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Laura MacIntyre (ROC United), Laura Nadal (Community Organizer), Hannah Whitbeck (Starbucks Workers United), Celize Christy (HEAL Alliance) | “There’s Power in a Union: Organizing Workers in the Food System”

January 30th, 2024 In this Food Literacy for All session, Laura MacIntyre, Laura Nadal, Hannah Whitbeck, and Celize Christy, discussed “There’s Power in a Union: Organizing Workers in the Food System.” Register to attend future Food Literacy 2024 sessions here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_diO8D1vIQVezN_hKY3FBhw#/registration

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Pakou Hang | “Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

January 28, 2020 Pakou Hang is a Co-Founder and the former Executive Director of the Hmong American Farmers Association, a nonprofit in Minnesota that works with Hmong farmers to build intergenerational and community wealth. In this lecture, Hang spoke about the policies and practices that can feed a robust ecosystem and support the resilience of

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Mónica Ramírez | “Seeding Justice: Ensuring Just Conditions for Those Who Feed the World”

January 22, 2019 Famworkers pick, pack and plant the food that we eat, but they often do not have enough food for themselves and their families. Mónica Ramírez, a prominent migrant rights advocate with more than two decades of experience, advocating on behalf of farmworkers across the United States, will share information about the working

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Josh Slotnick | “Cheap Food Nation and the Countervailing Force of Community Agriculture”

January 23, 2018 This presentation will combine an interactive dive into our food system with a discussion of Community Agriculture. Our interaction will distill out the values inherent in our food system, then I will describe Community Agriculture as the source of a different set of values. The work of Community Agriculture, not the food

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Ricardo Salvador | “A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen”

A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen. The U.S. food system has become the model replicated globally. Unfortunately, the system selectively serves those wealthy enough to command its benefits, while perversely creating hunger, chronic disease, environmental damage and suffering for others. Inherently, such a

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