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Community 2 Community Bellingham, Washington Norman Borlaug Father of the Green Revolution “I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this.” John Steinbeck

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Community 2 Community

Bellingham, Washington

Norman Borlaug

Father of the Green Revolution

“I want to put a tag of shame

on the greedy bastards who

are responsible for this.” John

Steinbeck

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FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC GRASSROOTS INITIATIVES

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty

– Africa USFSPrize 2016

Farmworker Association of

Florida USFSPrize 2016

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FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC GRASSROOTS INITIATIVES

Black Fraternal Organization of

Honduras USFSPrize 2015The Federation of Southern Cooperatives

USFSPrize 2015

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“Our liberation starts because we can

plant what we eat. This is food

sovereignty. We need to produce to

bring autonomy and sovereignty to our

peoples. If we continue to consume, it

doesn’t matter how much we shout and

protest. We need to become producers.

It’s about touching the pocketbook, the

surest way to overcome our enemies. It’s

also about recovering and reaffirming

our connections to the soil, to our

communities, to our land.”

OUR LIBERATION…

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GROUP OF 4, DESSALINES BRIGADE HAITI & BRAZIL VIA CAMPESINA USFSPRIZE 2013

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC GRASSROOTS INITIATIVES

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Haitian formers

Burning Monsanto’s FREE Gift of GMO

seeds in 2011

USFSPrize 2013Community 2 Community

Bellingham, Washington

USFSPrize 2014

Rosalinda Guillen

The indigenous knowledge that the women have stored for

centuries must be saved and humanity remains viable only if

agriculture is fundamentally transformed.

“Our survival and your survival are intrinsically linked. …. We

are the first to die.” Rosalinda

SUCCESSFUL BOYCOTT of Driscoll fruits and Hagen-Daas

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BEARING WITNESS

WARNING: solutions need to come from inside the community instead of being

imposed from the outside. She warned against the “solution-oriented mindset” that

can cause people to perpetuate a “certain kind of colonialism.”

• Boycott

• On the Street with branches

and other organizations

• Support USFSAlliance/Prize

• Gender analysis –

Transformative Agenda –

CSW62

• Join with Communities of

Color

• Policy changes; FAO Food &

Agricultural Org. UNECOSIDE

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Community 2 Community

Bellingham, Washington

Norman Borlaug

Father of the Green Revolution

“I want to put a tag of shame on

the greedy bastards who are

responsible for this.” John Steinbeck