Introducing Fertile Soil Strategies
Black Panthers Free Breakfast Program.
Pictured: Member Norma Amour Mtume with children eating breakfast
Beloved Community,
After nearly twenty years of movement building and more than fifteen as a resource mobilizer, I’ve learned a great deal about building infrastructure and organizing both community and resources to strengthen our movements. Over the coming months and years, as I build out this new work, I look forward to sharing these lessons with you as well as the questions and that still sit with me after all this time.
When I think about resource mobilizers, I think about . . .
Harriet Tubman marshaling resources - money, housing, food, and volunteers willing to risk their lives and freedom - to free people from bondage and ultimately end chattel slavery in the United States.
Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera organizing their communities to protect and provide for each other and resist the violence of white supremacist cis hetero patriarchy. I think about how their work paved what seemed like an impossible road towards LGBTQ+ visibility and rights in the United States.
The critical movement infrastructure built by leaders like Rosa Parks and Ella Baker that facilitated and paved the way for some of the most groundbreaking and impactful actions of the Black Freedom Movements of the 1950’s and beyond.
