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Real Pickles: Why Our Food System Needs the Occupy Movement
Real Pickles sent us a link to their blog, it’s worth a read: A key challenge in trying to change the food system is that our political-economic system offers enormous advantages to the purveyors of industrial food. The result is … Continue reading
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Tagged 99%, industrial food, occupy wall street, OWS, Real Pickles
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Food and Justice make a great pairing at La Plaza Cultural
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden was alive and buzzing as urban growers, rural farmers, food activists, and occupiers bonded on Sunday Dec 4, 2011 for Occupy Food. Activities included singing, screen printing sessions, several energizing speakers (video excerpts above), a … Continue reading
How the 99% cope
We are hearing more and more about the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s rapid expansion across the US, and what they are calling the 99%. With this backdrop, an inspirational blog post from Food Bank NYC seems worth a re-post … Continue reading
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Tagged 99%, EBT, food bank nyc, food stamps, occupy wall street, SNAP benefits
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The 4th Street Food Co-op 