from Earth First! Newswire
The movement for total liberation lost a huge champion this week with the death of Charity Hicks, an ecological and economic justice advocate based in Detroit, Michigan.
Hicks was a long-time advocate for food sovereignty, global solidarity, and, most recently, access to water amidst the City of Detroit’s infamous water shutoff.
Hicks had in a coma for over a month before passing on Tuesday. She had sustaining injuries from a hit-and-run car strike while she waited at a bus stop near Penn Station on her way to the Left Forum in New York City.
According to an article published by Voice of Detroit before her death,
“She has been working to understand and influence federal policies to facilitate food access in low income communities, benefit regional farmers including African American producers, create living wage jobs in food retail and spin-off businesses, while promoting opportunities for cooperative ownership.
Charity always spoke out for the marginalized, affirmed the role of government against privatization, wove deep ecological understanding into her analysis, mentored young leaders and sat at many tables such as the Food Justice Task Force and the People’s Water Board. Charity worked with the US Food Sovereignty Alliance to bring Food Sovereignty Award recipients from Haiti and Brazil to visit urban farmers in Detroit and she later traveled to Brazil to meet with members of the MST (Landless People’s Movement).”
Hick’s work will live on forever, reminding us that we are all in solidarity as we organize towards collective liberation amidst unprecedented accumulation of capital and climate change. Rest in Power, Charity Hicks.
image courtesy Forum social des peuples
