Meeting Announcement
The Community Food Security Coalition will be holding a public forum entitled
Community Food Security: Past, Present, and Future on Thursday, February 8,
1996 at the Philadelphia Marriott, Rm 307, from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. The
Marriott is located downtown, across the street from the Reading Terminal
Market at 1201 Market St.
The Community Food Security Coalition is a national network of 125
organizations involved in diverse activities ranging from sustainable
agriculture to food banking. Its mission is to promote comprehensive
community-based solutions to farming and hunger problems in rural and urban
areas. It has authored and organized the passage through Congress of the
Community Food Security Act of 1995. This bill would provide matching funding
for local community food and farming projects in low income communities.
Farmers' markets and public markets would be primary recipients of this
funding.
Scheduled for the Feb. 8th session are presentations on the concept, history
and politics of community food security; the implications and status of the
Community Food Security Act; regional organizing efforts to connect family
farmers, environmentalists, anti-hunger advocates, and community garden and
farmers market activists in New York City, Los Angeles, Rochester, Texas, and
California. Speakers will include Kate Fitzgerald, Sustainable Food Center,
Austin, TX; Kathy Lawrence, NYSAWG; Gail Feenstra, UC Sustainable Ag Research
and Education Program; Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition; Hugh
Joseph, Tufts University; Bob Gottlieb, UCLA Urban Planning Dept; Mark Winne,
Hartford Food System, and others. Plenty of time will be left for
discussion.
The meeting is free of charge. For more information or an agenda, please
contact Andy Fisher, 310-822-5410, asfisher@aol.com. Hope you can make it.