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The 7th Congress 50% Food Initiative Official Launch
Saturday, March 20, 2010; 10 AM to 4:45 PM
with free optional community garden tour (tentative)
to the first 30 attendees only (you must request tour registration)
Enrollment space is limited and available first-come, first-served (no registrations held pending payment)
Holy Nativity Episcopal Church, Westchester
Preregistration required; late and day-of registration only if space permits
(See below for registration details)
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Citizens, Gardeners, and Friends:
We're thrilled to announce the schedule for the 50% Food Initiative Launch:
8:45 - 2:00
Registration (Note: Registration closes at 2 PM)
9:00 AM Optional
tour of church community garden (tentative, free with registration but limited to first 30 requests, must arrive by 8:50 AM or lose
reservation)
9:55 AM All attendees should be seated
10:00 - 10:10 Announcements and housekeeping (7th Congress, 10 min)
10:10 - 10:25 About the 50% Food Initiative: What is it? Why do we need it? (C. Darren Butler, 15 min)
10:25 - 10:35 Public reading of the draft 50% Food Initiative (C. Darren Butler, 10 min)
10:35 - 10:55 Audience Comments, Discussion, and Brainstorming (7th Congress, 20 min)
10:55 - 11:20 Keynote speaker: Milli Macen-Moore,
"Growing 50% of My Diet in an Urban Backyard," 25 min
11:20 - 11:35 Break (15 min)
11:35 - 12:25 Panel Discussion
12:25 - 12:30 Announcements before lunch
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch (45 min, be seated again by 1:10 PM)
1:15 - 1:40 Keynote speaker: David King,
"A Sustainable Abundance," 25 min
1:45 - 2:40 Concurrent Workshops 1 and 2 (55 min)
Laurie Liles, "Salad at Your Door"
Mud Baron, "What Kids Learn in Gardens"
2:45 - 3:40 Concurrent Workshops 3 and 4 (55 min)
Evangeline Heath Rubin, "Apartment Farming: Growing Food Without Land"
C. Darren Butler, "Ecofriendly Gardening Methods/New-Paradigm Methods for Urban Gardening"
3:40 - 3:55 Break (15 min)
3:55 - 4:45 Carrying the Initiative (Volunteering)
4:45 Adjourn
On March 20, 2010, 7th Congress,
will officially launch the 50% Food Initiative, grassroots legislation
by the people to produce real results for a sustainable future. We hope you'll join us for this landmark event. Scroll to the end of this message for the first lines from the draft 50%
Food Initiative, to be presented in full to the public for the first
time on March 20, and thereafter offered to those assembled for
discussion and amendment.
Sincerely, Presiding Speaker, C. Darren Butler
Managing Speaker, Zoe Smith
Resource Speaker, Christine Tope
Technology Speaker, Kathryn Brown
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 The 50% Food Initiative
Where would your food come from during a natural disaster or other
crisis that interrupted distribution to supermarkets?
What have you
done personally to increase your own food
security and future generations' ongoing access to nourishing, healthy
food?
Are you interested in learning to garden or grow food on
your own or shared land?
7th Congress, a prospective nonprofit organization formed to represent the interests, needs, and rights of the 7th
unborn generation, has resolved
that 50% of our urban land, including
residential, commercial, and municipal property, should be planted with
food gardens and food-producing plants that urban populations should
be educated so that agriculture becomes part of everyday urban life, as
familiar and comfortable to citizens as purchasing processed
food from supermarkets is today and that local communities, including
city and municipal governments, nonprofit organizations and for-profit
businesses, and individual citizens, should unite, organize, network,
and share resources for the purpose of achieving these goals.
Registration:- Cost: Sliding scale
$10 to $50 ($35 recommended)
- Waiting list available for free volunteer
attendance
- Waiting list available for free/scholarship attendance
- No refunds (substitute
attendance welcome or funds may be credited toward a future event)
- Please plan to bring at least one canned food item to support the church's food drive
- Lunch not included; bring nonrefrigerated, vegetarian or vegan potluck snacks to share and your own nonrefrigerated lunch, or plan to leave the site for lunch
- To register please make please make payment to "Zoe Smith" and send to Zoe Smith, 1136 Van Buren Ave, Venice CA 90291
To continue receiving 7th Congress announcements, follow the link at the top if this email to join the 7th Congress emailing list.Know an expert in urban food gardening or a related area who could round out our panel? Contact us (see below).Contact: Zoe Smith, The7thCongress@gmail.com, (310) 339-5738 or use the link at www.7thCongress.org
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From the draft 50% Food Initiative:
In solemn understanding of the inseparability of food and life; in
profound appreciation of the importance and enormity of the task
accomplished by Earth's natural systems in providing sustenance to all
its living beings; and on behalf of living and unborn generations, 7th
Congress hereby asserts:
...that access to healthy, nourishing food is a fundamental right of human beings and all other living beings;
...that the vast subjugation and control
of the Earth's lands and waters by humans for the purpose of producing
food for humans is not in our own best interest, nor the best
interest of future generations, nor that of other life on
Earth;
(full initiative to be presented to the public for the first time on March 20)
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