The Case for Equity-based Policy Processes

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In Praxis

The Praxis Project

26 episodes

3 days ago

The Praxis Project's In Praxis podcast shares the stories of our community-based partner organizations and how they are impacting health disparities through local initiatives, policy change, and advocacy. Each episode highlights how these diverse organizations are creatively addressing social justice issues across the country, all with the same goal of health justice. By uplifting our partners’ strategies and tactics to solve local issues, we hope other organizations will find value in these lessons and experiences.

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The Case for Equity-based Policy Processes - Rod Lew

In Praxis

29 minutes 41 seconds

4 years ago

The Case for Equity-based Policy Processes - Rod Lew

Rod Lew, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), discusses how the negative health impacts of sugary beverages can be best understood in the context of a long history of racism and structural oppression as well as toxic relationship building between industry and marginalized communities. Building on this, Rod makes the case for systems change and calls for equity based policy processes in SSB taxes and building community power through reinvestment to challenge the negative health outcomes caused by sugary beverages. From APPEAL's work on tobacco, Rod also draws parallels between the tobacco industry and the beverage industry in their tactics regarding claims of regressivity in opposition to taxes on their products and threats to their profits. This episode of In Praxis is a part of Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes.

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