---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Tamborello <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM Subject: update: press conference homeless bill of rights tomorrow 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**** Like our new Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunger-Action-Los-Angeles/133467296826961**** ** ** *April 22, 2013: * Thanks to colleagues LA Community Action Network, Andy Fisher, John Farion, and Jessica Bartholow for referring some of the items below. **** * * ***1. ****Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Lets End the Criminalization of Poverty * ***2. ****Press Conference AB 5 Homeless Bill of Rights, Tuesday April 23* ***3. ****Follow that Chef Cooking Challenge: Eating Healthy on a SNAP Budget, Saturday April 27 at Santa Monica Farmers Market*** ***4. ****Tragic Human Cost of Sequestration*** ***5. ****Up to 50% of Food Harvested In The World is Wasted*** ***6. ****Ontario Food Bank Volunteers Form A Union to Make Demands on the Province*** ***7. ****Freedom of Choice in the Grocery Store?*** ** ** ************************************** *1. Hunger Action LA Training April 26: Lets End the Criminalization of Poverty* **** The next HALA Monthly Meeting, Friday April 26 at LAANE , 464 S Lucas, from 10 am to 12 noon will be a training on the current California proposals aimed at ending the criminalization of poverty, including but not limited to AB 5 (the Homeless Bill of Rights) and SB 283 (the Successful Re-Entry and Access to Jobs bill). The training will not just cover bill information, but how to successfully communicate with your public officials, the media, and your friends and neighbors about important issues such as these.**** Free and open to the public! RSVP to [email protected] **** SB 283 has a Facebook page you should check out:**** https://www.facebook.com/pages/Successful-Re-entry-SB-283/227210493968835 ** ** ** ** *Hunger Action Day approacheth: *The annual pilgrimage to Sacramento to speak about hunger in our communities takes place on Wednesday May 22 (Tuesday May 21 if you join us on the bus: otherwise meet us at the capitol on Wednesday May 22.) About 400 people are anticipated from all over California (Bay Area, Northern Cal, Central Valley, Central Coast, LA County, San Diego). See www.hungeractionla.org for full details. RSVP [email protected] if you can participate, whether you go with us by bus or meet us up in Sacramento. **** * * ****************************************************************************** **** *2. Press Conference AB 5 Homeless Bill of Rights, Tuesday April 23 11 am* * * >From our colleagues at LA CAN: Tomorrow AB 5, the Homeless Bill of Rights, will be facing its first challenges in Sacramento. The bill is going to be heard in front of the Judiciary Committee and this would be the first step the bill must take in order to become law. We know that everyone cannot afford to fly or drive to Sacramento in these harsh economic times. LA CAN will like to invite you to show your support at the local level by attending a press conference which is occurring at the same time of the state hearing. **** Tomorrows press conference will be:**** Where: 820 S. Burlington Los Angeles, CA. 90057**** Time: 11:00 a.m. please arrived 10 to 15 min before. **** For any additional questions, please call me at (213) 713-7113**** ** ** ** ** The Homeless Bill of Rights will give equal rights (not special rights) to those living on the street. For some more details on the bill see:**** Committee for the California Homeless Bill of Rights http://cchbr.weebly.com/homeless-bill.html **** Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheHomelessBillofRights **** Op Ed by bill author Asm. Tom Ammiano http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-ammiano/lets-pass-ab5_b_2535701.html **** Learn more at the Hunger Action LA Training, Friday April 26 10 am at 464 S Lucas Ave: see first item on this newsletter**** * * ***************************************************************** *3. Follow that Chef Cooking Challenge: Eating Healthy on a SNAP Budget, Saturday at Santa Monica Farmers Market, 2nd & Arizona* * * The Santa Monica Farmers Market and the Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories are pleased to present a special Challenge Edition of their "Follow That Chef" cooking classes.**** On Saturday April 27th join acclaimed chefs Nyesha Arrington from Wilshire Restaurant and Stefano de Lorenzo from the Michelin-starred restaurant La Botte in a SNAP Challenge: Cooking from the Farmers Market on a SNAP (Food Stamp) budget.**** Also participating in the shopping and cooking challenge will be Santa Monica Mayor Pam O'Connor and Farmers Market Supervisor Laura Avery, who will lend their talents as assistants to the chefs.**** ** ** Participants will meet at the Saturday Santa Monica Farmers Market information booth (2nd & Arizona) at 9:00 am to shop with the chefs, then walk to the nearby Gourmandise School on the 3rd floor of Santa Monica Place for a cooking challenge - to create a delicious vegetarian dish for four on a food stamp budget. Three judges will be selected from the audience. **** After the challenge winner is announced, there will be a discussion of chronic food insecurity in this country with Andy Fisher, founder of the Community Food Security Coalition; Frank Tamborello, director of Hunger Action Los Angeles, and other guests. Andy will discuss his own experiences of living on a SNAP budget and his forthcoming book "Hunger, Inc". **** The class and panel are free and open to the public, participants must register at**** www.thegourmandiseschool.com 310-656-8800**** Many thanks, as always, for your support of the Farmers Market.-----Laura Avery, Farmers Market Supervisor, Santa Monica Farmers Markets**** ** ** ***************************************************************** *4. Tragic Human Cost of Sequestration* * * By Greg Kaufmann**** Sequestration can seem a little vague, abstract, difficult to wrap your head around. But heres what it means when it comes to housing: up to 140,000 fewer low-income families receiving housing vouchers, more children exposed to lead paint, higher rent for people who cant afford it and a rise in homelessness.**** These are among the human costs of sequestration noted in a new paper by Doug Rice, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who has worked on housing policy for ten years.**** These kinds of cuts are really unprecedented, Rice told me. The Section 8 voucher program has been around for nearly 40 yearsit was created during the Nixon Administration and has had strong, bipartisan support for its entire history. Part of that support has consisted of Congress providing adequate money to ensure that the vouchers currently used by families are renewed from year to year.**** The rest at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/173677/week-poverty-sequestration-housing-homelessness **** ** ** ***************************************************************** *5. Up to 50% of Food Harvested In The World is Wasted* * * 30% to 50% of the food harvested in the world doesnt make it to anyones plate. Much of it is tossed due to cosmetic reasons. The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with "poor engineering and agricultural practices", inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities.**** ** ** http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste **** **** ***************************************************************** ** ** *6. Ontario (Canada) Food Bank Volunteers Form A Union to Make Demands on the Province* * * Check out www.freedom90.ca for an innovative way to "shorten the line" at food banks. Volunteers at food banks and emergency meal programs in Ontario have earned the right to speak out about poverty in our communities. Freedom 90 Union members are a new and powerful voice for change. The Freedom 90 Union demands urgent action by the Government of Ontario to end poverty and make food banks and emergency meal programs unnecessary.**** The 90 is there because the volunteers want to retire from volunteering by the time theyre 90 years old---through a just society that provides citizens with enough that they wont need food banks.**** ** ** ***************************************************************** *7. Freedom of Choice in the Grocery Store?* * * Consumers may look at the grocery store shelves and think they've got a multitude of options, but the truth is, the same huge corporations own all of the brand names, use the same toxic ingredients in the products and care not the slightest about your nutrition or health. Take a look at this diagram for proof that your freedom of choice in the grocery store is an illusion. See link:**** http://i.imgur.com/k0pv0.jpg **** ** ** ** ** **************************************** ** ** ** ** Frank Tamborello**** Hunger Action Los Angeles**** 961 S. 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