<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Trina Baxter <<a href="mailto:kirtrina@gmail.com">kirtrina@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 23, 2011 7:53:17 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Food Justice Summit- Oct 22nd!!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Hello fellow community workers,</div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>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 <a href="http://www.greenstarcommunityprojects.org/">www.greenstarcommunityprojects.org</a></div> <div>click on the Food Justice Summit link for more information. Sponsorship, donations, tabling at the event or volunteering is encouraged!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Thank you for taking the time to read this and respond.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Please keep up the great work you are doing in our community,</div> <div> </div> <div>Kirtrina Baxter<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was before you came in." -- James Baldwin<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>