This is an opportunity to look at what changes to the farm bill could benefit local food security. We will examine the obstacles and identify opportunities for creating local, sustainable, and equitable food system.
We invite you to participate and encourage you to let others know about the Forum. For information on the Oakland Forum, the Farm Bill, and how you can help, please contact Food First at foodfirst@foodfirst.org
Co-sponsors of this event include the CA Food and Justice Coalition and the Community Food Security Coalition.
Dr. Lori Ann Thrupp of Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards.
November 10-12. www.greenfestival.org
A joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America. Learn about fair trade, organic foods, green building and energy, community action, socially responsible investing and more.
Speakers:
Ian M. Zlotolow who recently returned from the Millennium Village in Koraro, Ethiopia.
Mulugeta L. Handino, Food First Intern, Program Coordinator of EcoVillage Farm Learning Center, and former agricultural extension worker in Ethiopia. He will speak on Alternative Community Food Security Approaches.
Sponsored by EcoVillage Farm Learning Center and Food First.
Longtime Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser were close to retirement when they were suprisingly sued by Monsanto in 1998. Monsanto claimed that the Schmeisers were illegally growing patented Monsanto GE RoundUp Ready Canola. The Schmeisers, victims of unwanted GE contamination, decuded to take his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Co-hosted by Sheana Davis of Epicurean Connection,Percy Schmeiser will be joined by special guest, Peggy Miars of California Certified Organic Farmers.
Questions: call 831-423-2263. There is a $10 donation requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Longtime Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser were close to retirement when they were suprisingly sued by Monsanto in 1998. Monsanto claimed that the Schmeisers were illegally growing patented Monsanto GE RoundUp Ready Canola. The Schmeisers, victims of unwanted GE contamination, decuded to take his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Co-hosted by Sheana Davis of Epicurean Connection,Percy Schmeiser will be joined by special guests, U.C. Professor, Ignacio Chapela and Author and U.C. Professor, Michael Pollan.
Questions: call 510-847-7141. This event is sponsored by the California Certified Organic Farmers.
Heather Coburn Flores, founder of Food not Lawns and HOPE Farm and author of Food not Lawns with Nora Maccoby, filmmaker.
Join food experts and city supervisors. Speakers include supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Ross Mirkarimi, Christopher Cook who is author of Diet for A Dead Planet, and Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First.
Longtime Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser were close to retirement when they were suprisingly sued by Monsanto in 1998. Monsanto claimed that the Schmeisers were illegally growing patented Monsanto GE RoundUp Ready Canola. The Schmeisers, victims of unwanted GE contamination, decuded to take his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Co-hosted by Sheana Davis of Epicurean Connection,Percy Schmeiser will be joined by special guest, Britt Bailey of the Environmental Commons.
Questions: call 707-935-7960. There is a $10 donation requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donations help to fund the Schmeiser's fight with Monsanto.
Fernando Coronil, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor will speak on the Bodies of Evidence: Truths and Secrets in the Coup Against Hugo Chavez.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Venezuela Studies Group, the Dean of International and Area Studies, the Townsend Center, the Dean of Letters and Science, and the Program for Chicano and Latino Studies.
For more information about the entire two-day symposium call 510-642-2088 or 510-642-0471.
Black Gold follows Tadesse Meskela, General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia as he fights for a living wage for the 70,000 coffee farmers he represents. For every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer typically receives just 3 cents, with most of the money going to four giant conglomerates.
Showings at 6:30 and 8pm will be followed by a panel of fair trade activists including Food First intern, Mulugeta Handino,who formerly provided technical assistance to farmers in Ethiopia.
To learn more go to: www.oxfamamerica.org/blackgold
Longtime Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser were close to retirement when they were suprisingly sued by Monsanto in 1998. Monsanto claimed that the Schmeisers were illegally growing patented Monsanto GE RoundUp Ready Canola. The Schmeisers, victims of unwanted GE contamination, decuded to take his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Co-hosted by Sheana Davis of Epicurean Connection,Percy Schmeiser will be joined by special guest, Britt Bailey of the Environmental Commons.
Questions: call 707-468-3012. There is a $10 donation requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donations help to fund the Schmeiser's fight with Monsanto.
The guest speaker is Ubon Yuwa, coordinator of the Alternative Agriculture Network in Northeast Thailand. Mr. Yuwa is the Southeast Asia representative of Via Campesina, the International farmers movement, advocating for the rights of small-scale farmers.
Event sponsors include Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture(MESA), ENGAGE-Global Social Action,Marin Organic, and Regerative Design Institute.
$5 suggested donation. For more information call Sara Smith-Rubio at 415-868-9673.
30 Indigenous and other speakers from every continent including Winona LaDuke, John Mohawk,Vandana Shiva, and Goldman Award Winner, Luis Macas of Ecuador. This is the occasion for release of a book edited by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz of the Philippines, and titled Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization. This is a Sierra Club book containing 28 reports of indigenous resistance to global corporations, the World Bank, IMF and WTO which pose direct threats to indigenous lands and sovereignty.
Steve Ellner, Professor of History at Universidad del Oriente will speak.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Venezuela Studies Group, the Dean of International and Area Studies, the Townsend Center, the Dean of Letters and Science, and the Program for Chicano and Latino Studies.
For more information about the entire two-day symposium call 510-642-2088 or 510-642-0471.
Longtime Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser were close to retirement when they were suprisingly sued by Monsanto in 1998. Monsanto claimed that the Schmeisers were illegally growing patented Monsanto GE RoundUp Ready Canola. The Schmeisers, victims of unwanted GE contamination, decuded to take his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Co-hosted by Sheana Davis of Epicurean Connection,Percy Schmeiser will be joined by special guest, Britt Bailey of the Environmental Commons.
Questions: call 707-882-3425. There is a $10 donation requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donations help to fund the Schmeiser's fight with Monsanto.
Join Global Exchange and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems of UC Santa Cruz for a 10-day trip to Havana to learn how Cuba became a leader in organic and urban agriculture. Contact Zach Hurwitz at 800-497-2994 or zach@globalexchange.org
To qualify for this trip you must be a full-time farmer or gardener/educator, or university instructor or researcher.
