Organic Uprising--Taking it to the community, April 9-10, 2011
An inspired Speak Out on Cultivating Food Justice
will open the two day Fourth Annual Cultivating Food Justice
event.
The Speak out will 9 am-10 am
be in the Mid City Gym
4302 Landis Street
San Diego, CA 92105-2612
(619) 516-3082
It is located one block south of
Wightman at Fairmount St.
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SPEAK OUT ISSUES
Michelle Obama and Amy Lint
April 15, 2011
Amy Lint, who led Michelle Obama, on tour through
the New Roots Community Farm last year with Balali Muya,
Keynote speaker on Sunday at the Cultivating Food Justice Conference.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE SPEAK OUT
9:00 am-10:00 am
at the Mid City Police Gymnasium
in City Heights.
The gymnasium is located at
4302 Landis Street
San Diego, CA 92105-2612
(619) 516-3082
Come Speak out on Cultivating Food Justice!
What is your message for our First Lady to deliver
to the President?
INTRO TO THE SPEAK OUT
April 15, 2010, a few days before the 2011 Cultivating Food Justice
Event at SDSU, Michelle Obama, our First Lady, came to the New Roots
Community Farm to launch her national campaign called "Let's Move!"
She said that all eyes of the nation were on this plot of land. Numbers
of the farmers who had plots inside the farm were left out of the event.
They had messages to speak. One year later, we return to City Heights
for our 2011 Cultivating Food Justice Event. We begin with a Speak Out
on Cultivating Food Justice. What are the Messages we would tell
from inside the gate now? What Messages does Washington and
City Government here in San Diego need to know about Cultivating
Food Justice? Michelle Obama said "Let's Move!" I say that the movement
can be called an Organic Uprising! We are all be asked to be Standing Up
for Nature's Original Technology. That is my Take. What is Yours?
A number of others will Speak Out at the Plenary. We want you to
Speak Out Too! This event will be recorded and sent to Washington
and be, as seeds, broadcast.
BACK BOARDS FROM THE PRESS TENT
FROM THE MICHELLE OBAMA VISIT
APRIL 15
Messages from inside the Gate...
What is the message you have to say
to our First Lady from inside the gate????
These are the back boards that were a gift from the California Endowment,
the group that put on the Michelle Obama event in 2010. They were a gift
to the Cultivating Food Justice Event. They will be brought to our
2011 Cultivating Food Justice Event and we will speak in front of them
just as Michelle Obama and other local dignitaries spoke in front of them
in 2010. What will you Speak Out on Cultivating Food Justice?
FOOD DESERT ARE GROWING
DUE TO THE DEREGULATION OF
GE FOODS
Unless we take a stand now....
for Food Justice...
Government is not looking out for us.
Farm Bill Cares about making money for industry
not the health of the people.
NUCLEAR ACCIDENT KEPT HIDDEN
Boeing Accidents kept Hidden...
ART
STANDING UP FOR NATURE'S ORIGINAL TECHNOLOGY,
ORGANIC UPRISING!
FROM THE NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST
MARCH 11, 2011 TO THE STREETS OF CITY HEIGHTS
APRIL 9-10 2011 WE ARE STANDING UP FOR
NATURE'S ORGINAL TECNNOLOGY.
WE ARE AN ORGANIC UPRISING
AND WE HAVE NATURE ON OUR SIDE
RELATED
LAUNCH OF ORGANIC UPRISING
AT #expowest
A RALLY CALL FROM ORGANIC INDUSTRY
LEADERS IS TOLD HERE IN THIS
VIDEO CALLED
"ORGANIC UPRISING #EXPOWEST
APRIL 9-April 10, the rallying call,
Organic Uprising, will be taken to the coommunity
of City Heights...as part of the two day
Cultivating Food Justice Event.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE SPEAK OUT
9:00 am-10:00 am
at the Mid City Police Gymnasium
in City Heights.
The gymnasium is located at
4302 Landis Street
San Diego, CA 92105-2612
(619) 516-3082
What does Cultivating Food Justice locally mean to you? From Leslie Goldman:
April 15, 2010, a few days before the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice
Event at SDSU, Michelle Obama, our First Lady, came to the New Roots Community Farm to launch her national campaign called “Let’s Move!” She said that all eyes of the nation were on this plot of land.
One year later, we return to City Heights for our 2011 Cultivating Food Justice Event. We begin with a Speak Out on Cultivating Food Justice. What Messages does Washington and City Government here in San Diego need to know about Cultivating Food Justice? What messages do we need to Speak Out among ourselves as we seek to create a local sustainable movement? Michelle Obama said “Let’s Move!” I say that the movement can be called an Organic Uprising! By Organically grown, I mean a lifestyle in sync with the beat of nature. Standing Up for Nature’s Original Technology seems a profound priority now,
That is my Take. What is Yours?
The format for the hour long plenary will be four speakers, each with five minutes. Then, we want to hear from you on what Cultivating Food Justice means to you? What messages do we want to Speak out as eyes turn again to City Heights.
This event will be recorded and available to
all who want to see and hear,
and be, as seeds, broadcast.
