**ATTENTION** The lovely Maria Whittaker has asked us to join her this Saturday at 4pm for her radio show Food Fight on KKFI 90.1, to discuss the march and our further actions within the community! Show of hands who is available for this? ~~~~~~~~~~ About Food Fight! All Lives Matter! A call to Greater KC and beyond, to organize ourselves to build our collective strength to transform our relationships with our global, big corporate, industrialized food, agriculture and socio-economic systems, in order to build truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable systems which provide livelihoods with dignity for farm and food workers, and small and family farmers. Poor diets kill more brothers than pistols. Were fighting for our lives like Michael Vics pit bulls. Dog eat dog, America eats the young, We die from beef, but more from meat than the gun. Bullets for breakfast and mass murder meals. Enemy of the state, and your plate is the battlefield in this FOOD FIGHT! sosjuice/foodfight/ • 4-5pm CT, the last Saturday of every month • KKFI, 93.1 FM, kkfi.org anywhere in the world Kansas City, MO • On-air call-in number 816 931 5534 • kkfi.org/program/urban-connections; fssg.blogspot With KKFI KCMO Community Radio Urban Connections host and long-time Kansas City community activist Donna Morrow Wolfe, kkfi.org/program/urban-connections, and co-host, Maria Whitaker, Program Director, Local to Global Advocates for Justice, and KC Food Justice, fssg.blogspot, foodhealthenvironmentaljustice. Donna Morrow Wolfe Maria Whittaker with Deyvon(6) and Sherrie(4) ( and their little cousin) If you would like to be a guest on the show or have suggestions or comments, we welcome you to email Maria Whittaker at foodsovereignty@yahoo with Food Fight! in the heading. We particularly envision lifting-up the work of youth and those communities the most negatively and directly impacted by our food, agriculture and socioeconomic systems. Objectives Raise consciousness of the impact of our global, big corporate, industrialized, food system on our health, wealth, justice and sustainability, and to 2. Act as a vehicle for us to: 2.1. Organize ourselves inclusively, from the bottom-up, to build our collective strength to transform our relationships with our global, big corporate food and agriculture systems in order to build truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable food and agriculture systems which create livelihoods with dignity for farm and food workers and small and family farmers; 2.2. Take immediate actions now to actualize our basic human right to sufficient amounts of healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food and improve community health and wealth by connecting people to programs already in existence, but not yet reaching them, such as: doubling their food stamps, organic gardening, mobile food pantries, healthy free food pantries, organic farmer training programs and healthy lifestyle support programs, including diabetes and hypertension management, and to: 2.3. Take grassroots advocacy on food policies such as food stamps and farm subsidies to immediately actualize our basic human right to healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. KC Food Justice List Serve The easiest way to join our list serve, [email protected], where we share news of upcoming events, information and analyses of the nexus of modernization, capitalism, food, health, equality and justice is to send an email to: [email protected]. You will be automatically be added. We send out anywhere from 1 to 9 messages a month. In Conclusion If you would like Maria to talk to your group about food and health justice, climate justice or related topics, please email her at foodsovereignty@yahoo. She will be available for speaking engagements in the Kansas City area beginning Monday June 16, 2014. Also check out our facebook pages, Local to Global Advocates for Justice and Food, Health and Environmental Justice Coalition. For more information about our work check out our facebook groups, Food and Health Justice KC, Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba: Growing Food without Oil; and African Food Sovereignty.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:41:46 +0000
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