Food Fight! All Lives Matter! Radio Program
Local Greater Kansas
City Food Activists March Against
Monsanto 2014!
· Jill
Valentine and her 9 yr old son Tristan,
· Angela
Cooper and her 17 year old daughter Keyleigh Cooper and 9 year old son, Bobby Toska, and
·
Eric King.
Today’s Guests are
local KC community members turned activists out of concern for their and their
children’s health.
· 4-5pm CT, Saturday May 31, 2014
· KKFI, 93.1 FM, kkfi.org anywhere in
the world Kansas City, MO
· On-air call-in number 816 931 5534
Food Fight!
All Lives Matter Radio Program is a call to Greater KC and beyond, to
organize ourselves to build our collective strength to transform our power relationships
with the big, global, industrialized food and agriculture corporations, in
order to build truly healthy, just, fair
and sustainable food, agriculture and
socioeconomic systems which provide livelihoods with dignity for farm and food
workers, and small and family farmers.
More information about today’s
Guests.
Jill
Valentine, 29, is a mother of two boys and a local activist
that has organized for March Against Monsanto (MAM) since its beginning. Jill
got involved out of concern for other parents like herself and the future of
our children. Says Jill:
“[W]e
(parents) were so busy doing the best we could to provide for and protect our children
that we didn't see what was deliberately
being hidden from us right under our noses on the dinner table. So many in our
community still haven't heard of Monsanto, and yet are being diagnosed with
cancers, food allergies, diabetes and other illnesses at such young ages. I
will not rest until every parent is made aware.”
Tristan, Jill’s
beautiful, nine year old son, is just finishing 4th grade. Jill is
homeschooling him. He's helped collect and deliver donations for natural
disaster victims, and he played a big part in helping organize MAM for Kansas
City.
Angela Cooper, shown here with her beautiful 17 year old daughter
Keyleigh Cooper, who graduated one year early from high school and is planning
on attending college this fall, vivacious 8 year old son Bobby Toska, who is in
second grade and loves baseball, and her
husband, is with The Children of Vietnam
Veteran Health Alliance. She knows the
past crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Monsanto Corporation
headquartered in St. Louis. She has joined this fight to stop Monsanto from
poisoning us with our food. She is deeply concerned with food safety and
recognizes that it is a global issue.
Eric King is 28 years old and a college graduate. He became
an activist after visiting Cairo, Egypt and witnessing some of the worst global
poverty first hand. This trip helped him to understand how global
socio-economic policy created poverty and human degradation. Eric has
previously participated in three rallies against Monsanto. Says Eric, Monsanto
is far too dangerous to sit on our hands. Opines Eric further, Monsanto’s
influence over our government, including the executive branch, is out of
control; their products are frightening, and they have a legal stronghold over
farmers here in the US and around the globe.
Hosts
Food Fight! All Lives Matter is hosted by KKFI KCMO Community
Radio Urban Connections host and long-time Kansas City community activist Donna Morrow Wolfe, www.kkfi.org/program/urban-connections,
and co-host, Maria Whitaker, Program Director, Local to Global Advocates for
Justice, and KC Food Justice, fssg.blogspot.com,
foodhealthenvironmentaljustice.com.
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.com
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 of Food Fight! All
Lives Matter!
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,
kcfoodjustice@lists.riseup.net, 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:
kcfoodjustice-subscribe@lists.riseup.net.
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.com. 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.
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