Saturday May 17, 2008 10 A.M.-8P.M. and Sunday, May 18,2008 11 A.M.-6 P.M.

Speakers, green businesses, films, fair trade, yoga and movement classes, organic cuisine and beer, live music.

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Sponsored by Global Exchange and Co-op America.

The University of San Francisco, in conjunction with the Global Commons Foundation and Food First invites you to a discussion with Raj Patel, Author of the book Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System. Respondents will be Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First and Monica Moore, founder of Pesticide Action Network North America.

Attendance is free.
The event is followed by a hosted reception.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

Speakers:
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University ILR School and editor of the new book, "Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns."

Augustin Ramirez, ILWU Lead Organizer, who worked on the international campaign targeting Blue Diamond Growers.

Valery Alzaga, SEIU Global Department Regional Campaign Coordinator, who helped coordinate the Justice for Cleaners campaign in London with T&G.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

With the unprecedented rise in food prices causing mass hunger around the world, a coalition of farmer organizations, churches, and social justice organizations in the U.S. and abroad, will be staging a 3-day Fast in Solidarity with the Famished of the World running Thursday evening through Sunday evening, 3 days corresponding to the 3 billion people now living under $2 per day.

Fasting is a powerful spiritual practice with the capacity to transform lives and unjust social structures.

Speakers include Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva,Majora Carter, Congressman Ed Markey,Judy Wicks, Michael Shuman, David Korten, Michelle Long, Laury Hammel,Don Shaffer, Manuel Hidalgo and more.

To register go to www.livingeconomies.org