From the Free African Society in 1787 to Ella Baker's cooperatives, Freedom Farm and the Black Panther Party's breakfast program, our people have always built their own systems of care while fighting the ones that shut them out. This is the lineage the Community Welfare System comes from. Read the full essay on Substack: https://zuhdae.substack.com/p/parallel-systems-have-always-been
A community that can feed its own children is much harder to control.
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2016: the Downtown Minneapolis courthouse, age 17.
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2020: relief fund picnic at Powderhorn Park.
