Green Guerillas
Since 1973 greenguerillas™ has helped thousands of people realize their dreams of turning vacant rubble-strewn lots into vibrant community gardens. Each year we work with hundreds of grassroots groups throughout New York City to strengthen underserved neighborhoods through community gardening. With our help, people grow food, plant flowers, educate youth, paint colorful murals and preserve their gardens as vital community centers for future generations.
Community Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability. CFSC has over 250 member organizations.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
From the Bay Area to Port-au-Prince: Creating Food Sovereignty in Haiti
Keynote speaker Pierre La Bossiere, longtime activist with the Haiti Action Committee, will clarify the current political and social situation. Presentations and discussions will follow focused on how issues of Food Justice and Food Sovereignty are working out on the ground in Haiti in relation to international aid and the impacts of the earthquake.
CLIMATE SUMMIT IN CANCUN NOV-DEC 2010 - HELP THOUSANDS OF PEASANTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD
An appeal from Via Campesina:
We are peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world.
* Our sustainable farming practices cool the planet
* We defend the Mother Earth
* Help us say NO to false solutions to climate change!
We ask to you support a massive presence of peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world at the Climate Change Summit (COP-16) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10, 2010.
Women united for food sovereignty and against violence towards women
Report by Via Campesina
In Maputo, Mozambique, on the occasion of the international seminar on building alliances for food sovereignty and against violence towards women held in Maputo from July 26 to 29, La Via Campesina worked together with World March of Women (WMW), Friends of the Earth Intenational (FoEI) and women of the countryside from Asia and Africa and shared our ideas to plan our work on women.
Watch Me Grow - Three year olds gardening
Food First Fellow Raj Patel speaking on creating democracy in the food system
Fair Food Fight
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