Growing the Movement for Equity & Social Change:
CFJC believes it’s time for transformation and systemic change because our food system and its policies are killing people and our planet. To make the change we need, we must build people power. CFJC connects the dots on issues of poverty, food, health, the economy, public policy, climate change and social justice in effort to support and help grow a growing movement.
With the CFJC Messaging Campaign, we will provide materials and a frame in an effort to inspire action to Take Back Our Food System. We believe that together we can make the changes to create an equitable food system.
We invite you to check out our messaging materials below and let us know what you think.
What’s your message?
Farm Bill Re-Authorization Overview:
CFJC Infographics
Farm Bill Re-Authorization Overview:
TBOFS:
REAGANOMICS:
Connecting The Dots: Reaganomics is unjust and perpetuates inequities and disparities.
The assumption that tax cuts for the wealthy will stimulate the economy by “trickling down” is false. The United States’ tax code benefits the wealthiest 1% of households at the expense of the majority of tax payers[1]. Over the last 30 years fundamental changes in our tax code have been unjust. For example, work income is taxed at up to twice the rate as wealth income[2]. At the Community Food and Justice Coalition, we believe this is unacceptable.
CFJC doesn’t stand for such inequities, which is why we make it our business to connect the dots between inter-related issues. Economics, social justice, health and food are intricately linked to each other: Our tax policies created a weak economy and widened the gap between the rich and the rest of us. This gap is exacerbating inequities and health disparities because it unfairly shapes the social determinants of health[3]. Power and resources are being concentrated at the top and are increasingly out of reach for communities.
We must ask questions that challenge this power structure: Why is it easier in some communities to get a gun than it is to get fresh, organic produce? Why are farmworkers some of the most food insecure communities in our country? Do you have grocery stores or liquor stores in your neighborhood? Why aren’t food workers paid living wages? Who are the food workers in the United States? Why don’t we the people get to vote on the Farm Bill? Why isn’t fresh produce cheaper than junk food? Why is childhood obesity and diabetes so prevalent?
We can’t stay silent against injustices; this is not our business as usual. Now is time for the people to rise up, take action, and be the leaders we need.
[1] Colorlines- race and taxes article.
[2] Colorlines- Bernie Sanders tax plan
[3] Circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, age, and the systems they interact with. Circumstances are shaped by distribution of money, power, and resources at local, national, and global levels. –WHO.
Wealth Inequality in America
SNAP:
CFJC Videos
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Kellogg Foundation’s Food & Community Conference 2012:
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CFJC Executive Director, Y. Armando Nieto speaks at the Kellogg Foundation’s Food & Community Conference.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
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Y. Armando Nieto speaks about Congress and SNAP. |
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Lorette Picciano, Executive Director of the Rural Coalition, on GOAT (Getting Our Act Together) and the farm bill. |
Taking Back our Food System:
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Occupy the Food System swarms Bayer in Berkeley to protest the manufacturing of pesticides that are harming our bee population. |
Survival Pending Transformation of Society:
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Stan Oden of the IIRSC speaks about the Vallejo event. |
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The Intercommunal Institute for Research and Social Change, a project of the Huey P. Newton Foundation, has opened its new office in Vallejo and is putting on an inaugural event in conjunction with CFJC. This community education forum served as an informational session and community discussion with an inspiring panel of local and lifelong activists. Speakers included former Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party David Hilliard, Kelly Carlisle of Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project and Eric Holt-Jimenez of Food First. Food was served along with music and a lively discussion of how to effect change in our community. |
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Jymbo Boyden speaks on why people should attend the Vallejo event. |
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Open house for the Intercommunal Institute for Research and Social Change. Located in Vallejo, Ca. |
15th Annual CFSC Food Justice Conference:
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Elias Araujo of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) discusses the importance of occupation at the 2011 Community Food Security Coalition’s annual Food Justice Conference held in Oakland. |
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Tezozomac of the South Central Farmers discusses organizing the Food Justice Movement at the 2011 Community Food Security Coalition’s annual Food Justice Conference held in Oakland. |
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CFJC, Gender, International Movements |
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 and the Farm Bill Extension included in the Fiscal Cliff Deal
Department of Agriculture 2013 Fiscal Budget: Sequestration and the Ryan/House and Obama Budgets
USDA budget proposals for the 2013 fiscal year from the Obama administration and from the House of Representatives, as well as the across-the-board sequestration cuts impact USDA programs and services in different ways. The following visual represents the impact each budget has on food access, crops, food safety, research, rural communities, and conservation projects.
Timeline: Approaching the Fiscal Cliff
The 2013 Fiscal Year: Sequestration and the Ryan/House and Obama Budgets
Budget proposals for the 2013 fiscal year from the Obama administration and from the House of Representatives, as well as the across-‐the-‐ board sequestration cuts impact Federal departments, programs and services in different ways. The following visual represents the impact each budget has on a wide variety of programs that includes disaster relief, the environment, energy, healthcare, social security, defense, government, taxes, jobs, immigration, trade, education, food access, housing, and agriculture.
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