On Feb. 27, an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food and corporate accountability organizations will join together for Occupy our Food Supply, a global day of action resisting the corporate control of food systems.
The call to Occupy our Food Supply, facilitated by Rainforest Action Network, is being echoed by prominent thought leaders, authors, farmers and activists including the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva, Food Inc.’s Robert Kenner, music legend Willie Nelson, actor Woody Harrelson, and authors Michael Pollan, Raj Patel, Anna Lappe, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Marion Nestle, among others.
“Occupy our Food Supply is a day to reclaim our most basic life support system—our food—from corporate control. It is an unprecedented day of solidarity to create local, just solutions that steer our society away from the stranglehold of industrial food giants like Cargill and Monsanto,” said Ashley Schaeffer, Rainforest Agribusiness campaigner with Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
To read more, click here. For a full list of supporters and more information on the events planned for Occupy our Food Supply, click here.
for added reference F28 is basically a combo anti-police-brutality/free speech action against the “suppression of the Occupy movement” (organized by the RCP for the curious, because even Avakian won’t blind you from a best-you-can-get-in-America possibility for revolution), and F29 is the national day of action called by Occupy Portland against ALEC, basically a massive corporate lobby (I have seen the full list of corporations which have donated to it, and it’s a good 30 pages long).
