---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Tamborello <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM Subject: food justice news august 27 To: [email protected]
*To All Those Interested in Food and Justice... * * * A (usually) weekly update on food issues, promoting access to sufficient, affordable, healthy food ---with a focus on campaigns you can become active in! **** *Follow us *on Twitter @HungerActionLA . Welcome to all the new people on the list: please respond to [email protected] if you wish to use a different e mail or be removed**** ** ** *Monday Aug 27, 2012:* * * *1. Hunger Action LA News * ***2. Speakers Training on Prop 30 August 29 * *3. Community Services Unlimited Grand Opening September 8 * * 4. Heifer International Dinner Sept 21 5. Proposed Legislation Prevents Discrimination Involving Breastfeeding ** * *6. One in Five Americans Struggling To Afford Food * *7. Half of Food in America is Thrown Away: And How That Connects to Water * *8. Environmental Working Group : Cooking Healthy On a Budget* * * * * ** ****** Hunger Action LA News**** ****** ***** 1. Hunger Action LA News*** ** ** Check out the *Hunger Action LA website* www.hungeractionla.org for more information:**** ** ** *The Peoples Guide to Welfare, Health and Other Services* is available for order onlilne. Published since the late 1970s, the Peoples Guide has become the standard guidebook of public social services for people working in the field, people in need of help, and those just helping their neighbors. This 68 page booklet includes vital information on: financial assistance for individuals and families, unemployment benefits, job training, help for people in re-entry, Dept. of Rehabilitation, child care, foster care, tax rebates, Social Security and SSI, CalFresh, child nutrition and WIC, help with car insurance and smog check costs, low cost phone service, utility bill assistance, housing (including assistance for transitional foster youth), and phone numbers for legal assistance. See www.hungeractionla.orgfor pdf and send orders for printed copies to: [email protected] **** ** ** *The Market Match Program* is helping boost buying power for seniors and low income families at farmers markets across LA County including Adams/Vermont, East Hollywood, East LA, Gardena, Huntington Park, Long Beach, Mar Vista, and Valinda. On September 7 well be adding the Monterey Park Farmers Market to that list, located at 318 S. Ramona Ave, Monterey Park library parking lot and open on Fridays from 4 pm to 8 pm. **** ** ** *HALA Awards and Dinner are Thursday November 15*, 7 pm-10 pm at Kavar, 4777 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029. We will be honoring Champions Against Hunger and Poverty. You can go to the link below for information and how to nominate someone to be honored as a Champion! Early bird tickets available soon at**** www.hungeractionla.org/dinnerandawards **** ** ** **[image: Text Box: Events]**** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *2. Speakers Training on Prop 30 August 29* Prop 30 would raise essential revenue to keep the state from making further funding cuts to education. There is a speakers training offered this Wednesday, August 29th from 10am-2pm on Prop. 30, with limited space available. If you are interested in getting the training please RSVP below. **** ** ** http://new.evite.com/?utm_source=other_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=invite#view_invite:eid=0105AAQZXGL24EDD4EPB4UVI7FJ6LY&gid=0105MDVWTUTCHIKMCEPB4UVJLQTY7I **** ** ** When RSVPing please change the name/profile to yours. The training is being provided by the grassroots campaign on Yes on Prop. 30, Reclaim Californias Future**** ** ** ** ** *3. Community Services Unlimited Grand Opening September 8:* ** ** Save the date for Saturday September 8th Launch of New Community Services Unlimited CSU Space 11.30am to 3.30pm **** New office address: 3655 South Grand Avenue, Unit HP, Los Angeles, CA 90007* *** New office tel number: 213 746 1238.**** Community Services Unlimited Serving the People Body and Soul is operating several community garden and urban agriculture programs helping low income people, and after many years theyve moved to a new location. Come and help celebrate the launch of our new space at the Mercado La Paloma **** ** ** Cooking Demos**** Tastings**** Presentations**** Live music**** Spoken word**** ** ** *4. Heifer International Dinner Sept 21* ** ** Heifer International will host "Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table," on September 21, 2012 at the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Heifer International works with smallholder farmers in more than 40 countries, providing gifts of livestock and training to empower self-reliance and ensure nutritional and economic security.