Join: Justice in Nigeria Now, Amazon Watch and the CounterCorp Film Festival for a night of film shorts related to the true cost of oil in Nigeria and the Amazon.

Cost: $10 ($5 with student id)

Films include:
The Naked Option - A Last Resort: A work in progress by Candace Schermerhorn is a film about 600 Nigerian women who peacefully protested Chevron’s human rights and environmental abuses with only the threat of publicly stripping naked – a culturally unacceptable taboo.

Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) and other civil society organizations, are initiating a call to observe October 16, 2008, World Food Day as the World Foodless Day. Various groups from Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Korea, Japan, China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mongolia, Hongkong, Indonesia, Philippines, Uganda and Kenya have expressed their intention to participate in this event, assert people's food sovereignty and commit to a Day of Global Action with simultaneous events, protest actions and activities.

It’s time to grow local! Growing food in the city can increase access to healthy food, create job and economic opportunities and build community self reliance. Securing sustained access to land for food production is the first and one of the most important steps for almost all urban and suburban agriculture projects. Join us for a day of information, discussion and training on how to secure land in your community for food production aimed at increasing access for low-income/food stamp eligible communities.

Moderator is Cynthia Gorney, professor of journalism, University of California at Berkeley.

Panel speakers include:

Michael Dimock, President of Roots of Change and founder of Ag Innovations Network

Judith Redmond, Co-owner of Full Belly Farm and board president of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Michael Pollan, Knight professor of journalism, UC Berkeley and author of In Defense of Food

Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State and co-founder of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Gimenez shares the podium with Ali Sharif, founder of Permaculture America Latina (PAL) and Panfilo Tabora of Earth University in Costa Rica which is a living laboratory of sustainable practices.

Registration information: www.bioneers.org/conference
Ph: 505-986-0366

Imhoff is the president and co-founder of Watershed Media, a non-profit publishing house based in Healdsburg, California. He also is the president and co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance, a national organization that works to promote agriculture systems that support and accommodate wild nature.

Kaleita, who has a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering, teaches courses in soil and water conservation management and engineering at Iowa State University in Ames. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching both at Iowa State and at the University of Illinois where she earned her doctorate in 2003. Kaleita has published articles in both the academic and popular press and is an environmental studies fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. She is particularly interested in the role of globalization in engineering and technology education.

Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology in NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and as Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the politics of food with an emphasis on the role food marketing as a determinant of dietary choice. She is the author of Food Politics and Safe Food and is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition.