Andrea Brower: Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possiblity Author Andrea Brower discusses how Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.
On the isolated islands of Hawaii, many crops thrive in year-round growing seasons. However, as successful as this climate seems for many plants, from papayas.
It can be easy to feel powerless in the face of the multitude of injustices in the world today, but Andrea Brower, an adjunct instructor who teaches across the environmental studies, sociology, solidarity and social justice and leadership studies departments, works to empower her students to create change.
Brower is highly involved in activism, on everything from militarism, environmental struggles against the chemical industry in Hawaii, where she is from, and more recently the movement for Black lives.
âAt the core of my activism, Iâm really interested in questions of injustice that are just baked into, you can call it radicalized capitalism, and how we create really long-term systemic change to deal with those,â Brower said.