Yesterday the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and publisher of Colorlines.com, released “Good Food and Good Jobs for All: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Racial and Economic Equity in the Food System.” Part of a series on food justice and race, the report makes recommendations on how the labor movement and the food justice movement— which journalist
11-07-2012
Want to know what it looks like to "transform" your block through art, food justice activism, community organizing, and a whole lot of love? From our amazing partners Tierra y Libertad Organization in Tucson, AZ, comes this digital story made for Literacy Forsyth Digital Storytelling Camp about Sarah Fox's experience painting a mural with a group of friends during her
06-07-2012
The National Hunger Hotline, a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the Hotline is a portal to information, assistance and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food. In
02-07-2012
Continuing our reports from the UN Rio +20 sustainable development summit last week… Dr. Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, speaks on agroecology, hunger, global action, and social movements at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Altieri is a leading scholar of ecological agriculture or "agroecology," conducting
02-07-2012
Yesterday the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and publisher of Colorlines.com, released “Good Food and Good Jobs for All: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Racial and Economic Equity in the Food System.” Part of a series on food justice and race, the report makes recommendations on how the labor movement and the food justice movement— which journalist
11-07-2012
Want to know what it looks like to "transform" your block through art, food justice activism, community organizing, and a whole lot of love? From our amazing partners Tierra y Libertad Organization in Tucson, AZ, comes this digital story made for Literacy Forsyth Digital Storytelling Camp about Sarah Fox's experience painting a mural with a group of friends during her
06-07-2012
The National Hunger Hotline, a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the Hotline is a portal to information, assistance and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food. In
02-07-2012
Continuing our reports from the UN Rio +20 sustainable development summit last week… Dr. Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, speaks on agroecology, hunger, global action, and social movements at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Altieri is a leading scholar of ecological agriculture or "agroecology," conducting
02-07-2012