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+ East New York Farms! Begins New Season + The East New York Farms! project will open its seasonal market on Saturday, June 30th. East New York Farms! is an urban agriculture [...] internship program, two community gardens that use sustainable growing methods, and a Saturday market with local growers and vendors.

+ June 23rd & 24th: Tacoma Really Really Free Market and Food Not Bombs this weekend! + Tacoma Really Really Free Market and Food Not Bombs this weekend! Free stuff and free food in Tacoma! Sat 6/23 & [...] and if you want to get rid of stuff, bring it here! Come hang out and create community. Food Not Bombs is serving around 3pm.

+ Guerrilla Gardens + For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of countrysides far [...] in far away places whose main motivation is profit. When we start to reclaim some of this space we begin to take back our lives.

+ Toxic Soil Busters Day Celebrated June 20th + The youth-lead cooperative, “Toxic Soil Busters” – a program of the Worcester Roots Project – held a press conference to [...] June 20th and to welcome four new board members to the grassroots Worcester-based non-profit. Watch the video of the media event!

+ Desplazados Pero No Derrotados. South Central Farmers Displaced, but not Defeated. + LOS ANGELES 14 June 2007--Two hundred people came to the South Central Farm tonight to watch the corn grow. The familiar train [...] Continues by RP | | South Central Farm: Encampment Reunion 2007 | | Photos from South Central Farm re-union VIDEO:

+ Monsanto Buys Terminator Technology: U.S. approves take-over of seed company + On June 1, 2007 the United States Justice Department gave the green light for Monsanto's $1.5 billion takeover of the world's largest [...] seeds, thus forcing farmers to buy new seed every year" said Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.

+ Brooklyn Cultivates 21st Century Citizens + New York City’s asphalt will soon be sprouting leafy lettuce greens and feeding itself, according to Ian Marvy, co-founder of the [...] growing and selling over 40 crops while educating people about organic produce and the effect agriculture has on the environment.

+ South Central Farmers: Displaced, NOT Defeated + This month marks the one year anniversary of the brutal and violent eviction of the South Central Farmers. Every first Sunday of the [...] the farm will gather from 6pm to 8pm on the 13th outside of the farm at Alameda and 41st in vigil and reflection. Read more

+ FORT LAUDERDALE FOOD NOT BOMBS Potluck 4 pm Friday June 1st + Join us for a communal potluck in downtown Fort Lauderdale, in the gazebo outside out of the Main Library (Broward Blvd & Andrews ...

+ Organizing small plot intensive (SPIN) vegetable growing cooperatives + Bob Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, has a new food project for Oklahoma. Below is his announcement: SPIN Farming [...] and organically grown vegetables is way bigger than the actual production of locally and organically grown vegetables... Read more>>

+ Food Stamp Challenge 2007 + 420,000 Oklahomans rely on an average of $21 per person per week in food stamp benefits to meet their nutritional needs. Could [...] and faith-based organizations are issuing the Food Stamp Challenge to give Oklahomans a small taste of what it's like to be hungry.

+ Another Victory in CIW Campaign: YUM! Brands Expanding Agreement + YUM BRANDS EXTENDS THE TACO BELL AGREEMENT TO THE REST OF ITS FIVE MAJOR BRANDS!… KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, and [...] Florida's fields to six! See the AP story, in Business Week, here: "Yum Brands expanding farmworkers deal," 5/18/07

+ Workshop: How to organize a local food cooperative + The Oklahoma Food Cooperative will host a three day workshop on May 17, 18, 19, 2007 in Oklahoma City on how to organize and operate a ...

+ Working The Soil: A Look at DC's Community Gardens + Two years ago, my morning get-out-of-bed routine looked like this: A one-man jackhammer would cut through the earth and my sleep. In a [...] until the fall of 2002. [This article published first in DC North. Support Community Papers. http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com]

+ Down With the King: protests around the US + Students, unions, churches oppose human slavery in tomato fields, demand justice Champaign, IL - Burger King stores around the US [...] Florida tomato fields and demand that the Burger King corporation pay just one cent more per pound of tomatoes it buys. Read more>>

+ "CONCERT FOR FAIR FOOD" EXCLUSIVE + CIW "CONCERT FOR FAIR FOOD" ROCKS CHICAGO'S HOUSE OF BLUES… And shakes the House of Fast-Food! Here's what Tom Morello had [...] the Immokalee farmworkers victory." read more Watch y ahora que? here | Ver y ahora que? aca

+ Alert: FDA Attempting to Regulate Supplements, Herbs and Juices as "Drugs" + A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs [...] an association of grocery stores that has everything to gain by stifling our burgeoning farmer's market communities. read more >>

+ On Cusp of Chicago Convergence, Immokalee Workers Win Demands from McDonald's + The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has announced a major victory in its efforts to improve the lives of migrant farm workers who [...] across the entire fast food industry. Additional Coverage: Austin Indymedia | Gapers Block | Democracy Now!

+ Sembrando Esperanza [Sowing Hope] + La lucha por la tierra es antigua. Frente a la extrema concentración de poder y la comercialización de la vida, luchar por la [...] build consciousness, and mobilize people through campesino committees, from a rural communities base and at the national level.]

+ On verge of major protest, CIW reaches landmark accord with McDonald's + Campaign surges forward with Burger King in its sights! Come to Chicago – now more than ever! Today, April 9th, at The [...] for fair food to the next level. Chicago IMC Coverage | Coalition of Immokalee Workers | Student Farmworker Alliance