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Run Against Hunger
Be Not Afraid
An Extraordinary
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Making a Difference
Bonnie Raitt
Honored With
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Readers Help
Those Affected by
Hurricane Katrina
Chapin Family
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30th Anniversary
Goat Tales
Doing Something
Letter to the Editor
WHY Hosts Free
Anti-Hunger Forum
October 18th
Country Store
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WHY Hosts Free Anti-Hunger Forum October 18th
WHY (World Hunger Year) and the New School University in New York City present their annual anti-poverty forum featuring prominent journalists and exemplary grassroots organizations. This year's forum — "Food Justice: Change Your Diet, Change the World" — will be held Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 1-5:30 pm, at the New School University's Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (55 West 13th Street) in New York City. The event is free and open to the public.
The event will begin at 1 pm with a roundtable discussion examining the media’s role in accurately portraying the state of poverty and how that is achieved. The panel will be moderated by WHY’s International Director Peter Mann and the confirmed speakers are Renee C. Byer, photo editor for the Sacramento Bee; Jason DeParle, author of American Dream and a senior writer for The New York Times; and Tracie McMillan, managing editor of City Limits magazine.
The second panel discussion, beginning at 2:45 pm, will explore current food system problems, including exploitation of farm workers, loss of family farms, the growing obesity epidemic, and the institutionalized emergency feeding system. Moderated by Anna Lappé, co-author of Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet and founding principal of the Small Planet Institute, panelists include Kate Granger of the New Farmer Development Project in New York City; Tom Spaulding of the CSA Learning Center in Caledonia, IL; and Tony Bruno of the Amado Community Food Bank, Amado, AZ.
The final panel will begin at 4:15 pm and examine the role of grassroots movements in challenging injustices through organizing and fighting for change. Panelists include McMillan; Brahm Ahmadi of People’s Grocery in Oakland, CA; and a representative of Student Action with Farmworkers in Durham, NC.
Additional panelists will be added as they are confirmed. Please note: all speakers are subject to cancellation.
To register for this event, please click here.
Watch for the Next Issue of Circle! on December 7