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
BACS Social Enterprise Kitchen presents our Seeds to Harvest Fundraising Campaign to promote health and economic equity in our community. With guest speaker, Raj Patel, internationally acclaimed author of "Stuffed and Starved." Raj Patel is a former policy analyst at Food First.
This event is a fundraiser forBACS Social Enterprise Kitchen.
Please RSVP by June 13 to jhuston at bayareacs.org
Dr. Holt-Gimenez is the author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture (2006) which chronicles the development of this movement in Mexico and Central America over two and a half decades. Eric conducted extensive research, worked with farmers, participated in their farmer-to-farmer trainings, and recorded their triumphs with camera and pen. Previously, he served as the Latin America Program Manager for the Bank Information Center in Washington D.C.
