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农民加入到占领华尔街运动之中,抗议食品公司对食品的控制

作者:沙丘   来源:红色文化网  

农民加入到占领华尔街运动之中,呼吁食品公正

(据占领华尔街官网消息)  

随着华尔街的腐败对经济的影响的增加,为美国人民提供食品的系统中企业的企业所有制已经伤害到了美国社会中最脆弱的群体的健康和生存。  

本周末,12月4日,食品正义活动者和占领者们将从遥远的科罗拉多、艾奥瓦、缅因和北纽约州来到这里参加占领华尔街农民游行。通过一天的对话、音乐表演和游行,农民们和他们的城市中的为食品正义而工作的联盟者们将在一起组成联合体,一同揭露企业对于食品供给的控制,并一同斗争。  

全天的活动都将呼吁和鼓舞参与者们反对企业对农业系统的控制。这一行业系统要为以下损害负责:因使用化学毒素而造成的增高的肥胖率,心脏疾病与糖尿病,以及国家中最贫穷的公民无法获得可以承受的有益健康的食物。  

此次活动将在下午两点开始,地点位于丽柏广场文化社区花园。首先将上演一段音乐表演。之后是食品公正活动者与占领着的评论。他们将分享自己的故事,并倾听伙伴的意见。他们非常看重城乡团结在建设一个可持续的食品系统中的角色,以及在企业统治的文化中,家庭大小的农场面对的挑战。  

在下午4点的时候,在音乐家的引领下,由农民行进队伍组成的丰富多彩的游行队伍将从丽柏广场出发,向下午5点开始的团结圈所在地祖科蒂广场行进。在团结圈中,我们将分享关于斗争、胜利以及关于占领华尔街运动可以在食品公正运动中所扮演的角色的沉思。在团结圈结束的时候,我们将交换植物的种子作为最后一项内容。  

鼓励与会者们创造性地表达自己的异议,穿上水果帽子,身穿麻布麻袋,背着色彩鲜艳的标志,踩着鼓点节拍前进。  

请加入我们的行列,农民,农场主,农场工人,城市园丁,美食家和各种支持者占据华尔街农游行的人们。  

主讲者包括:  

乔治·纳伊尔 - 爱荷华州农民和全国家庭农场联盟主席。  

卡伦·华盛顿 - 城市农场的创始人和纽约公平食品基础组织的董事会成员。  

吉姆·格瑞特森 - 缅因州的农民,Utne读者杂志评选他为2011年的20个世界梦想家之一,是对孟山都的集体诉讼的首席原告。  

斯沃瑞安·冯·特斯卡热内 -剖析年轻的农民企业家的电影“绿色号角”的制片人,食品的倡导者和生产者。  

吉姆·古德曼 –威斯康星农民,组织拖拉机赴麦迪逊发言反对州长沃克的工会立法的组织者。  

塔拉巴尼·萨布尔 - 自由食品联盟的创始成员,主张并致力于黑人的农村农民黑人城市社区的联盟。  

迈克·克里克瑞特 - 科罗拉多州牛牧场主,企业家和农村倡导者。  

安德鲁·福斯特 - 世界著名的永续农业专家和教育家。

 

Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice

Posted 11 hours ago on Dec. 2, 2011, 6:21 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

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As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities. This Sunday, December 4th food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corporate control of the food supply.

Events throughout the day will call and inspire participants to fight against the corporate manipulation of the agriculture system. An industry that is responsible for using chemical toxins tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens.

The event will kick off at 2pm at La Plaza Cultural Community Gardenwith a musical performance followed by remarks from food justice activists and occupiers. They will share their stories and listen to their peers as they highlight the role of urban-rural solidarity in building a sustainable food system as well as challenges of family-scale farmers in a culture of corporate dominance.

At 4pm, musicians will be among those leading the Farmers’ March in a colorful parade from La Plaza to Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza, the site of a Solidarity Circle at 5pm. Stories of struggle, triumph and ruminations about the role OWS might assume in the food justice movement will help form the circle. The circle will close with a Seed Exchange.

Participants are encouraged to express their dissent creatively, donning fruits hats, wearing burlap sacks, carrying brightly colored signs and moving in time to the beat of the drums.

Please join us, farmers, ranchers, farm workers, urban gardeners, foodies and supporters of all kinds in the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.

Speakers will include:

George Na ylor - Iowa farmer and president of the National Family Farm Coalition. Karen Washington - Founder of City Farms Market and board member at NYC based organization Just Food. Jim Gerritsen - Maine based farmer who was named one of 20 world visionaries by Utne Reader in 2011 and is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Monsanto.

Severine von Tscharner - Food advocate and producer of the film “Green Horns”, profiling young farmer entrepreneurs. Jim Goodman - Wisconson Farmer, organizer of the tractorcade to Madison to speak out against Governer Walker’s union legislation. Jalal Sabur - Founding member of the Freedom Food Alliance and advocate working on the alliance of black urban communities with black rural farmers. Mike Callicrate - Colorado cattle rancher, entrepreneur and rural advocate . Andrew Faust - World renowned permaculture expert and educator.

 

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