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From: Frank Tamborello <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Subject: a real newsletter
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! ****
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Keep your eyes open for a separate alert about Hunger Action LA’s 2013
Awards and Dinner---Honoring Champions Against Hunger and Poverty—and your
chance to nominate a Champion for this year---somebody doing this work who
hasn’t been getting recognition! See www.hungeractionla.org/dinnerandawards
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*September 5, 2013:*
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***1. ****Greater West Hollywood Food Line Needs
Support!
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***2. **** LA Food Policy Council “Healthy Food, Healthy Businesses”
This Saturday Sept. 7
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***3. ****State Legislative
Update
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***4. ****New Pasadena Co Op Needs Your Help!*
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***5. ****Editorial: The Anti Hunger Industrial Complex *
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***1. ****Greater West Hollywood Food Line Needs Support!*
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“Pop-up” restaurants and food trucks are trendy….but how about an older
tradition, food lines for homeless people? They are under attack, an easy
target for neighbors—even when they’re located in an industrial zone, as
the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition is, which has been serving up to
250 people a night for 13 years, every night of the week and holidays.****
Recently local TV reported on the issue we described last Friday****
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http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Free-Services-Attract-Too-Large-of-a-Crowd-for-Residents-and-Businesses-in-Hollywood/222448221
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*Act now: Please e mail the following LA City Councilmembers and tell them
to allow the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition to continue its program
at its current location until they find a new location*
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SAMPLE SUPPORT LETTER FOR GREATER WEST HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION****
Councilmember Tom LaBonge [email protected]
213 485-3337****
Councilmember Paul Koretz
[email protected]
213 473-7005****
Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell
[email protected] 213 473 7013****
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“I am writing to communicate my support for the Greater West Hollywood Food
Coalition (GWHFC).****
1. Please rescind the order from the Bureau of Street Services that the
Coalition (and UCLA) not have tables or chairs set out , and change it so
that the GWHFC (and UCLA) be allowed to continue with their regular set up
until they find a new location.****
2. Please use your time and resources to help the Greater West Hollywood
Food Coalition find a new site to provide service daily, which they have
been providing at no taxpayer expense.****
3. Please gather real data regarding any negative claims that have recently
been attributed to the people served by the organization. ****
Your support will greatly affect the lives of those community members who
otherwise cannot advocate for themselves, will reduce the need for food
solicitation and make for a more productive community.****
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Thank you for your support,”****
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*Join us in support:* Contact [email protected] if you wish to
become more involved in this issue****
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*Volunteer at GWHFC:* From The Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition : “We
are looking for new volunteers who are willing to commit to giving a
minimum of 3 hours a month to help prepare the nightly meal we serve to the
needy and hungry in our community. If you find you love what we do, join us
weekly or every other week and become a kitchen supervisor in charge of
preparing the meal! ****
We are able to serve a very high quality meal every night thanks to the
caterers, restaurants, grocery stores, and bakeries who donate excess food
from their establishments to our organization. We use this donated food to
prepare a nightly meal consisting of casseroles, soup, salad, bread,
sandwiches, fruit, dessert and beverage for between 100 and 200 people.****
We call our nightly meal preparation “creative cooking”. We see what has
been donated that day and from these ingredients we create our meal—no
recipes included. Join us! We need you. Please contact Sebastian at
[email protected] “****
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***2. ****LA Food Policy Council “Healthy Food, Healthy Businesses”
This Saturday Sept. 7*
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Presented by the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, "Healthy Foods, Healthy
Businesses" is a business and leadership training geared to local grocery
store owners, corner store owners, restaurants and all aspiring food
entrepreneurs to share resources and training, both in general business
development and in healthy food retail. ****
This FREE event will be held from 9 AM - 5 PM at the Los Angeles Trade
Technical College, 400 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015.****
Register by phone - 323.452.3890****
Register by email - [email protected]****
Register on Eventbrite - neighborhoodmarkets2013.eventbrite.com****
We are also still looking for Korean speaking volunteers for the day! Free
lunch offered to all half day and full day volunteers. ****
Contact [email protected] if interested.****
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***3. ****State Legislative Update*
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*SB 283: *This commonsense bill to remove counterproductive ban on food aid
to people with past felonies was axed in the Assembly Appropriations
Committee. But the fight is not ending there. For more information on next
steps regarding this issue contact Jessica Bartholow, [email protected]***
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*AB 551: *This bill allows counties and cities to create Urban Agriculture
Incentive Zones in which property owners would get reduced property tax
liability in exchange for contracting their vacant land for urban ag use
for 5 years. This bill passed appropriations and could be going to the
Senate tomorrow!* *Contact Eli Zigas [email protected]****
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*SB 402: *SB 402 has passed out of both houses and is now headed to
Governor Jerry Brown's Desk! This bill would require all general acute care
hospitals and special hospitals that have a perinatal unit to adopt the
"Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding". Sample letter
http://www.calwic.org/policy-center/state ****
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*AB 191: *This bill to align Medi Cal and CalFresh passed Appropriations
and heads soon to the Senate floor: see alert here: *
http://cfpa.net/calfresh/ab-191-passes-senate-appropriations#more-2862 *
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*4.New Pasadena Co Op Needs Your Help!*
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*From founders of Arroyo Food Co-op:* Help start a co-op! Help save the
world! Support the Arroyo Food Co-op.****
Co-ops save the world, one community at a time. As a local, community
owned grocery store, the Arroyo Food Co-op will bring healthy, sustainable,
environmentally responsible food to the Pasadena community. We have a
location, we have an activated membership, now we just need your
help...okay, okay, we need your money too.****
Check out our Indiegogo campaign video, contribute, spread the word, and
help us make good food available to everyone. Here's the link:
http://igg.me/at/arroyofoodcoop/x/4411193****
Any questions? Want to get involved? Contact Tricia Keane, President of
the Board of the Arroyo Food Co-op, at [email protected] and check
out our website www.arroyofoodcoop.com .****
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*5.Editorial: The Anti Hunger Industrial Complex*
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Andy Fisher has been at the forefront of the community food movement since
its inception in the mid 1990s, as the co-founder and former executive
director of the Community Food Security Coalition. He is currently working
on a book about the anti-hunger field, and is also in the process of
starting a new organization focused on food policy. This editorial comments
on the presence of Fortune 500 companies on the boards of large anti-hunger
organizations, and if that conflicts with the true policy of ending hunger
through fair wages and justice in labor:****
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http://civileats.com/2013/09/05/the-anti-hunger-industrial-complex/****
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Frank Tamborello****
Hunger Action Los Angeles****
961 S. Mariposa #205****
Los Angeles CA 90006****
213-388-8228****
[email protected]****
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