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Join us TONIGHT at the Oakes Learning Center to discuss Food, Food Sovereignty, and Waste for the Blueprint For A Sustainable Campus. We want to hear from you about what you want to see on this campus!
When: TONIGHT 1/30/19
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
Where: Oakes Learning Center Why: BECAUSE WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!
Secret that USDA does feed people
UMass Stockbridge instructor, Catherine Sands, will be offering a new ONLINE class this summer, Food Justice and Policy. For more information, see:
https://sustfoodfarm.org/online-classes/food-justice/
This course examines the role of policy in determining WHAT we eat, WHO experiences barriers to access to safe, healthy, local, fairly produced foods, and HOW we create equity and sustainability in our local food system. We will start by looking at the basic components of our food system: production, distribution, and consumption. We will then examine systemic structures of race, class, citizenship and ability as they relate to access to healthy local food. The course-work concludes with an in-depth look at food sovereignty, the right of communities to choose how their food is produced and what they consume, the impact of agribusiness and the concentration of resources into the hands of a few corporations, and the dramatic effect U.S. food policies have on the rest of the world. Students will have the opportunity to do research and analysis about successful food justice initiatives and the Farm Bill.
NOTE: Although STOCKSCH 265 (Sustainable Agriculture) is listed as a requirement, this is not the case for the online class. Please contact the instructor to override this pre-requisite and register!
Instructor: Catherine H. Sands MPPA
Email:
[email protected]
Washington State-
𝘼 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 (𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚):
We are residents and organic farmers who live in an area near Davenport, Washington called Mill Canyon. We feel threatened by proposals to spread municipal sewage sludge on nearly 900 acres of nearby agricultural land uphill from where we live, garden and farm. The area in question includes our natural watershed. We are alarmed because the Washington State Department of Ecology will likely approve the permit within days, despite our objections.
We are organizing to prevent the permit application to dump the sludge from being approved and we are preparing to mount an expensive appeal if the permit is approved. Not only that, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲. There needs to be a thorough review of all the known pollutant contaminants in sewage sludge. There are problems with how Ecology administers its sewage sludge program. Sewage sludge should be classified as toxic waste so that disposing of it on agricultural land would be illegal.
𝗪𝗲'𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺. It will automatically send email messages to the Governor and the Ecology Department Director. Go here to sign:
http://tinyurl.com/no-sludge-on-ag
We need your help to increase the number of folks signing the petition. Here are ways you can help:
𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!
Share this post.;
Have your local natural foods store or co-op send information about the moratorium demand to their customers;
Print the posters below and put them up on community bulletin boards;
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper;
Call your state legislator and let them know you support the moratorium and the folks in Mill Canyon who want the permit denied.
You can also email the officials directly:
"Governor Inslee" , "Ecology Director Bellon"
Half-sheet, smaller poster (two per letter-sized sheet, landscape orientation):http://www.protectmillcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/poster1.pdf
Letter sized poster (portrait orientation):http://www.protectmillcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/poster1-lg.pdf
Hope to see some of you at CODEPINK's Peace Camp Retreat this August in Sonoma County! Contact us if members of your group would like to attend or lead a workshop! Visit
http://www.codepink.org/peacecamp2017 to register or get more info.