Some Winter Events

We are meeting this week about the upcoming CSA season and I will start posting here regularly to keep you updated.

In the meantime, there are some events happening this week and later this month that you may be interested in.

Screening of The Economics of Happiness

Thursday, January 27th

"'Going local' is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world - our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different
future..."

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with producer Helena Norberg-Hodge, Judy Wicks, co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), acclaimed writer Gloria Steinem, and Stacy Mitchell, author and senior researcher with the New Rules Project.

When: 6:30 pm 10:00 pm, Thursday, January 27th

Where: The Great Hall, Cooper Union; 30 Cooper Square (7 East 7th Street),
New York, NY 10003

$15 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)

http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org/other-screenings


What Are the Barriers to Food Sovereignty

Friday, January 28th - 12pm

How do issues of democracy come to bear on our global food systems? Join Raj Patel, writer, academic, and activist as he discusses issues of power and inequality at the heart of the move to a more sustainable, healthy, and hunger-free food system. In assessing the particular domains that help define "food sovereignty" and the challenges faced by those who claim to struggle for such sovereignty, Patel gives us a sense of its scope and the structures of power within the contemporary food system. Raj Patel is both a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and the New York Times and international bestseller The Value of Nothing.

Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY
             Room: Martin E. Segal Theatre
             212-817-2005

Website: http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Admission: Free


Community Engagement Food Justice Working Group

Next meeting February 17th, 6-8pm

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, more than 150 New Yorkers from all five Boroughs convened at the Food Faith and Health Disparities Summit, cosponsored by NY Faith & Justice, Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice, and The Riverside Church in NYC. Participants engaged in a full day of dialogue to develop a prioritized list of actions to help create a more healthy and just NYC.

Six working groups were formed in response to Summit Deliberations: Community Engagement Working Group, Business Outreach Group, The Farm Bill Group, Food and Voter Education Group, Incentives to Purchase Health Foods Group, and Living Wage for Food Workers Group

For more details about getting involved: Visit Here

To Register for a Working Group: Please contact stickner@nyfaithjustice.org or reach me by cell at 917.628.5131.