Hundreds of youth (and a few of us from WhyHunger!) gathered at the end of July in South Los Angeles for the 15th annual Rooted in Community (RIC) Youth Leadership Summit, themed this year “Reclaiming Our Land, Reclaiming Our Roots.” While there is a ton to share, we’d like to start with a rap from Dante Kaleo, from the food
07-08-2013
All farmworker family photos by Star Angelina Murray. This post originally appeared on Care2. Over 200 immigrant farmworkers have been on strike for almost a month at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington State, one of the nation's largest berry farms. The strike was initiated in protest of what was believed to be an unjust firing of a worker; the workers
07-08-2013
Harvesting Justice is a project of Other Worlds, created for the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and telling the stories of people changing their food systems from the ground up. Its latest blog post, reprinted with permission, focuses on the transformative work of WhyHunger partner People's Grocery in Oakland, California. By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, with Deepa Panchang The neighborhood
29-07-2013
Nearly one in three Latinos goes hungry, although many of us simply aren’t aware of this crisis. If we want to end hunger, we need to get our community actively engaged...Hunger is a problem that can be solved. - Alfredo Estrada, LATINO Magazine Latinos in the US are disproportionately affected by poverty, hunger, unemployment and diet-related illness. They are more
26-07-2013
Hundreds of youth (and a few of us from WhyHunger!) gathered at the end of July in South Los Angeles for the 15th annual Rooted in Community (RIC) Youth Leadership Summit, themed this year “Reclaiming Our Land, Reclaiming Our Roots.” While there is a ton to share, we’d like to start with a rap from Dante Kaleo, from the food
07-08-2013
All farmworker family photos by Star Angelina Murray. This post originally appeared on Care2. Over 200 immigrant farmworkers have been on strike for almost a month at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington State, one of the nation's largest berry farms. The strike was initiated in protest of what was believed to be an unjust firing of a worker; the workers
07-08-2013
Harvesting Justice is a project of Other Worlds, created for the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and telling the stories of people changing their food systems from the ground up. Its latest blog post, reprinted with permission, focuses on the transformative work of WhyHunger partner People's Grocery in Oakland, California. By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, with Deepa Panchang The neighborhood
29-07-2013
Nearly one in three Latinos goes hungry, although many of us simply aren’t aware of this crisis. If we want to end hunger, we need to get our community actively engaged...Hunger is a problem that can be solved. - Alfredo Estrada, LATINO Magazine Latinos in the US are disproportionately affected by poverty, hunger, unemployment and diet-related illness. They are more
26-07-2013