Posted by Jen 21:31 Wednesday 2008-08-27 | Permalink | Comments( 0 )
Support Our Friends At The Food Project
I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you to support our friends over at the Food Project. They are doing some great work and will be launching a national month of action in mid September for REAL FOOD NOW!
For those of you unfamiliar with the Food Project, they are a really creative organization that work towards a sustainable food system by engaging youth and adults from diverse backgrounds through different types of programs. They also produce healthy, pesticide free food on their farm in Lincoln, MA and donate over half of a quarter of a million pounds of the food they produce to shelters! They sell the rest through CSA's or farmer's markets. Read the bulletin below to see how you can support them during their month of action:
REAL FOOD NOW!
A National Month of Action for a Just and Sustainable Food System
September 21st-October 21st
www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join us this fall for a national month of action for Real Food Now! Stand with thousands of students—including fair trade and farmworkers rights advocates, student farmers, local food champions and campus sustainability leaders—on hundreds of campuses as we act for a more just and sustainable food system. Students and their allies—from Hawaii to New Hampshire—will organize protest potlucks, community teach-ins, and real food roundtables to highlight the need for real change in campus food.
Especially now, as we witness a growing obesity epidemic, soaring food prices, labor abuses in the fields, and the degradation of our land and water, it’s becoming clear that our food system is in crisis. All across the country students are taking action—breaking ground on new community gardens, campaigning for clean energy and local food in their cafeterias, working in solidarity with farmworkers and farmers abroad. Real change is happening on campuses nationwide and students are leading the way!
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The Real Food Now! National Month of Action will:
• Highlight the strength and diversity of the growing student food movement—showcasing the inspiring work that's already happening on campus and in the community.
• Kick off the Real Food Challenge—a national campaign to redirect the $4 billion spent by colleges and universities on food each year to real food, food that is healthy as well as community-based, ecologically sound, fair, and humane.
• Provide an opportunity to take action locally to change our campus food systems—transforming schools into living laboratories for real food solutions.
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Together, we can dramatically transform our food system into one that truly nourishes people, communities and the earth. But to achieve the real change our food system requires, we need you.
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How You Can Help:
Plan an Action—Collaborate with students near you to put on a Real Food Now! Action. Go to: www.realfoodchallenge.org/launch-challenge to get ideas and to share your action with other students across the country.
Spread the Word—Contact students and other allies in your network and get them involved. Forward this announcement and send them to the website.
Link Up—Post a link and some text about the Real Food Now! Month of Action on your website.
Contact Us—If your organization would like to sign on as an endorser or collaborate in other ways, please contact us today.
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For more information and to sign on to Real Food Now! go to www.RealFoodChallenge.org or email RealFoodChallenge@gmail.com
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