CANNABIS IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. HITTING LEFT WITH THE KLONSKY BROTHERS WITH ANTON SEALS JR
While Chicago community organizer Anton Seals Jr. has an infectious laugh, he is dead serious about economic development and equity for the city’s south side and west side African American communities.
He grew up in South Shore of activist parents. His Dad was a south side field organizer for the Harold Washington campaign.
“I got dragged from meeting to meeting as kid,” he shared with on on Friday’s Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers. “I was an Operation Push baby.’
Currently he is Lead Steward, or Executive Director, of Grow Greater Englewood.
I love the title of Lead Steward.
As a union guy when I think of the title of steward I think of the union representative, union steward, or shop steward that represents and defends the interests of they’re fellow employees.
When Seals came up with the title he was talking about a steward and care taker of the land.
Cooperative farming is a central aspect of Seal’s community organizing.
When he talks about the development of cooperative farming on the hundreds of acres of open land in Englewood, Seals draws a clear historical connection to the African and African American experience as stewards of the land, even in slavery, and the forced CONTINUE READING: Cannabis in a historical context. Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers with Anton Seals Jr. – Fred Klonsky