Food Sovereignty Action Gathering
Submitted by Stephen Bartlett on March 26, 2007 - 8:37am.
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This session will be on: June 30, 2007 - 10:30am It will be held at: Atlanta Ballroom E room at the Westin Hotel View scheduleOrganization DescriptionAgricultural Missions, Inc (AMI) is an ecumenical agency working in solidarity with rural people's organizations and social movements to defend sustainable, small-scale family and community based farming and healthy food and land. We aim to facilitate the strengthening of the rural sector to defend against the onslaught of corporate monopoly and industrialized agriculture, and to educate and raise consciousness about the economic and agricultural policies aimed to displace the people of the land, among the churches and the general society. The organization was founded in 1930 and since the 1970s has taken on the solidarity and accompaniment role, with gender equity and racial equality as transversal principles. Proposal Demographicsidentify as women identify as people of color are immigrants (not born in U.S.) are artists/cultural workers are 65 years or older Session DescriptionAMI would field a panel to stimulate thought and make connections among interrelated sectors related to healthy food, economic justice for farmers and farmworkers, and sustainable models of agriculture. This would be followed by a wide ranging dialog with participants with an eye to building common actions. These actions would be oriented towards strengthening on-going campaigns for justice for farmworkers (CIW, FLOC, others), towards reforming the US Farm Bill 2007, combatting market busting trade agreements and international top down policy (ie WTO, IMF, WB, IDB, etc...), and towards strengthening the Fair Trade and Sustainable Agriculture Movements, including efforts to rebuild local food economies. First NameStephen Last NameBartlett Contact E-mailsbartlett@ag-missions.org Proposing OrganizationAgricultural Missions Inc. (AMI) Organization Websitewww.agriculturalmissions.org Position or TitleCoordinator for Education Contact Telephone502 894 9308 Alternate Telephone212 870 2553 Event DaySaturday, June 30th (Strategizing the Achieving of Another World) Contact AddressAgricultural Missions, 475 Riverside Drive, Rm 725 Contact CityNew York KeywordsAnti-corporate power Antiracism Common goods Community organizing and local development Cross border trade Ecology and sustainability Economy/ies (inc. Social/Solidarity Economies) Farmers, peasants (see also Agriculture, Land, & Rural Issues) Food, food sovereignty (See also Agriculture, Land, & Rural Issues) Social exclusion Audience Number100-250 people Contact StateNY Contact ZIP10115 Person ReviewingTheeba Soundararajan |