[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Food Justice Summit- Oct 22nd!!

[Shira Golding]

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> From: Trina Baxter <kirtrina at gmail.com>
> Date: September 23, 2011 7:53:17 PM EDT
> Subject: Food Justice Summit- Oct 22nd!!
>
> Hello fellow community workers,
>
> It has been wonderful working with you all over the years! My life  
> has been truly enriched by the associations and people that have  
> colored it during my time here. Most of you know me through my work  
> at Southside Community Center but I have another interest that is  
> very dear to my heart...Food Justice.
>
> In my role as program director for Greenstar Community  
> Projects(GSCP), I have been able to help serve this necessary cause  
> by supporting progams that enlighten our community, on every level,  
> about healthy food choices and local agriculture. An important part  
> of this movement is also providing access and information to ALL of  
> our citizens about how our current food system has not served  
> marginalized communities well. The ill effects of poor food choices  
> and accessibility issues on our health, fitness, youth, and elders  
> has been detrimental to our community as a whole. And although  
> Ithaca has a robust local foods movement, it has not generally  
> reached those communities who are most affected by poor food choices  
> and lack of access. The food justice movement seeks to address these  
> disparities by providing solutions to this problem.
>
> On October 22nd GSCP is having Ithaca's 1st Annual Food Justice  
> Summit!  The summit consists of a walkathon to raise necessary funds  
> for food justice efforts in our community and a block party, to  
> provide the community with information about food justice and how we  
> can work together as a community to correct the injustice prevalent  
> in our current food system. I would love it if you and your  
> associations could form a team to walk in our walkathon to support  
> the food justice efforts in our area! I promise it will be lots of  
> fun...and the exercise will do us all good. If you are not  
> interested in walking, there are lots of other ways you, your  
> participants, and others can get involved. Check out the website at www.greenstarcommunityprojects.org
> click on the Food Justice Summit link for more information.  
> Sponsorship, donations, tabling at the event or volunteering is  
> encouraged!!
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read this and respond.
>
>
> Please keep up the great work you are doing in our community,
>
> Kirtrina Baxter
>
> -- 
> "The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it  
> was before you came in." -- James Baldwin

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