TAKING BACK OUR FOOD SYSTEM

Beginning in the Bay Area, CFJC and Food First issued a call to action in California communities to Take Back Our Food System. Launched at the 15th Annual Food Justice conference in Oakland in 2011, our call to action celebrates local food justice activities. We are organizing events throughout California in 2012 that spark discussion, connect people to issues and each other, build solutions and culminate in a People’s Food Justice Summit. All of CFJC’s grassroots efforts are about building the movement to Take Back Our Food System.

CFJC’s Taking Back Our Food System Initiatives

Farm Bill Workshops Kitchen Table Talks

Regular Bay Area Events

People’s Food Justice Summit

Leadership Development

Previous Taking Back Our Food System Initiatives

Occupy the Food System

15th Annual Food Justice Conference

Previous TBOFS Events with Partners

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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November

Conversation and Workshop,

“What is the Food System 101″ with Occupy the Food System group (1/17/12)

“Stop the Roundup”action plus community dinner with Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (2/27/12)
Occupation for Self Determination with the Uhuru House (2/25/12)

Cesar Chavez Celebration

at Berkeley Farmer’s Market in partnership with Berkeley Ecology Center (3/27/12)

Coming Soon

Oakland Indy Awards with Oakland Food Connection (5/31)
Bayer Action in Berkeley with the Occupy the Food System Group (5/16)
Kitchen Table Talkwith Spiral Gardens (5/2/12)

Play Day on the Plazawith Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (6/29)

Throw Down for the Townwith Ella Baker Center (7/28/12)
Door to door canvassing outreachfor City Slicker Farm‘s Saturday Farm Stand plus cooking demo at Farm Stand (7/21)
Door to door canvassing outreach for and support at the Oakland Food Connections Farm Stand Grand Re-Opening (7/14)

Trans Bay Community Potluck and Partyat DeFremery Park with San Francisco’s Families Explore the Bay (also in partnership with People’s Grocery, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, O.B.U.G.S and Mandela Marketplace) (8/11/12)

Survival Pending Transformation of Societywith the Intercommunal Institute of Research and Social Change in Vallejo (see blog covering event) (8/25/12)

Eat Real FestivalTabling with a DIY herb butter making station (partnering with Acta Non Verba and Food First) (9/22/12 and 9/23/12)
Unity Day in VallejoMulticultural Festival – partnered with Loma Vista Farms and IIRSC (9/16/12)

Food Day at Tassafaronga Co-hosted Oakland’s biggest Food Day celebration which included 3 cooking demos, performances, relay races and more. (10/21/12)
Life is Living Festival Coordinated the Harvest Village at the festival which included a free breakfast for over 300 people, a produce stand, food justice activities and more. (10/13/12)

Book event: Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice. An evening to celebrate our emerging new food systems with Raj Patel and Heather Day from the Community Alliance for Global Justice. (11/8)

For current TBOFS events, please visit our event page, http://cafoodjustice.org/get-involved/events/!