Food Justice Videos

The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Each winner is awarded $3000 and brought to San Francisco for the award week and a backcountry camping trip. This video, made by Rikshaw Films, gives a little bit of insight into the kind of work the Institute is promoting with this award. Diana Lopez is a food justice activist in San Antonio, Texas, and she created the Roots of Change community garden in the Eastside of San Antonio to provide fresh organic food to community residents.

In a Brooklyn inner-city community residents are fighting to keep their farm. The Bed-Stuy farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4000 people a month through an emergency food pantry. The farm is a source of community pride that has inspired neighborhood greening, backyard food gardening and food pantry agriculture projects. It is a constant reminder to residents that better nutrition and healthy eating are within our grasp. Now, though, the farm is threatened by development. Watch the video and learn how you can help preserve the Bed-Stuy Farm.

In a Brooklyn inner-city community residents are fighting to keep their farm. The Bed-Stuy farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4000 people a month through an emergency food pantry. The farm is a source of community pride that has inspired neighborhood greening, backyard food gardening and food pantry agriculture projects. It is a constant reminder to residents that better nutrition and healthy eating are within our grasp. Now, though, the farm is threatened by development. Watch the video and learn how you can help preserve the Bed-Stuy Farm.

April 9: Concentration of Power in the Global Food System 7pm, MonkeyWrench Books (110 E. North Loop) Discussion on how free trade agreements -- partnerships between governments and corporations -- centralize food production and concentrate market power. Paul Martin, Siempre Sustainable NetworkCarmen Llanes, PODER & Texas Fair Trade CoalitionEva Hershaw, PhotojournalistModerator: Sthea Mason, American Friends Service Committee