved into smaller community efforts, not necessarily political, but practical. You would never know how new movements evolve, unless you were politically sophisticated and did not get your information from other people, but attended city meetings, or read articles from independent media like documenters.org or metrotimes.com. 

  LOCAL EFFORTS: ADDRESSING FOOD INSECURITY

Last year, Keep Growing Detroit says it had 60 CSA members: https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit-guides/csa-subscriptions-from-these-detroit-farms-are-like-mystery-boxes-of-locally-grown-produce-33305344 with half of the subscriptions going to Detroit families experiencing food insecurity in partnership with Black Lives Matter Detroit. Black Lives Matter Detroit pays for the families’ CSA subscriptions, and the boxes are delivered to their homes by volunteers. The effort by Black Lives Matter Detroit is addressing Food Deserts since there is no major chain supermarket in most neighborhoods in Detroit.

  OTHER MOVEMENTS 

 As for the Occupy movement- it died. Even the effort called Occupy the House (fighting high-interest rates on Mortgages and unfair lending practices) died. https://detroitgetlucky.blogspot.com/2021/12/10-years-after-occupy-detroit.html In Detroit this took on a special significance since it is the city that created a working wage, unions to protect that wage, and had plenty of housing that was later abandoned. This housing was in certain neighborhoods and salvageable. Occupy The House tried to address this. See the above link.

  REFERENCES

  https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro retrieved from the web 6/14/2023. 

  http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/home/home.html retrieved from the web 6/14/2023  

  https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit-guides/csa-subscriptions-from-these-detroit-farms-are-like-  mystery-boxes-of-locally-grown-produce-33305344 retrieved from the web 6/14/2023.

  https://detroitgetlucky.blogspot.com/2021/12/10-years-after-occupy-detroit.html retrieved from the web 6/14/2023.