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- East New York Farms! Begins New Season - The East New York Farms! project will open its seasonal market on Saturday, June 30th. East New York Farms! is an urban [...] two community gardens that use sustainable growing methods, and a Saturday market with local growers and vendors.

- June 23rd & 24th: Tacoma Really Really Free Market and Food Not Bombs this weekend! - Tacoma Really Really Free Market and Food Not Bombs this weekend! Free stuff and free food in Tacoma! [...] to get rid of stuff, bring it here! Come hang out and create community. Food Not Bombs is serving around 3pm.

- Guerrilla Gardens - For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of [...] places whose main motivation is profit. When we start to reclaim some of this space we begin to take back our lives.

- Toxic Soil Busters Day Celebrated June 20th - The youth-lead cooperative, “Toxic Soil Busters” – a program of the Worcester Roots Project – held a press [...] to welcome four new board members to the grassroots Worcester-based non-profit. Watch the video of the media event!

- Desplazados Pero No Derrotados. South Central Farmers Displaced, but not Defeated. - LOS ANGELES 14 June 2007--Two hundred people came to the South Central Farm tonight to watch the corn grow. The [...] by RP | | South Central Farm: Encampment Reunion 2007 | | Photos from South Central Farm re-union VIDEO:

- Monsanto Buys Terminator Technology: U.S. approves take-over of seed company - On June 1, 2007 the United States Justice Department gave the green light for Monsanto's $1.5 billion takeover of the [...] farmers to buy new seed every year" said Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.

- Brooklyn Cultivates 21st Century Citizens - New York City’s asphalt will soon be sprouting leafy lettuce greens and feeding itself, according to Ian Marvy, [...] selling over 40 crops while educating people about organic produce and the effect agriculture has on the environment.

- South Central Farmers: Displaced, NOT Defeated - This month marks the one year anniversary of the brutal and violent eviction of the South Central Farmers. Every first [...] gather from 6pm to 8pm on the 13th outside of the farm at Alameda and 41st in vigil and reflection. Read more

- FORT LAUDERDALE FOOD NOT BOMBS Potluck 4 pm Friday June 1st - Join us for a communal potluck in downtown Fort Lauderdale, in the gazebo outside out of the Main Library (Broward Blvd ...

- Organizing small plot intensive (SPIN) vegetable growing cooperatives - Bob Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, has a new food project for Oklahoma. Below is his announcement: [...] grown vegetables is way bigger than the actual production of locally and organically grown vegetables... Read more>>

- Food Stamp Challenge 2007 - 420,000 Oklahomans rely on an average of $21 per person per week in food stamp benefits to meet their nutritional [...] organizations are issuing the Food Stamp Challenge to give Oklahomans a small taste of what it's like to be hungry.

- Another Victory in CIW Campaign: YUM! Brands Expanding Agreement - YUM BRANDS EXTENDS THE TACO BELL AGREEMENT TO THE REST OF ITS FIVE MAJOR BRANDS!… KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John [...] to six! See the AP story, in Business Week, here: "Yum Brands expanding farmworkers deal," 5/18/07

- Workshop: How to organize a local food cooperative - The Oklahoma Food Cooperative will host a three day workshop on May 17, 18, 19, 2007 in Oklahoma City on how to [...] order and delivery system. [For a profile about the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, see this Plenty Magazine article .]

- Working The Soil: A Look at DC's Community Gardens - Two years ago, my morning get-out-of-bed routine looked like this: A one-man jackhammer would cut through the earth and [...] fall of 2002. [This article published first in DC North. Support Community Papers. http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com]

- Down With the King: protests around the US - Students, unions, churches oppose human slavery in tomato fields, demand justice Champaign, IL - Burger King stores [...] fields and demand that the Burger King corporation pay just one cent more per pound of tomatoes it buys. Read more>>

- "CONCERT FOR FAIR FOOD" EXCLUSIVE - CIW "CONCERT FOR FAIR FOOD" ROCKS CHICAGO'S HOUSE OF BLUES… And shakes the House of Fast-Food! Here's what [...] farmworkers victory." read more Watch y ahora que? here | Ver y ahora que? aca

- Alert: FDA Attempting to Regulate Supplements, Herbs and Juices as "Drugs" - A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, [...] of grocery stores that has everything to gain by stifling our burgeoning farmer's market communities. read more >>

- On Cusp of Chicago Convergence, Immokalee Workers Win Demands from McDonald's - The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has announced a major victory in its efforts to improve the lives of migrant farm [...] entire fast food industry. Additional Coverage: Austin Indymedia | Gapers Block | Democracy Now!

- Sembrando Esperanza [Sowing Hope] - La lucha por la tierra es antigua. Frente a la extrema concentración de poder y la comercialización de la vida, [...] and mobilize people through campesino committees, from a rural communities base and at the national level.]

- On verge of major protest, CIW reaches landmark accord with McDonald's - Campaign surges forward with Burger King in its sights! Come to Chicago – now more than ever! Today, April [...] to the next level. Chicago IMC Coverage | Coalition of Immokalee Workers | Student Farmworker Alliance

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