1. By: Lisa Morrison

2.  Study and conclude if Guerrilla Gardening is a food justice, community empowerment or EJ movement.  Study community empowerment and food justice through an environmental justice lens.  Contribute to the literature on Environmental Justice and Food Justice.

3. BEFOREAFTER

5.  Passionate group of gardeners  Urban beautification activists  Community builders  They have their own language: digs, missions, aliases,  Fun!

6. BEFOREAFTER

7.  The right to have access to, produce, buy and sell fresh healthy food free of chemicals that was produced in a humane and sustainable way.  I suggest FJ is a growing movement  Search yielded little scholarly work ▪ Search details:

8.  Method  Amazon search of:  ’food justice’  ‘food movements’  Yielded 139 and 264 respectively  Tallied first 60 publications by 1 year and 5 years increments

11.  Scholarly texts and articles  Internet searches  These resources will be used to better understand Guerrilla Gardening in relation to:  Environmental Justice  Community empowerment  Food Justice

12.  Approximately 16 principles  This study will focus on two:  Community based social movement building  Citizens right to have clean air, land, water, and food

13.  Citizens being directly involved in the identification of social and environmental issues and the implementation of possible solutions.  An environmental incident is not a social and environmental problem or conflict until the community acknowledges it.  GG has pinpointed an issue of land abandonment and misuse.

14.  Sectors of business supported by many groups that profit from the exploitation of the environment and weakened environmental regulation

15.  Also known as the ‘boomerang effect’ Production of toxic chemicals by PIC Export chemicals to global South Utilize toxic chemicals in agriculture Global North imports contaminated produce Consumption of contaminated produce

16.  Introduced new “green” technology to the global South  Why?  Successful?

17.  Carbon dioxide traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere  Creates warmer and wetter/dryer weather such as, drought, flooding, hurricanes with increased: ▪ Frequency ▪ Intensity ▪ Duration  Which de-stabilizes food production and security.

18.  Texts did not include Food Justice or the Food Justice Movement.  Research is preliminary  Need additional research on both FJ and GG to further validate findings

19.  LAGG- Community Empowerment Movement  LAGG- Urban Beautification Movement, Not Food Justice Movement  Food Justice as well as Guerrilla Gardening should be included in Environmental Justice discourse