Feminist movement building is foundational for gender justice and feminist peace. However, an intersectional approach that addresses gendered power across race, class, economic status, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, and other status, is critical for transformative change. This event explores how civil society can address gaps in intersectional women’s organizing by creating spaces for women’s meaningful participation.

Scenes of small farms snuggled in rolling hills are not the reality of US agriculture. Farming is big business; built on an industrial model of extraction and exploitation – from confined animal feeding operations to petrochemicals and underpaid farmers and laborers. While this model is promoted as “feeding the world,” it leaves rural communities decimated, a devastation that is being increasingly duplicated around the world.