Food Justice class meets Saturday

Nov19

tomato justicePlease join OKT for week 2 of its free, four-session class series that explores what is food justice is, why we need it and what we can do in Grand Rapids to make it happen. The class, “The Food Justice Movement: Moving Forward,” will meet 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturdays Nov. 21,  Dec. 12 and Dec. 19  at Garfield Park Lodge, 334 Burton St. SE 49507.

OKT staff member, Stelle Slootmaker, is facilitating this dialogue that covers:

  1. Defining food justice and food sovereignty–what does it all mean?
  2. How the current food system came to be and the injustices it promotes (food apartheid, exploitation of workers and animals, environmental destruction, nutrient-poor foods, et al.)
  3. Why food justice is about overcoming racism, sexism consumerism and
    other “-isms.”
  4. What the Food Justice Movement is doing to create a better world and defining our part in it, here in Grand Rapids.

Reading material for the class will include the book Our Food, Our Right and the OKT Food Justice Series.

  • You can view the PowerPoint from class 1 here:

1 The Food Justice Movement Moving Forward

Please email OKTable1@gmail.com to let us know you are coming!