Farm Bill Workshop & Kick-off the formation of the Seattle Farm Bill Action Group!
Sunday August 8, 4-6:30 pm
Workshop Description: Through interactive activities participants will learn about how the Farm Bill affects them personally and create a vision for the Farm Bill we want! Guest speakers Ben Burkett and John Fawcett-Long will help participants understand the basics of the Farm Bill, its impacts on farmers, communities and consumers in WA state, and the struggles to improve the Farm Bill in 2008, including what lessons we can learn from these past efforts to be more effective in 2012.
About the speakers: Ben Burkett is a 4th generation Mississippi Farmer, President of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the National Family Farm Coalition, and involved in the international movement of farmers and farmworkers, La Via Campesina. He will be in Seattle to give the keynote at CAGJ's annual dinner, Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere. John Fawcett-Long has been a long-time advocate organizer for a sustainable and justice food and farming system. He was raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota and moved to Seattle in the mid-80s. He has served as Director of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and on the Steering Committee of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. He is a co-founder of the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network. John served as a key grassroots food and farming organizer in 1999 regarding the World Trade Organization's meetings in Seattle.
Free! Potluck following - please bring something to share if you are able!
Location: New Hope Baptist Church
116 21st Ave. - between Fir & Yesler in the Central District of Seattle
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