UW farm listserve: [TheUWfarm] Aug 16: FJP mtg Focus on Racism in the Food System and Food Movement

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Through political action and anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, CAGJ's Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!

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TUES AUG 16, 6:30-9PM: CAGJ Food Justice Project Meeting

Racism in the Food System and Food Movement
Location: 23rd Ave S and Jackson St, 309 23rd Ave A 98144, at NELA Center for Student Success.

Each Food Justice Project meeting now includes an educational component, to enable us to collectively build knowledge for our Community Education initiative. Meetings will feature speakers, article discussions, personal research and presentation, and focused facilitated discussion. As an extension of CAGJ's organizational anti-oppression analysis and training process, we have chosen race, class and gender as the first of our monthly topics.

Please join us for our next meeting in August, where we will engage in a facilitated discussion about race and the food system. The meeting is co-sponsored by Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, and will be facilitated by Bill Aal and Carlos Alicea - see their bios below. We hope to increase our understanding of the role that structural racism plays in both our food system and in the growing food movement, and to continue to strengthen our capacity as anti-oppressive organizers. Please bring your knowledge, personal experiences, relevant excerpts from books or articles and your desire to learn from one-another through lively discussion!

As always, FJP meetings are open to everyone, so please come and bring your friends! Our meetings are potluck style- bring a snack or beverage to share if you're able.

If you can, please read this paper on Anti-Racist Practice and the Work of Community Food Organizations. Also take a look at the Applied Research Center's The Color of Food, if you are not already familiar with it. In September and October, we will focus on class and gender. Please send suggested readings or speaker ideas to fjp@seattleblobaljustice.org

FACILITATORS:

Carlos R. Alicea Negrón is an environmental scientist, community organizing, teacher, popular education trainer with ample experience in Puerto Rico and United States and Latin American. He is a professor at Center for Literacy and Cultural Democracy where he teaches Environmental Sciences, Introduction Physical Sciences and Geography using a Multicultural Teaching Model. Some examples of the projects and initiatives that Mr. Alicea has been involved are: a) food sovereignty and food justice; b) ecology-environmental educational initiatives ; c) community science development projects; d) community based participatory; e) Environmental Art Festival; and f) The Alliance of the People of Las Americas project in the USA. Carlos is as well a poet and a short story writer.

Bill Aal is Co-Chair of AGRA Watch, and a co-founder of CAGJ. He is deeply involved in social and environmental justice work with a particular focus on agricultural sustainability and social healing. He joined forces with Margo Adair as co-director of Tools for Change whose mission is: "To bring History, Heart Spirit, Vision and Values into the Center of Public Life." Versed in opening the imagination, awakening people's best thinking and inspiring group transformation, Aal works with group reflection to unleash collective genius in organizational settings. He has consulted with a wide variety of social and environmental groups in Washington and around the US. Bill was an active board member of the Washington State Sustainable Food and Farming Network for ten years and was a board member of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. He is co-founder of Riseup.net which builds computer-based communications networks for activists.

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Heather Day, Director

Community Alliance for Global Justice

www.seattleglobaljustice.org

206-724-2243

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CAGJ-FJP is a listserv to support the Community Alliance for Global Justice's Food Justice Project organizing with meeting & event announcements, resources, and more.

Through political action and anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, CAGJ's Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!

http://wwww.seattleglobaljustice.org/food-justice