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Cooking up a storm, after the storm
Report provided by Lisa Fencik. The electricity outages and flooding associated with superstorm Sandy sent many people in lower Manhattan to the streets, including the residents of C-Squat, a legendary homesteading squat located on Ave C between 9th and 10th … Continue reading
Dr. Vandana Shiva to speak at Zuccotti/Liberty Square this Thursday
The renowned physicist and environmental activist, Dr. Vandana Shiva, will give a talk on the necessity of taking back our food system and the possibilities for occupying global agriculture. Takes place this Thursday March 22, 2012 at 12:00 noon at … Continue reading
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Tagged Liberty Square, occupy wall street, OWS, vandana shiva, Zuccotti Park
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4th Street Food Co-op Team Resumes OWS Meal Prep in 2012
After a holiday break, several co-op members gathered again Friday to prepare and serve a meal for Occupy Wall Street. On the menu this time, rice mixed with black soy beans, kelp, collards, daikon and black radishes, plus garlic, tamari, … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Street Food Co-op, Liberty Square, occupy wall street, OWS, St. Mark's Church
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2011 Year in Review
Next to the big news of our renovations, almost everything else pales. But some notable items from the year anyway: March: Co-op meetings moved to an alternating Sunday/Thursday schedule. Three cheers for predictability and participation! March: Zoya B and I … Continue reading
Feeding the Occupy the Earth Rally
Friday co-op members Lisa, Lauren, Nick, and I got together and prepared a meal for the Occupy Earth Summit Rally. We made brown rice with cabbage, potato, crunchy raw carrots, and light curry and citrus … Continue reading
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
4th Street Food Co-op creates 2 beautiful millet dishes for OWS
Occupy Wall Street asked us last week to prepare two lunch meals to be served over the weekend for a conference with the Medical Working Group. There were 35 participants both Saturday and Sunday, so we made a variation on … Continue reading
Food Justice Gathering at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
From La Plaza Cultural De Armando Perez Community Garden on Avenue C and 9th Street: Sun. Dec. 4, 1-4pm – Occupy Wall Street Food Justice – A gather approximately 200 people, including farmers, community gardeners, food workers, food justice activists, and folks … Continue reading
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Tagged community garden, food justice, la plaza cultural, occupy wall street, urban farming
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Lunch at Zuccotti
Twice in November a few of us from the co-op got together and prepped a meal for Occupy Wall Street (see here and here). During our first outing, we were accompanied by the film team of Winnie and Paul. Here’s … Continue reading
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