Hi!

You're invited to come help plan the Western MA Real Food Summit! The
planning will begin on...

Saturday, May 3
1:00-3:00pm
Hampshire College
room 106 in FPH (Franklin Patterson Hall)


** SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECOLOGICAL SENSIBILITY, and ECONOMIC PROSPERITY **

"Real food" is food which truly nourishes producers, consumers, the
earth, and communities. College students in this area have been meeting
for the past six months as part of the Real Food Challenge, which is a
USA-nation-wide initiative to bring real food into colleges -- into the
dining halls, the curriculum, the community, and the land itself. The
Western MA Real Food Summit will be an event to gather with people and
organizations from all over Western MA to collaboratively and
strategically build a food justice movement in our area. It's going to
be full of empowerment, partnership, and action!

The Real Food Challenge will be launching in or around October 2008 on
over 300 campuses across the US. Our focus is institutional and systemic
change, and we approach food justice from local to global perspectives,
and in between. We are committed to examining and challenging the legacies of
racism and classism in the food system and our work. We aim to clearly address
the ways that food justice is
an "intersectional" issue, including issues of race, class, gender,
ability, citizenship/immigration, language, culture, war/peace,
indigenous rights, the prison-industrial complex, and more.

There's more about the Real Food Challenge and resources to make it
happen at:
http://www.realfoodchallenge.org


** SPREAD THIS INVITATION **

Please forward this invitation to any people or groups you know that are
working on food justice and related issues. If you're not sure who that
is, check here for an idea of the interconnections:
http://realfoodchallenge.org/files/Real_Food_Map.pdf

Please spread the word!

peace, justice, and spring time!
Patrick Gibbs

Real Food WMA