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News and Events
- KUOW 94.9 FM Podcast-Interview with Rosalinda Guillen and Eric Holt-Gimenez
In case you missed Eric Holt-Gimenez and Rosalinda Guillen speaking about their new book, Food Movements Unite: Strategies to Transform Our Food System, with Steve Scher, KUOW 94.9 FM, you can listen by clicking on this link.
Rosalinda Guillen/Eric Holt-Gimenez Interview
Their interview starts at 15:55.
- Food Movements Unite!
Strategies to Transform our Food Systems
Community to Community, with Eric Holt-Gimenez, will hold community events at:
- 9:30AM on Sunday, January 22nd at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship’s Adult Sunday Forum
- 4:00PM on Sunday, January 22nd at Village Books in Fairhaven
- 7:00PM on Monday, January 23rd at Western Washington University’s Communications Facility, Room 110
Food Movements Unite!
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, and Rosalinda Guillen, Executive Director of Community to Community(C2C), will be speaking on the powerful work being done globally to regain control of our ailing food systems.
In this latest publication from Food First, the global food movement is diverse, widespread, refreshingly creative and tremendously powerful. Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems brings us the words, insights and vision of the remarkable farmers, workers and consumers from rural and urban communities around the globe as they address the critical question: How can we unite to transform the global food system?
21 activists and practitioners came together “from the trenches” of the food, fuel and environmental crises to speak to the future of the food movement. Eric Holt-Gimenez is the editor of this collaborative publication. Rosalinda Guillen and Community to Community are represented in the final chapter, ‘Transforming our food system by transforming our movement.’
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First is committed to eliminating the injustices that cause hunger. Founded by Francis Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins 35 years ago, in 1975, Food First continues its analysis of the ways economic globalization impacts the food system and jeopardizes all people’s human rights.
- Community to Community in the News Maria Cuevas, board member of Community to Community and a professor of sociology and Chicano Studies at Yakima Valley Community College, was featured in an article of Tú Decides news. You can read the article in Tú Decides.
Maria Cuevas, Secretary of C2C
- "People Are #1” by Roger Yockey
Today workers and unions are under attack in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states in the United States and other countries. There is indeed too much greed, too much profits, too much suffering by the poor. In 1989 and 1999 there were two Battles In Seattle as action was taken to protest corporate greed.
In 1999 the Battle In Seattle was at the World Trade Organization meeting where thousands of union members joined with other community organizations to demonstrate against unfair trade agreements and other elements of globalization which favored rich nations and multi-national corporations.
“People Are #1” is a book by Roger Yockey which tells the story of another, earlier Battle In Seattle. In 1989, thousands of union grocery workers were on strike for eighty-one days. The striking and locked-out workers walked picket lines in the Puget Sound area of Western Washington State proclaiming that “People Are #1”, not corporate profits.
Roger Yockey, author of "People are #1"
The story of the members of the UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (AFL-CIO) who waged the battle against corporate greed is
presented in the book not only from daily newspaper reports, but more importantly by striking and locked-out workers. Interviews with rank and file union members and union officers and staff are included in the book. But a special source is “The Picket Liner” a publication of UFCW Local 1105 which arrived every morning on the picket lines. The union daily newsletter told of scabs, and skunks, and support from other unions, churches, community organizations, and customers who refused to cross the the picket lines. This is the saga of determined union members who were determined to stay walking the picket lines as long as necessary. The workers won!The author participated in the grocery strike of 1989 as a staff member of UFCW Local 1105. Roger Yockey hopes this book preserves a significant story in
labor history. Just as union, church, and community members stood together in solidarity outside grocery stores in 1989 and won against corporate greed, the struggle continues today. And “People Are #1 , not corporate profits in 1989, 2011, always!“People Are #1” by Roger Yockey is the story of thousands of union grocery workers who were on strike for 81 days in 1989. The striking and locked-out workers walked picket lines in the Puget Sound area proclaiming that People Are #1, not company profits. It was a fight against corporate greed won by the workers and their union with the strong support of other unions, church and community organizations, and consumers.
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The book is available in paperback for $12 with money from the sales of the book in a special offer going to Community to Community, C2C. A copy signed by the author can be purchased for $12 a book plus $3 for shipping and handling by writing to Roger Yockey, 15026 40th Avenue West #4-104, Lynnwood, Washington 98087, and sending a check, payable to Roger Yockey. Please write the number of copies and your address and that you are a C2C supporter. Roger will send a check to C2C for each book sold.
Readers of “People Are #1” will also read about the boycott of Chateau Ste. Michelle winery and the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) seeking collective bargaining representation.
The book also tells of a historic 1974 boycott and strike in which “the strikers were virtually all Chicanas and 85 percent were women” who fought not only for wages and benefits, but also for dignidad, dignity.
You also will read how C2C supported grocery workers recently.
Purchase of“People Are #1” offers you and opportunity to learn about a part of labor history and to support C2C.
