The fight over food deserts: Corporate America smacks its way down
Huffington Post - July 14, 2010
By Eric Holt-Giménez with Annie Shattuck and Zoe Brent
This June the City of Chicago approved Wal-Mart's bid to open up dozens of new facilities, beginning with grocery stores in the city's chronically underserved South side. Just a month earlier the company committed $2 billion dollars to fight hunger in the U.S. But behind the high profile donations is a decidedly less charitable story repeating itself throughout corporate America.
Food Sovereignty Chronicles III - Growing outside the box
Huffington Post - July 2, 2010
My (grown) children were in Detroit, making it a family affair. Daughter Evarosa took a tour of Detroit's urban gardens and provided me with this account:
Food Sovereignty Chronicles II
From Food Justice to Food Sovereignty
By Eric Holt-Giménez
I spent most of my time at the US Social Forum between the huge COBO center where many of the workshops were held and the "tent village" where U.S. Food Justice groups and Food Sovereignty movements from Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua met to hammer out the next steps in building a local-global food movement strong enough to transform our current food systems.
Haiti: an occupied food system
Food Sovereignty Chronicles - I
Huffington Post - June 29, 2010
Eric Holt-Giménez
Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Posted: June 29, 2010 06:54 PM
Beyond the din of the World Cup in Johannesburg, and just south of the protests of the ill-fated G-20 Summit in Toronto , the U.S. Social Forum was in full swing. So much so, that I didn't get a chance to blog while at the event! Nevertheless, on the 3-day drive back from Detroit to Oakland, CA, I managed to chronicle some of the path-breaking work activists at the forum did on food sovereignty. Here is the first installment:
Why is feeding the hungry so controversial?
14 Jun 2010 11:43:35 GMT
Source: IRIN
NEW YORK , 14 June 2010 (IRIN) - The US Senate is expected to pass the Global Food Security Act, new legislation that would significantly expand the government's commitment to combating hunger worldwide with a broad range of measures and more money, and a special coordinator, or "food czar", to oversee implementation of these provisions across agencies.
Macro Problems, Micro Distractions? Grameen America expands to D.C. and Bay Area
Eric Holt-Giménez with Jennifer Kampe
Revitalize Rural America? First Grow Some Backbone
By Eric Holt-Giménez with Annie Shattuck
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack recently declared a "silent" crisis in rural America. Silent? The American farmers testifying at the joint antitrust listening sessions held by the USDA and Department of Justice (DoJ) were loud enough. If their denunciation of the monopolies controlling our food system--and government inaction on antitrust abuse--is silence, it is only because their voices fell on deaf ears.
A Tale of Three Cities: The global struggle over who will end hunger
pdf is Spanish translation.
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by Eric Holt-Giménez
Published in Huffington Post, May 23, 2010
Oakland Museum hosted a panel on Food Justice
Excerpt from an article by Rena Ragimova published in Oakland Local
May 3, 2010
A highlight of the day was the last of the California Futures talks, which were held throughout the weekend in the museum's new Blue Oak Cafe.
Mediated by Blue Oak's chef, Robert Dorsey III, the panel [of food justice leaders] discussed food accessibility challenges many Oaklanders face. Brahm Ahmadi, former executive director of People's Grocery, started the conversation with a brief history lesson in food culture and economics in Oakland.
Farmworker Freedom March: PUBLIX! Listen to the workers!
Huffington Post Blog by Eric Holt-Giménez
April 18, 2010
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Interfaith Action and the Student-Farmworkes Alliance are marching to end modern-day slavery in the United States. They also want Publix, the major food retail chain in Florida to agree to pay farmworkers 1 cent more a bucket for the tomatoes they pick.
Numbering nearly a thousand strong, protesters have been marching for two days, from Plant City, Florida, to Lakeland. Today the workers and their supporters, converged on Publix supermarket in the bustling agricultural town of Lakeland.