Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/27/2012
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
AT&T
Category(ies)
Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together the Occupy, sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements for a global day of action on February 27, 2012. Inspired by the theme of CREATE/RESIST, thousands will come together to creatively confront corporate control of our food supply and take action to build healthy, accessible food systems for all.
Industrial agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Monsanto, ADM and Dupont have gained runaway control of our food systems and to take them back, we’ll need all the collective power we can manifest around the world. There are few things more personal than the food we put into our bodies every day. Let’s ensure that we can stand by the food we eat from farm to fork.
Occupy Atlanta will join thousands of others around the country for a Day of Action on February 27,
Whereas- corporate control of our food systems has increasingly harmed people, our
ecosystems and our climate
Whereas- many people in many places are reclaiming our food supply by creating localized
food systems that practice fair and ecological principles
Whereas- united, our food movements can reach a scale required to challenge the
corporate food regime that has prioritized profit over health and sustainability
Whereas- to create healthy local food systems globally we must both create the
alternatives we are calling for and resist the corporate and political forces creating
toxic, GMO, unhealthy
Whereas- local organic food systems & agroecology hold more hope for meeting our
world’s food needs than corporate food regimes profiting from speculation and land grabs
for exports
Whereas- we stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and communities around the
world that are struggling against hunger, exploitation, and unfair labor practices that
benefit only the 1%
Whereas- we all have to eat, and we don’t want to eat corporate crud
Please join us at the AT&T occupation located at 675 West Peachtree St at 11 AM. From there we will march to Whole Foods on Ponce De Leon Ave to demand the right to know if our food contains GMOs.
More Information on why we we’re targeting Whole Foods:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_24845.cfm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvU2yH4IpBo
Read more: #ixzz1nK4R3eBN">Occupy Our Food Supply | Rainforest Action Network #ixzz1nK4R3eBN">http://ran.org/occupy-our-food-supply #ixzz1nK4R3eBN
