[SustainableTompkins] Healthy Food For All- ST Monthly Gathering- Thu 2/8 GIAC - 6-8

[Elan Shapiro]

  HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL- Sustainable Tompkins Monthly Gathering

THIS Thursday February 8th GIAC -  Fort Room 6:00- 8:00 PM

  CHILD CARE PROVIDED   Free Local Soul Food Meal

Sustainable Tompkins, along with GIAC, People's Garden Project, Just 
Sustainability Initiative, Race Liberation Alliance, GreenStar Co-op, 
and Cornell Cooperative Extension, invites you to a Food Justice 
gathering on Thursday, February 8 from 6:00 to 8:00 at Greater Ithaca 
Activities Center at 318 N. Albany Street (at Court St).
We'll begin with a free Soul Food dinner made by catering businesses 
owned by people of color, and a community networking circle. 
Speakers, including Pastor Ronald Benson (1st Baptized Church), 
Jhakeem Haltom (Race Liberation Alliance, Thousands of One), and Liz 
Karabinakis (Greenstar) will then present innovative programs, many 
of them new, that increase access to affordable, healthy, fresh foods 
in our downtown neighborhoods. These programs:
	Enhance the nutritional value of snacks and meals served in 
our public schools
	Subsidize the cost of fresh produce from local farms with 
convenient pick-up locations
	Make free dinners available to young people at GIAC
	Start gardens next to food pantry locations, like the first 
Baptized Church
	Teach gardening and "permaculture" skills, aimed for an urban setting
               Connect the dots between race, class, and access to 
healthy & green life choices

The presentations will be followed by a community discussion about 
the projects and the issues raised

More information?  Contact Elan Shapiro, Just Sustainability 
Initiative,  275-0249
elansla at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us




-- 
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Tompkins Program Co-Chair
Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249

"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
	          Mohandas Gandhi