Hunger Incorporated: Why the Alliance between Corporations and Anti Hunger Groups Holds Us Back from Solving Hunger - two author talks from Andy Fisher on Monday, Oct. 23rd

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"From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages, offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and the resistance of wage increases.

"Author Andy Fisher comes to Chicago for two talks on Monday, Oct. 23rd, to lay out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.

Andrew Fisher is a leading national expert on community food security.  In 1994, he co-founded and led the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC), a national alliance of groups working on food access and local food, until 2011. During this time, he created and publicized the concept of community food security, and played a key role in building the food movement. He has played a lead role in gaining passage of numerous pieces of federal legislation, including the Community Food Projects and the Farm to School grant program. He has worked on a wide variety of food system topics, including food policy councils, community food assessments, healthy corner stores, coalition building, and farm to cafeteria. He has taught at various universities in Oregon, and is currently an adjunct instructor in the public health department at Portland State University. He served as an interim executive director at Portland Fruit Tree Project from 2015-2017. His book on the anti-hunger movement, “Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups” was released by MIT Press in April, 2017."

See him this Monday, Oct. 23rd only, at Great Cities Institute, 412 S. Peoria, Suite 400 from 12pm-1pm https://greatcities.uic.edu/event/hunger-incorporated-why-the-alliance-between-corporations-and-anti-hunger-groups-holds-us-back-from-solving-hunger/ and later that evening at Build Coffee, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave, 6pm-7:30pm. https://www.semcoop.com/event/andrew-fisher-big-hunger-unholy-alliance-between-corporate-america-and-anti-hunger-groups