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Food First Delegation Explores Oaxaca’s Vibrant Food and Agricultural Heritage

TOUR DATE: December 22 – 30, 2012
REGISTER BY: September 22 2012 

“Sin maíz, no hay país!” (“Without corn, we have no country!”) is a popular battle cry in Oaxaca, Mexico. As the cornerstone of Mesoamerican agriculture and diet, corn or “maize” is at the heart of the ongoing struggle for food sovereignty in Mexico. This December, Food Sovereignty Tours offers the public an opportunity to explore current food issues in this diverse region of Mexico first-hand as part of a guided delegation.

More information here and here

Tour registration is open to the public. To learn more, visit the Food Sovereignty Tours website: 

http://www.foodsovereigntytours.org/international-tours/oaxaca.

[information session] – Oxfam Action Corps!

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Oxfam Action Corps! Info Session –Global Poverty & Food Justice Policy
Wednesday, January 18th
12:30-1:20pm
Savery Hall 132
No registration required

 

Concerned about poverty and hunger on a global scale, but not sure how to make a difference at the local level? Join this info session to learn about volunteer opportunities with the Oxfam Action Corps and find out how your efforts can change the bigger picture.


Be an advocate and an organizer, gain leadership skills, policy expertise with a major international NGO, and have fun doing good work with great people!

From town events to rock concerts to the halls of Congress, as a member of the Oxfam Action Corps you will campaign for global food justice with fellow Oxfam supporters in your city.  You will gain advocacy experience, organizing skills, and expertise in poverty and food justice policy—all while having fun and making a better world.

Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 90 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice. Learn more at: www.oxfamamerica.org


The Oxfam Action Corps is a group of dedicated volunteers based in more than a dozen US cities who campaign with Oxfam to fight poverty around the world. They are currently teaming up with Oxfam on the GROW campaign for food justice. You can read about their latest efforts on the Oxfam Action Corps blog.

Please join us and feel free to bring and eat your lunch.

[event] – ‘Food Justice’ dialogue and book talk

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FOOD JUSTICE: A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TAKES ROOT

Join us for a dialogue with Food Justice co-author Robert Gottlieb

Monday May 23, 7:00 PM

Architecture Hall 147

What is food justice? How would we define it? Is there a food justice movement?

When we talk about today’s food system, food injustices are ubiquitous. It’s where workers in the fields, the meat processing plants, or the restaurant industry face hazardous and exploitative conditions. It’s in the low-income neighborhoods that lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises. And it’s with our food products that sometimes resemble more of a high calorie chemical mash than a wholesome and healthy product. Opposing these unjust conditions, a food justice movement has taken root, seeking to transform the food system, from field to table. Robert Gottlieb, co-author of the new book, Food Justice, will talk about the strengths and the challenges facing these new and dynamic food justice groups and their organizing efforts, the emerging new politics around food, and the efforts to transform the very language and understanding about food, from how food is grown to why eating has become a political act.

Robert Gottlieb is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of a dozen books, including most recently Food Justice (with Anupama Joshi, MIT Press). He has been researching and organizing around food system issues for more than two decades and is a long-time social and environmental justice activist and historian of social movements.

 

Sponsored by the Community Alliance for Global Justice  and the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments

[event] Common Spaces NW

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[event] Common Spaces NW

Common Spaces Northwest began from an idea: what sort of incredible fusion of prowess and flowering of community can happen if we just got people together to talk? What kind of concepts or changes can we inspire? So often the barriers between activism, theory, and feeling are so high–Common Spaces Northwest seeks to bring them down and open this conversation to everyone who wants to participate, everyone who’s concerned with these problems. Join us this weekend at Common Spaces NW and get this conversation started!