Power4PuertoRico Education

Power4PuertoRico Education is a 501c3 initiative strengthening the collaboration among the Boricua diaspora & our allies through education + organizing! 📚✊🇵🇷

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As Konai Helu Thaman says, "The ocean does not separate us. It connects us."

Thank you to all of our #BeyondColonialism participants!

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"It’s never too late to begin growing our own food."
Inspired by Dr. Marilyn Salas, founding member, Pacific Farmers Together Cooperative, Guahan (Guam) who started farming at 50!
— Panelist @SibillySommer, Executive Director, Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition #BeyondColonialism

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"We had a beautiful conversation hearing about the similarities between USVI, Guam, and Puerto Rico. We discussed not depending on the mainland coming to our rescue. We have to be proactive instead of reactive in setting ourselves up for success."
— Zacha Muñiz #BeyondColonialism

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"Get support from other women. It’s also important that we continue to want to further understand what has happened to us in colonialism and where we want to take it - where do we want to go and beyond."
— Dr. Marilyn Salas #BeyondColonialism

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"The more we understand how much we are connected, the more powerful we can become."

— Dr. Marilyn Salas, founding member, Pacific Farmers Together Cooperative, Guam #BeyondColonialism

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"I think that’s a very important thing for us to know, and that we need to join forces as people of the islands and not to exclude the diaspora of women out there, but to use them as a resource to help us."

— Dr. Marilyn Salas #BeyondColonialism

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“There's importance of the Intergenerational connection.”

— @SibillySommer, Executive Director, Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition #BeyondColonialism

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“We don’t have to wait to be recognized, and these things are already happening," said Dr. Tiara Na’puti, (Chamoru/Chamorro from Guåhan/Guam), on everyday actions taking place towards solutions. #BeyondColonialism

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This is some of what we heard from participants in the breakout rooms. #BeyondColonialism
“Join forces as people of the islands,” “Get support from other women,” “Continue to further understand what happened during colonialism, and where we want to take it.” — Dr. Marilyn Salas

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"There are a couple of movements going on around actual work alot of the young generation is doing in getting into farming and seeing it as a way of living, I think it’s just really beautiful. The vision of food sovereignty is simple."

— @SibillySommer #BeyondColonialism

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.@SibillySommer gives her take on the way we are feeding our communities, "it should be healthier foods directly from our community, so from our own soil and making sure that it’s nutrient dense and nutrient rich so it can have a positive impact on our health." #BeyondColonialism

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"One of the reasons I started @blkfeministproj was because there’s reaction, but also there's proaction. There is responding to trauma, but also there is the imagination for us to see who we are beyond trauma."

— Tanya Denise Fields, Executive Director #BeyondColonialism

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(3/3) Thread on #BeyondColonialism Key Takeaways:

➡️Change is possible through Caribbean and Pacific Island food sovereignty allies working to address the extreme over-dependency on food importation amid the vulnerability to climate change.

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(1/3) Thread on #BeyondColonialism Key Takeaways:

➡️We learned that in U.S. territories, colonialism has derailed the rights of women to self-determination, economic autonomy and food security.

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(2/3) Thread on #BeyondColonialism Key Takeaways:

➡️The emotional and financial impact is felt on the territories and their diaspora communities in the U.S.

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We're so inspired from our own panelists. Leader Dr. Marilyn Salas, founding member, Pacific Farmers Together Cooperative, Guahan (Guam) started farming at the age of 50! #BeyondColonialism

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“The most radical thing we can do is to lean into our common humanity.“

— Panelist @SibillySommer, Executive Director, Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition #BeyondColonialism

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On the topic of the vision we see for food sovereignty, panelist Zacha Muñiz (Vera), President of Agroempresarias de Puerto Rico, says,

“Get young people to see farming as a way of living."

#BeyondColonialism

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“It’s about quality over the size of place. Big islands, big places, can all learn alot from the small islands.”

— Dr. Marilyn Salas, founding member, Pacific Farmers Together Cooperative, Guam #BeyondColonialism

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“We can feed our own. We would love to have regular trade with our sister islands. We are connected by water."

— Zacha Muñiz (Vera), President of Agroempresarias de Puerto Rico #BeyondColonialism