Here's an idea which you can take or leave.
October 16th is World Food Day, a day coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This year's theme is the "Right to Food". I was thinking that it offers us a good pretext and media hook for raising awareness through the media about the right to food, hunger, food security, and the role of community gardens. So here's the idea: what if those of us who do some occasional writing for newspapers or the web agreed to publish something for our audiences that day on the right to food? Maybe all it will add up to is a handful of op-eds and blog posts, but that's how awareness-raising starts. In addition to the good this could achieve at home, such a group effort would also represent a statement of solidarity with people and groups outside the US working on these issues. I recall from the last World Food Summit in 2002 that the US was the only western nation (aside from Turkey, I believe) opposing the notion of the "right to food" as a basic human right. It'd be nice to show the world that this stance - while perhaps the "official position" of the US government - is not the official position of its people. I, for one, will commit myself to writing something. We've got a full six weeks to prepare and pitch articles. With the Farm Bill heading into the home-stretch, there may be creative ways of combining themes. Here are a couple of links for those interested in learning more: FAO's right to food website http://www.fao.org/righttofood/ Kennedy School paper on the right to food with some background info on US opposition http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/pdf/The%20Right%20to%20Food%20Report02.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070904/963c413a/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
