Food Fight! All Lives
Matter!
kkfi.org 90.1 FM Kansas City, MO Community Radio Program
"This is about waging love; we love ourselves, we love our children, we
love the earth, we love all of life. So This is not a protest this is
actually an act of waging love. The love we are talking about is the
love of life not the love of death." Charity Mahouna Hicks
A call to Greater KC and beyond, to organize ourselves to build our collective power to transform our relationships with our global, big corporate, industrialized food, agriculture and socioeconomic systems, in order to build truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable systems and livelihoods with dignity for farm and food workers and small and family farmers alike.
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| Artwork by Ryan Tenney. |
- 4-5pm CT, Saturday, August 30, 2014
- KKFI, 90.1 FM, kkfi.org, Kansas City, MO
- On-air call-in number 816 931 5534
We're fighting for our lives like Michael
Vic's 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!"
http://sosjuice.com/foodfight/
With Host Donna Morrow Wolfe, Urban Connections, long time
KC community activist, and co-host, Maria Whitaker, Program Director, Local to
Global Advocates for Justice, and KC Food Justice.
Donna Morrow Wolfe
Donna Morrow Wolfe
Inspired by the work of The Praxis Project to strengthen the capacity of
communities to create sustainable, progressive change, in 2011, Maria Whittaker founded Local2Global Advocates for Food Sovereignty (L2GAFS) .
Whittaker, a Greater Kansas City (GKC) based attorney, horticulturalist and food sovereignty advocate, says that L2GAFS is comprised of “the individuals most directly and negatively impacted by our unhealthy and unjust food, farm and socioeconomic systems, policies and practices, committed to grassroots community organizing to strengthen their collective power, coming together, to explore the formation of, and interest in, the creation of local, national and global alliances to represent and promote their interests on issues of food and agriculture, environmental, economic and social justice.”
Their seven guiding principles of food sovereignty (La Via Campesina) are:
1. The basic human right to sufficient amounts of healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food;
2. True agrarian reform including the nondiscriminatory access to land, credit, training, technology, markets and everything needed to farm and garden;
3. Sustainable agriculture and the preservation of natural resources;
4. Ending the big, corporate control of food and agriculture;
5. Fair rather than free trade;
6. Ending all forms of oppression in our food and agriculture systems including the exploitation of farm and food workers; and
7. Social Peace is a prerequisite to food sovereignty.
In 2012, L2GAFS launched a local initiative, KC Food Justice,composed of community members, grassroots organizing ourselves from the bottom-up, to build our collective strength to transform the power relationships and institutional structures that determine our food, health, wealth and sustainability, through advocacy for truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable food, farm, and socioeconomic systems, policies and practices.
Tune in on the radio in Kansas City at 90.1 FM or online anywhere in the world at kkfi.org from 4 to 5 pm the last Saturday of every month to catch our new show, Food Fight! Call in with your questions and comments at 816 931 5334 to the on-air studio anytime between 4 to 5 pm CT the last Saturday of every month.
Whittaker, a Greater Kansas City (GKC) based attorney, horticulturalist and food sovereignty advocate, says that L2GAFS is comprised of “the individuals most directly and negatively impacted by our unhealthy and unjust food, farm and socioeconomic systems, policies and practices, committed to grassroots community organizing to strengthen their collective power, coming together, to explore the formation of, and interest in, the creation of local, national and global alliances to represent and promote their interests on issues of food and agriculture, environmental, economic and social justice.”
Their seven guiding principles of food sovereignty (La Via Campesina) are:
1. The basic human right to sufficient amounts of healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food;
2. True agrarian reform including the nondiscriminatory access to land, credit, training, technology, markets and everything needed to farm and garden;
3. Sustainable agriculture and the preservation of natural resources;
4. Ending the big, corporate control of food and agriculture;
5. Fair rather than free trade;
6. Ending all forms of oppression in our food and agriculture systems including the exploitation of farm and food workers; and
7. Social Peace is a prerequisite to food sovereignty.
In 2012, L2GAFS launched a local initiative, KC Food Justice,composed of community members, grassroots organizing ourselves from the bottom-up, to build our collective strength to transform the power relationships and institutional structures that determine our food, health, wealth and sustainability, through advocacy for truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable food, farm, and socioeconomic systems, policies and practices.
Tune in on the radio in Kansas City at 90.1 FM or online anywhere in the world at kkfi.org from 4 to 5 pm the last Saturday of every month to catch our new show, Food Fight! Call in with your questions and comments at 816 931 5334 to the on-air studio anytime between 4 to 5 pm CT the last Saturday of every month.
If you would like to be a guest on the show or have
suggestions or comments, we welcome you to email Maria Whittaker
foodsovereignty@yahoo.com with Food Fight! in the heading. We particularly
envision lifting-up the work of those most directly and negatively impacted by
our food, agriculture and socioeconomic systems as well as youth.
The objectives of this show are to:
1. Raise
consciousness of the impact of our global, big corporate, industrialized, food
system on our health, wealth and sustainability and especially the health,
wealth and sustainability of our children; and to:
2. Act as a vehicle
for us to:
1.1. Organize
ourselves inclusively, from the bottom-up, to take actions to change our food,
agriculture, and socio-economic systems so that they serve our health, wealth
and sustainability;
1.2. Take immediate
actions now to actualize our basic human right to sufficient amounts of
healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food and improve our lifestyles
by increasing our physical activity and human relationships, by connecting
people to concrete self-help programs that , provide services such as organic
gardening, mobile food pantries, healthy food pantries, and healthy lifestyle
support programs, including diabetes and hypertension management, already in existence but not yet reaching
them; and to:
2.3. Take collective actions on food policies such as food
stamps and farm subsidies to immediately actualize our basic human right to healthy,
nutritious and culturally appropriate food for all.
KC Food Justice list
serve
The easiest way to join our list serve,
kcfoodjustice@lists.riseup.net, where we share news of upcoming events,
information and analyses of the nexus of modernization, capitalism, food,
health, class, race, all forms of oppression and social justice, is to send an
email to:
kcfoodjustice-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
and you will be automatically be added. We send out anywhere
from 1 to 9 messages a month.
If you would like Maria to talk to your group about food
sovereignty, food and health, climate justice, or any related topics, please email her at foodsovereignty@yahoo.com.
She will be available for speaking engagements in the Kansas City area
beginning Monday June 16, 2014.
For more information about Urban Connections and Donna Wolfe
and to see a list, description and MP3’s from previous shows please visit
www.kkfi.org/program/urban-connections.
For more information about LGAJ, KC Food Justice, and Maria
Whittaker visit fssg.blogspot.com and
foodhealthenvironmentaljustice.blogspot.com. 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.
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