This Monday, Dec 12: HOW FAIR IS YOUR FOOD? FARMWORKERS, PESTICIDES, and FLORIDA
PBC EnviroCoalition
This month the PBC Environmental Coalition meeting will feature a
speaker on farmworkers and pesticides in Florida. We are hoping this
will be the start of a new style of meetings where we have informative
speakers along with our usual networking on environmental issues and
activist organizing.
The details are below.
Hope to see you there,
Panagioti Tsolkas
co-chair, PBCEC
p.s. Please spread the word about this event via emails, phone calls,
'social media', etc.
thanks!
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This Monday, Dec 12: HOW FAIR IS YOUR FOOD? FARMWORKERS, PESTICIDES, and FLORIDA
Have you ever thought about: Who’s got their hands in your food?
Over 50 years since Cesar Chavez and the farm-worker movement and since the
release of Edward R. Murrow’s famous ‘Harvest of Shame’, farm-workers are
still the ‘invisible ones’ in the discussion about our food.
Come hear about the ‘other side of the story’!
HOW FAIR IS YOUR FOOD?
FARMWORKERS, PESTICIDES, and FLORIDA
Learn what is happening all around us, but invisible to most of us
What does it mean to you and for you and for the food that you eat everyday?
Where is Lake Apopka and what do the lake’s environmental problems mean to
you and to farm-workers?
Presentation by Jeanie Economos of the Farm-worker Association of Florida
Date: Monday, December 12, 2011
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: Lake Worth Quaker House: 823 N. "A" Street, Lake Worth, FL 33460
For more information, contact: (561) 249-2071
To learn more about the Farmworker Association of Florida, visit their
website at: www.floridafarmworkers.org
Check out the Lake Apopka Memorial Quilt Project, a memorial to
farmworkers who have passed away, at:
http://apopkaquiltproject.blogspot.com/
View the YouTube video from the Fair Food Project at:
http://www.fairfoodproject.org/main/
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