**** ** ** http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heifer-international-hosts-beyond-hunger-a-place-at-the-table-to-battle-world-hunger-and-poverty-2012-08-14 **** **[image: Text Box: legislation]**** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * * *5. Proposed Legislation Prevents Discrimination Involving Breastfeeding* ** ** State and federal law changes have been proposed to keep employers from punishing women for breastfeeding their children**** ** ** AB 2386 (Allen) would make it unlawful to engage in specified discriminatory practices in employment or housing accommodations on the basis of breastfeeding or medical conditions related to breastfeeding. For more information on the bill, please contact Genevieve Thomas Colvin of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.**** http://workfamilyca.org/blog/?p=426 **** The Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011 in Congress would extend civil rights protections to breastfeeding moms, to keep them from being fired for taking time to breastfeed:**** http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/LegislationPolicy/BreastfeedingAdvocacyHQ/BreastfeedingPromotionAct/tabid/115/Default.aspx **** ** ** Mayor Villaraigosa highlighted his support of breastfeeding mothers and their right to breastfeed in public, a law he introduced and help pass in 1997.With the support of the City of Los Angeles' Commission on the Status of Women and the Office of the Mayor, the City of Los Angeles dedicated a mother's lounge at City Hall on August 14th. **** ** ** ** ** **[image: Text Box: More news and actions]**** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *6. One in Five Americans Struggling To Afford Food* ** ** ** ** The Food Research and Action Center just announced that the Gallup polling shows that nearly one in five American households reported inability to afford enough food between January and June of 2012. Here's the link to the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index just issued yesterday with a table showing results for all states: http://www.gallup.com/poll/156806/one-four-mississippi-residents-struggle-afford-food.aspx#1 **** ** ** Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/afford-food-americans_n_1818280.html **** This news is especially sobering, considering that the USDA is estimating increases in food prices during the coming year as a result of the drought. **** ** ** Anti-hunger members of the House of Representatives have introduced Sense of the Congress 760 which opposes SNAP cuts proposed in the House Farm Bill. California Representative George Miller was one of those originally introducing the bill which is now con-sponsored by California Representatives Baca, Miller, Lee, Waters, Waxman and Holmes Norton. Please call your Representative and ask them to co-sponsor as well.**** Text of the bill : http://www.frac.org/pdf/HR_760_McGovern.pdf **** List of co-sponsors: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5118/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=10375 **** ** ** *7. Half of Food in America is Thrown Away: And How That Connects to Water* ** ** So with one in five American families struggling to afford food ..we find that Americans throw away nearly half their food every year, waste worth roughly $165 billion annually, according to a study released on Tuesday.**** ** ** http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-food-waste-idUSBRE87K0WR20120821 **** ** ** *Water Institute Calls for Reduction in Food Waste:* World Water Week commenced this morning with a global call to action. This year's annual summit led by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) opened with a global appeal to reduce food waste as a means to preserve water.**** ** ** http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/world-water-week-food-waste_n_1833107.html **** ** ** *Farmer Led Irrigation Schemes Could Change Food Security In Africa:* As food prices escalate globally due to the failed monsoon season in Asia and the "super drought" in the US, a new study finds that smallscale irrigation schemes can protect millions of farmers from food insecurity and climate risks in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR consortium research center, released the paper ahead of Stockholm World Water Week.**** ** ** http://allafrica.com/stories/201208241130.html**** ** ** ** ** *8. Environmental Working Group : Cooking Healthy On a Budget* The Environmental Working Group's guide to Good Food on a Tight Budget will help you fill your plate with delicious, healthy foodand save time and money. They produced it in conjunction with Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger organization. This group has worked many years to disseminate info on how to buy food thats nutritious and pesticide-free. Check out the book here:**** http://www.ewg.org/goodfood/index.php **** ** ** ** ** ************************************* ** ** Frank Tamborello**** Hunger Action Los Angeles**** 961 S. 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