---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Tamborello <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:39 PM Subject: Fri Nov 30 HALA mtg and Selma James reception To: [email protected]
*Hello all: Please rsvp for HALAs Friday Nov 30 meeting and special reception afterward for author and womens rights activist Selma James!* ** ** **** *Hunger Action Los Angeles* *MONTHLY MEETING*** ** ** [image: DSCN1449] **** * * *Friday November 30 2012* *10 am to 12 Noon* *Location: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy --- * **Look for signs at building for room location as they are doing remodeling* ** *464 S. Lucas St. LA CA 90017* *(Just west of downtown, on Lucas btw. 6th and 3rd st.: Free parking! )*** * * *Agenda* * * *1.Post Election Update* *What do the results of the federal election, the new make up of the state legislature, the passage of propositions 30 and 39, and the failure of prop 37 mean for the food justice/social justice movements in LA? Well discuss and share what we know *** * * *2. Next Steps on Local Food Sovereignty* *Following up from the November 1 rally at City Hall, what are the next steps for urban ag, street vending, and grassroots food distribution? Well begin the discussion *** * * *3.Special Presentation: Worker Owned Cooperatives, An Idea Thats Succeeded* *In September, longtime activist Nancy Berlin, Kitty Kroger and Adele Wallace traveled to Spain to learn first-hand about the Mondragon Cooperatives, a network of worker-owned co-ops in the Basque Country that's been up and running for over 50 years and now includes over 80,000 workers. Come hear what they discovered, and join us in thinking and dreaming about how the lessons of Mondragon might be used to create a more humane economy here at home.*** * * *Please RSVP: [email protected] or (213) 388 8228* *SPONSORED BY HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES*** * * * * *And stay around afterward for another special event:* * * **** *Reception for Selma James* *(also at LAANE, at 12:30 pm after the Hunger Action LA meeting)* * * *Selma James,* womens rights, antiwar and anti-racist activist, author and international coordinator of the Global Womens Strike, is returning to the LA area November 27th through Dec 1st. **** ** ** Called one of the key political thinkers and activists of our times, Selmas work has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and organizing across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, age, etc., South and North. **** ** ** Building on her well-received tour last spring on the publication of her book *Sex, Race and Class, The Perspective of Winning **-- A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011*, Selmas visit here is part of a tour in the US and Canada to help build the grassroots movement for change and launch the campaign to eliminate child poverty and value caregiving.**** * * ********************************** ** ** Frank Tamborello**** Hunger Action Los Angeles**** 961 S. Mariposa #205**** Los Angeles CA 90006**** 213-388-8228**** [email protected]**** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
