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DIG IN! Creative Campaigning for Food Justice

DIG IN! Creative Campaigning for Food Justice. Kate and Genevieve May 2010 CUC AGM, Victoria (BC). A great 6 min. short animated film that can be used to help people to start thinking about what’s is wrong with our broken food system and what we can do to rebuild a healthier one.

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DIG IN! Creative Campaigning for Food Justice

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  1. DIG IN!Creative Campaigning for Food Justice Kate and Genevieve May 2010 CUC AGM, Victoria (BC)

  2. A great 6 min. short animated film that can be used to help people to start thinking about what’s is wrong with our broken food system and what we can do to rebuild a healthier one. http://usc-canada.org/storyoffood/

  3. About USC Canada... • Founded in 1945, as the Unitarian Service Committee, today, USC’s goal is... • To promote sustainable livelihoods through agro-biodiversity = Food, Farmers and a better Future

  4. Food Bite • 1 in 6 people go to bed hungry every night... the majority of them are rural children • 1.4 billion people depend on the SEEDS that FARMERS SAVE

  5. What we do abroad • Seeds of Survival: • Started in 1989 in Ethiopia after a major drought. • Goal: To save local varieties adapted to the local climate. • Community Seed Banks, in situ conservation, etc.

  6. What USC does in Canada • Advocacy: • Public Engagement events and speakers. • Workshops on Food Security, Youth Rights and Civil Society Advocacy. • Support to Volunteer initiatives.

  7. What’s the alternative? Food Sovereignty the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. Nyéleni, Mali 2007, La Via Campesina

  8. Some Campaign Actions • Postcard campaign • Write to MP’s, Ministers, and PM • Rallies and speakers • Hearings in the House and Senate • Leading to introduction of legislation • New social media

  9. Canadian Food Justice Campaigns

  10. Let’s Get Creative!

  11. Seed Saviour

  12. Seed Saviour

  13. Guerilla Gardening

  14. Guerilla Eating

  15. Eating for Change

  16. Eating for Change

  17. Food Art

  18. Spreading the Word

  19. Spreading the Word

  20. What else do or can we do?

  21. One Seed at a time: the Hummingbird Story! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHtFM1XEXas

  22. Garden Song – Peter, Paul & Mary CHORUS Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow All it takes is a rake and a hoe and A piece of fertile ground Inch by inch, row by row Someone bless these seeds I sow Someone warm them from below Please keep them safe below 'Till the rain comes tumbling down

  23. USC staff received this musical greeting from Kalahan, Timor Leste. The song is performed by young farmers in honour of USC. They wrote the lyrics themselves: "Manilma, Manilima. Before the land was empty, but now it is full of green. And so we thank you.“ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9qc3v_wN94

  24. THANK YOU

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