We had a terrific farm lunch today with Eleazar. For those of you who couldn't make it today or would like to learn more he will also be speaking this Thursday evening! Here are the details.
Witness for Peace Northwest & CAGJ present:
Food Sovereignty and the Roots of Migration: Defending Corn and Culture in Oaxaca
Food Sovereignty and the Roots of Migration: Defending Corn and Culture in Oaxaca
Location: New Hope Baptist Church, 116 21st Avenue in Central District.
Light refreshments will be served.
Featured speaker: Eleazar Garcia, Sustainable Agriculture Expert from CEDICAM - Center for Integral Small Farmer Development of the Mixteca, Awarded with the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2008.
And hear a Report-Back from CAGJ & Seattle delegates recently returned from Oaxaca!
Eleazar Garcia will address the devastating impacts the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on the Mexican countryside, including an abandonment of traditional sustainable ways of life of small farmers, as well as a boom in rural Mexican migration to the United States. Speaking from his experience of seeing this devastation first hand, Eleazar will present a hopeful alternative that is being carried out to preserve the land, and to stem the tide of migrants leaving rural Mexico for the U.S.
Co-Sponsored by Witness for Peace Northwest & Community Alliance for Global Justice
More about Eleazar's talk here: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/article.php?id=1191
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Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
Education Coordinator - UW Farm
206.550.4622
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
Education Coordinator - UW Farm
206.550.4622
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