Sat, June 28, 2014 4 PM CT Eric Holt-Gimenez, ED Food First, kkfi.org, 90.1 FM KC Food Fight! Radio Program
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Food Fight! All Lives Matter!
Eric Holt-Gimenez, ED, Food First (click below to listen to this interview)
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- KKFI, 90.1 FM, kkfi.org, Kansas City, MO
- 4-5 pm CT, Saturday, 28 June 2014
- On-air call-in number 816 931 5533
A call to citizens of Greater KC and beyond, to organize ourselves from
the bottom-up. We are organizing inclusively to build our collective strength. We seek to transform our power relationships
with our global, big corporate, industrialized food, agriculture and
socio-economic systems, in order to build truly healthy, just, fair and sustainable
systems. These systems will also provide livelihoods with dignity for farm and food workers, and
small and family farmers alike.
"Poor diets kill more brothers than pistols.
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!"
Eric Holt-
Gimenez
Eric Holt-Giménez is the Executive
Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, a
"peoples' think-and-do tank" dedicated to eliminating the injustices
that cause hunger and environmental degradation. Previously, he worked as Latin
American Program Manager at the Bank Information Center in Washington, DC,
where he monitored the projects and policies of the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank.
He has held positions as a lecturer
in International Development and Agroecology at the University of California
and Boston University's Global Ecology program. Throughout the 1970s, '80s, and
'90s, Dr. Holt-Giménez lived and worked in Latin America where he helped
organize and train farm leaders in agroecology and was a consultant to
non-governmental organizations, government ministries, and foreign aid
agencies. In his path-breaking participatory research, "Measuring Farmer's
Agroecological Resistance to Hurricane Mitch," 2,000 farmers documented
the superior sustainability of agroecologically-managed farms to conventional
farms in Central America. His first book, Campesino a Campesino,
chronicles nearly 30 years' work with Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement
for sustainable agriculture. In his recent book Food Rebellions! Crisis and
the Hunger for Justice, co-authored with Raj
Patel and Annie Shattuck, Dr. Holt-Giménez proposes equitable,
sustainable solutions to the root causes of the global food crisis. He holds a
Master's of Science in International Agricultural Development and a Ph.D. in
Environmental Studies.
About
Food First
The mission of the
Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, is to
end the injustices that cause hunger.
Founded in 1975 by
Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappé—author of the revolutionary bestseller
Diet for a Small Planet—Food First envisions a world in which all people have
access to healthy, ecologically produced and culturally appropriate food. After
nearly 40 years of analysis of the global food system, we know that making this
vision a reality involves more than technical solutions—it requires political
transformation. That’s why Food First supports activists, social movements,
alliances and coalitions working for systemic change. The Food First team
consists of a large network of committed activists and scholars who produce
cutting-edge analysis and educational resources, and who work closely with
grassroots social movements. Our
work—including action-oriented research, publications, projects and Food
Sovereignty Tours—gives you the tools to understand the global challenges,
build your local movement, and engage with the global movement for food
sovereignty.
Board of Directors
Board
President | Professor of Education, Georgia State University
Joyce E. King is a graduate of
Stanford University where she received a PhD in the Social Foundations of
Education and a BA degree in Sociology.
Board
Treasurer | Social Entrepreneur & Food Justice Activist
Hank Herrera is President & CEO
of the Center for Popular Research, Education & Policy (C-PREP), which
serves vulnerable communities with participatory action research, training,
technical assistance and policy.
Board
Secretary | Socially Responsible Travel Professional
Malia Everette, CEO of Altruvistas,
works to promote experiential education and socially responsible travel.
Board
Member | Attorney and Health Advocate
Gaye Adams Massey served as Senior
Deputy General Counsel for United Health Group from 2007 to 2013, overseeing
legal teams advising on issues including privacy, technology and non-for-profit
foundation legal issues.
Board
Member | Founder and CEO of People's Community Market in Oakland
Brahm Ahmadi is a social
entrepreneur working to build healthier and more equitable inner city
communities by creating change to the food system.
Board
Member | Jazz Musician and Faculty at the University of San Francisco
Pascal Bokar Thiam is a Jazz
guitarist and vocalist of Senegalese and French background who teaches jazz and
world music courses in San Francisco, CA.
Board
Member | Expert on global governance, finance & sustainability
Michael Dorsey is interim Director
of the energy and environment program at the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies.
Board
Member | Farmworker Justice Activist
Rosalinda Guillén is a widely
recognized farmworker justice leader, working to promote farmworker rights in
Washington State.
Board
Member | Founder of Newsome Community Farms, Tulsa, OK
Demalda Newsome runs Newsome
Community Farms and the North Tulsa Farmer’s Market, working to empower
low-income communities.
Board
Member | Professor of Anthropology, Ethnic Studies and Environmental Studies,
University of Washington
Devon Peña is a teacher, farmer,
anthropologist and founder/president of The Acequia Institute.
Board
Member | Founder of EcoVillage Farm Learning Center in Richmond, CA
Shayam Shabaka promotes sustainable agriculture; public health; and environmental, social and economic justice in low-income communities in the US and Africa.
Board
Member | Executive Director of Green for All in Oakland, CA
Nikki Silvestri is the Executive
Director of Green for All and served as Executive Director of People's Grocery
in Oakland, CA from 2010 to 2013.
Board
Member | President and CEO of Metro Atlanta Urban Farm
Bobby L. Wilson is President and CEO
of Metro Atlanta Urban Farm in Atlanta, GA, which he founded as a teaching
tool, economic empowerment zone and food production site for the southwest
Metropolitan Atlanta area.
Board
Member | Founder of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist
and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in
particular and humanity in general.
and co-host, Maria Whitaker, Program Director, Local to Global Advocates for Justice, and KC Food Justice, fssg.blogspot.com, foodhealthenvironmentaljustice.com.
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
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:
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.
Local2Global Advocates for Justice
KC Food Justice
3156 Wood View Ridge Drive
Suite 206
Kansas City, KS 66103
913 945 1333
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