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Community to Community Development is a place based, women-led grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities. We are committed to systemic change and to creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global movements towards social, economic and environmental justice.

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• WHATCOM FOOD NETWORK FORUM-MONDAY, MAY 20

  

  Monday, May 20, 2013   •   1-4:30pm
  St. Luke’s Health Education Center – 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. Bellingham

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  C2C Executive Director and Whatcom Food Network

  Steering Committee Member Rosalinda Guillen will be presenting

  On domestic fair trade in agriculture and the food system.

  She will also be reporting on the results of the National Farm Worker

  Convocation taking place in Bellingham on Saturday May 18, 2013.

  For more information:  www.whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/foodnetwork or email: whatcom.fn@wsu.edu with questions.

  

  Working to build common understanding and facilitate collaborative efforts
  toward an equitable, sustainable and healthy food system for all.

• Thank you to our community for a successful Farm Worker March for Dignity!!

   

  Farm Worker March for Dignity!

  Sunday May 5^th, 2013

  Que Vivan los Campesinos! Over 300 farm workers and community members marched together for DIGNITY!

  THANK YOU to the numerous local restaurants and businesses that made this march a possibility!  Please support these local businesses that support C2C! 

  Sol de Mexico Restaurant
  Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant

  Chihuahua Mexican Restaurant

  Taco Lobo Mexican Restaurant
  Lorenzo’s Mexican Restaurant

  Guadalupe de la Mora Agency

  Bellingham Food Co-op

   

   

   

   

• WomenShare: Hungry for Change

  Executive Director, Rosalinda Guillen, joined 160 women leaders from across the U.S. representing diverse sectors of the food and agriculture system at the first ever WomenShare gathering.  Rosalinda shared the local, grassroots farmworker perspective at this conference.

  The goal of WomenShare is to inspire new thinking, deepen networks, empower women as leaders and,
  most importantly, propel a shared vision into action.

  Presenters included:

  Penolope Jagessar Chaffer

  Kathleen Merrigan

  Frances Moore Lappe

  Nina Simons

  LaDonna Redmond

  Melissa Nelson

  Rosalinda Guillen

  Nikki Henderson

  Judy Wicks

  
  
• WE REACHED OUR GOAL! SI SE PUEDE!

  We are proud to announce that C2C reached it’s fundraising goal during our Cesar Chavez, Fund the Movement drive!

  We kicked this very special time of year off with our 7th annual Cesar Chavez Community Supported Justice Potluck and will be fundraising through April 23rd-the anniversary of Cesar Chavez’s passing.  

  C2C would like to thank C2C members, solidarity members, community partners, event co-sponsors and the many individuals and partner organizations that so generously gave!

  This is community supported justice! 

  Fund the Movement and Continue the Legacy of Cesar Chavez!  Consider donating before April 23rd as we surpass our goal of $5,000!

  DONATE online at www.foodjustice.org or send checks to Community to Community, 203 W. Holly, Suite 317, Bellingham, WA 98225.

   In addition to financial support, C2C’s programs have an  ongoing wish list of items needed for programming and we are always open to creative and innovative ways to raise money or in-kind donations.  In addition, we are always looking for volunteers who can provide much needed support to some of our programs. 

  Community to Community’s Wish List!

  “Like” us on facebook and follow our website for upcoming events, www.foodjustice.org.

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  “I don’t believe in charity; I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating.  It goes from top to bottom. Solidarity is horizontal.  It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.” -Eduardo Galeano

• In Honor of Women Everywhere!! International Women’s Day, 2013

  Community to Community Development is a place based,  women-led grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities.

  C2C remains committed to be an intentionally women-led social justice organization, putting our eco-feminist values into action on a daily basis and developing leadership from the bottom up.

  On this International Women’s Day, 2013 we recommit ourselves to the continuing struggle for the liberation of women everywhere! 

  We, the women of the world are turning our grief into strength! World March of Women Declaration, 2013