Food Security panel at Grassroots Economics Fest on 9/26 in Oakland

[Guest guest]

EVENT: Festival of Grassroots Economics: Building an economy for the People

and the Planet

DATE: September 26th, 2009 (Sat.)

TIME: 10AM to 4PM

PLACE: Humanist Hall, 390 27th Near Broadway, Oakland

Free to the Public!

Meet people working together to grow food in the city and bicycle mechanics

teaching basic skills. Discuss worker cooperatives with members of new and

established co-ops. Meet tenants organizing to own housing collectively, see

demonstrations of renewable energy and greywater installations and talk to

people organizing to share resources through timebanks. Learn how to work for a

peoples' globalization through Fair Trade practices. And see many more projects.

The festival is a bottom-up trade fair that will show what people working

together can do to help each other meet real needs.

Panels will be discussing how to start a worker cooperative, financial and other

support resources for the grassroots economy, urban food security, and building

the alternative by creating synergies between the different aspects of the

grassroots economy and environmental and social justice organizations.

Panel schedule at http://www.jasecon.org/