[act-ma] Food Fight! Grassroots Strategies Around the World to Fix a Broken Food System 12/7

[Marty Wrin]

www.grassrootsonline.org
Action for Food and Justice in Brazil
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Food Fight! Grassroots Strategies Around the World to Fix a Broken Food
System
 
Grassroots International invites you to join us for an evening with Luis
Antonio Pasquetti, national project coordinator of the Brazilian Landless
Workers Movement (MST)
 
 
Friday, December 7
7:30 p.m.
desert and coffee
hosted by Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly
in Jamaica Plain, Boston 
 
Please email  info at grassrootsonline.org or phone 617.524.1400 to RSVP and to
get directions.
 
We hope to inspire your financial support, so please bring your checkbook!
 
If you cannot attend, please consider sending a tax-deductible check
to:
 
Grassroots International, 179  Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 
 
Or donate online at  (http://www.grassrootsonline.org/donate)
www.grassrootsonline.org/donate
 
 
Luis Antonio, who has been a leader of MST for 20 years, will discuss with
us the current situation of this incredibly inspiring social movement.  For
23 years, the MST, Latin America's largest social movement, has been
building a vibrant rural society as families occupy and settle on previously
unproductive land. The MST's success lies in its ability to organize and
educate. Members have not only managed to secure land, therefore food
security for their families, but also continue to develop a sustainable
socio-economic model that offers a concrete alternative to today's
globalization that puts profits before people.  Now, with an
estimated 2 million members, the MST is facing new challenges in the
struggle to protect rural food sovereignty as Brazil becomes the epicenter
of the bio-fuels boom.
 
 
 
 
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Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by
building alliances with progressive movements. We provide grants to our
Global South partners and join them in advocating for social change. Our
primary focus is on land, water and food as human rights and nourishing the
political struggle necessary to achieve these rights. 
 
 


Wrin, Marty
Co-Founder
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