|
Food Justice:It's What's for Dinner Yesterday's Food Justice: It's What's for Dinner was a resounding success! With 150 people in attendance, folks were famished for justice. One attendee said about the event: I’ve attended lots of events on food issues generally. What made this event special was that it presented a holistic approach to thinking about food justice, bringing to light farm worker rights, food access and affordability of fresh and healthy foods in the context of the broader discussion. This event engaged with food justice through many lenses: the personal, the political, the spiritual, the humanistic, the ecological and the ethical. Best of all, I walked away inspired and with concrete steps to put ideas into action. Click here to read a piece in this week's East Bay Express on the event.Couldn't make it? Still hungry for more? Come to PJA's Community Fundraising Dinner on
October 15th. And save the date for Rags to Righteousness: a Sweatshop Free Fashion Show on November 8th.
PJA, in partnership with American Jewish World Service-AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Partnership, invites you to join us for a community event featuring Mollie Katzen, best-selling author of the groundbreaking "Bible of vegetarian cooking," The Moosewood Cookbook among numerous other cookbooks, a delicious local organic buffet dinner, a foodie social justice networking bazaar, a preview of the film Food Stamped, and a panel discussion with local food justice activists. Wednesday, September 9, 2009David Brower Center2150 Allston Way, Berkeley6:00-9:00 PM$5 - $55 Sliding ScaleProceeds go to City Slicker Farms: Growing Affordable Fresh Produce for West Oakland. The panel features:
- Adam Berman (moderator), founder of the Adamah Fellowship at Isabella Freedman
- Zelig Golden, Attorney for the Center for Food Safety
- Emily Freed, Farmer at Jacobs Farm
- Willow Rosenthal, Founder of City Slicker Farms
- Chaya Ryvka Diehl, Chef at Living Vision
|