Dear Pete & Tycho: Thanks for the heads up on this event. Hazel H is terrific and the justice group sounds great. Sorry I'll be out of town next weekend. Please addd me to any sign up sheet for the Ag Just PRoject and I look forward to other get togethers. best Tony
On 10/6/07, pete meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LIVING WAGE, LIVING FOOD: > > Sunday, October 14th at the Ithaca Farmer's Market - Noon-3pm > Location will be the north end circle of booths. > > > > An interactive community gathering on "Living Wage" implementation within > our local food systems. Other topics could include local food security and > development, local fair trade, and migrant farmers' issues. Let's > strengthen our local food economy! > > A collaboration of Alternatives Federal Credit Union, The Tompkins County > Workers' Center, and .The Agricultural Justice Project > Keynote Speaker: ELIZABETH HENDERSON of The Agricultural Justice Project > > The Agricultural Justice Project (AJP) is a non-profit initiative to > create > fairness and equity in our food system through the development of social > justice standards for organic and sustainable agriculture. > > - Discussion to follow facilitated by Pete Meyers of the Tompkins County > Workers' Center. > > Pete will give a brief history of the Living Wage movement and segue into > a discussion period. > > Additional discussion topics: > > -The state of the local or "slow" food movement in Tompkins County. > > -The Fair Trade movement as a model for success. > > -The importance of consumer support in the food economy. > > -Who is working on the issues, and how to get involved. > > Farmers and Living Wage employers and employees are especially encouraged > to attend. > > More on the keynote speaker ELIZABETH HENDERSON: > > Elizabeth is a veteran food activist and New York state organic farmer for > over 26 years. She wrote Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to > Community > Supported Agriculture (Chelsea Green, 1999, 2007) and edited The Real > Dirt: > Farmers Tell About Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast > (1994). > For many years, she has served on the board of the Northeast Organic > Farming > Association (NOFA) and acted as their representative in efforts to > maintain > the integrity of organic standards and resist the industrialization of > organic agriculture. Recently, she has turned her attention to creating > the > Agricultural Justice Project, "For All Who Labor in Agriculture." Local > fair > trade, dignity, negotiated contracts for farmers, safe working conditions > and a living wage for farmers and farm workers are just a few of the > criteria for this compelling model for local agriculture. > > More on the AGRICULTURAL JUSTICE PROJECT: > > The immediate goal of the AJP is to create universal social standards for > sustainable and organic agriculture; to codify in concrete terms what > making a legitimate claim of "social justice" means. AJP partners knew > that > such a claim would be a powerful tool in the marketplace, and would need > to > be backed up by strong standards and a reliable verification system. > > For more info and to check out their AWESOME vision statement go to: > > www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/ > > More on Living Wage: > > Living wage is a term used by advocates to refer to the minimum hourly > wage > necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. In the > context of developed countries this standard generally means that a person > working forty hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to > afford a specified quality or quantity of housing, food, utilities, > transport, health care, and recreation. This concept differs from the > minimum wage in that the latter is set by law and may fail to meet the > requirements of a living wage. > > For information on our inpiring local Living Wage campaign visit: > > www.tclivingwage.org/ > > For information on other Living Wage campaigns across the country visit: > > www.livingwagecampaign.org/ > > > Pete Meyers > TC Workers' Center > 115 E. State Street > Ithaca, NY 14850 > 607-269-0409 > www.TCWorkersCenter.org > > > "As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. > As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. > As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free." > > > -Eugene Debs > > "The seed of our unhappiness lies in our wish to control how things will > be".--Roger Rosenbaum > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- "Fool's gold exists because there is real gold." -Rumi _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
