Bread Uprising

A Community Bakery in Durham, NC / Una Panadería Communitaria en Durham, Carolina del Norte

<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.4440336893948541" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bread Uprising is a community bakery in Durham, NC, rooted in queer, people-of-color, and working class communities.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For over two years we&rsquo;ve baked weekly bread for an average of 35 families &amp; households. We&rsquo;ve built a bakery where members contribute what they can, and receive the bread that they want and need. Yes, this means that we do not sell the bread &ndash; we are creating an economy based on love and solidarity. Bread Uprising&rsquo;s membership is a radical majority (at least 60%) people of color, and there is priority membership for anyone who does not have consistent access to food.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bread Uprising is a cooperative in which both workers and members make decisions about what happens in the bakery. We hold assemblies twice a year for workers, members, and supporters to bond, celebrate, and plan the growth of the bakery. We've led workshops about food justice and food sovereignty and held study sessions to help us think more deeply about how to build and maintain a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-queer membership in the face of systems of oppression.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In nine seasons of our subscription program, we&rsquo;ve transformed more than 3,600 lbs of locally-milled organic flour, 25 gallons of local honey, over 100 lbs of salt, and countless gallons of City of Durham water into bread on the table.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, we're ready to expand! Click through to the fundraising campaign to see how your contributions will help build and sustain our vision!<br /></span></p>

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