RELATED
President Obama told Michelle Obama
Show me the movement and I will act.
Organic Uprising is the movement
the earth her self is speaking now.
Let us hear the beat of nature.
HISTORIC CONVERGENCE OF EVENTS
MARCH 11
March 11 was the day that 500
Organic Stakeholders gathered to
galvanize an organic movement from top to bottom
and as we are now projecting,
from bottom, grassroots, to top.
Many divergent
ideas were expressed as the movement
that I call an Organic Uprising became to
grow, as the small organic seedlings of alfalfa,
an endangered crop now deregulated for Genetically Engineered
growth. I brought four little bowls of Organic Seedlings
to that industry expo of 55,000. The organic alfalfa seedlings
had deep meaning for many as Super Ripe Images
reveal in videos and still photos.
The seedlings were on stage at two of the main networking
events.
MY POSITION ON THE GALVANIZING OF
AN ORGANIC UPRISING!
It is time for all of us to come together.
Lettuce Keep The Beet, One Beet, Many Pulses.
We at the grassroots, are called to recognize
that the so called organic stakeholders were,
many of them, the hippies of the 60's.
The Stakeholders and the local gardeners
bonding and feeding each other from their
resources will co-create a movement that
creates the tipping point now to challenge
GMO non-labeling and turn the government
around in 18 months.
As Gary Hirshberg, Ce-Yo of Stonyfield Farms
said, "Our children will never forgive us
if we do not act now!
Those at the "top" are reaching out to
the grassroots organizers, just as Sol Price,
in 1999 saw a vision for an Urban Village
in City Heights. It was Price that gave money
for the Mid City Gym next to the Police station
where I see the Speak Out beginning our two day event.
MARCH 11, 2011
March 11, the day the organic stakeholders
came together to galvanize their part of the industry
was also the day, 5500 miles
away when the earthquake and tsunami hit.
QUOTE FROM JAPAN
FROM THE MAYOR OF A CITY
IN JAPAN FOLLOWING MARCH 11
'If anything good can come of this terrible time for Japan,
it might be that people in big cities question their lifestyle,
which relies so much on the electric power provided by nuclear plants
in little places such as ours,' he said.
'I hope that it prompts the government to rethink its reliance
on nuclear energy, too.'
And when, God willing, Japan emerges
from these dark days, perhaps the government
will learn that it pays to tell the truth.
OUR METAPHORIC ROCK OPERA scr!pt
FOR AN ORGANIC UPRISING
JOURNEYS FROM THE
SESSIONS AT THE NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO
MARCH 11-13
TO THE STREETS OF CITY HEIGHTS
APRIL 9-10
In the video, "Organic Uprising #expowest,"
one of a series on Organic Uprising,
key leaders reached out to launch
our Spring campaign "Organic Uprising!"
They voiced their support in many ways.
Some will send product, If I act now
and details of venue are confirmed.
Looking forward, we arrive at
City Heights...April 9-10, 2011
THE POWER OF CITY HEIGHTS
It was the New Roots Community Farm,
coordinated by Amy Lint, one of the volunteers
for the Cultivating Food Justice event,
where First Lady Michelle Obama
said, "All eyes are on this plot of land."
CIty Heights was the city, one of ten chosen
by the California Endowment in 2011
to receive more than 10 million in funds.
It was chosen because of years of work
by the visionary Sol Price Charities and others
to build up the an Urban Village as early as 1996.
Now a new generation of key community
activists and leaders, such as Amy Lint,
Maliki Obado (her husband) and many,
many others are taking a stand in CIty Heights.
BUILDING A BRDIGE BETWEEN THE
2010 and 2011 FOOD JUSTICE EVENT...
First Lady Michelle Obama breathes
herbs at the New Roots IRS Community Farm
April 15, 2010, Her visit came a week
before the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference.
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
ON THE 2010 MICHELLE OBAMA VISIT
A WEEK BEFORE THE 2010 CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE EVENT
Obama toured the New Roots Community Farm to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign against childhood obesity. The event kicked off a $1 billion project by The California Endowment to fund healthy living initiatives in 14 communities across the state, including the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where the community farm is located.
Some 80 farmers from a dozen countries work at the 2.3-acre farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee that started in June 2009 on city-owned land. Many grow vegetables, like kale, that they grew in the native countries they left because of civil wars and other violence.
"It's a model for the nation, for the world," Obama said after touring the 89 plots, where she hugged the farmers, including a Somalian woman who had Obama's picture and a map of Africa printed on her traditional bright blue dress.
The garden provides fresh produce to the refugees and their families. Some of the fruits and vegetables also are sold at a farmers market and to local restaurants, giving the refugees some income. About 90 percent of the farmers have been unable to find a job because they do not have the skills or do not speak English.
Millions of children in the United States live in what Obama called "food deserts," places where there is no easy access to grocery stores or farmers markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says about one-third of children in America are either overweight or obese.
ON TO THE 2011 SPEAK OUT
ON CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE
AN ORGANIC UPRISING!
RELATED MICHELLE OBAMA VISIT
2010
LESLIE WITH MICHELLE OBAMa's KIDS
RECORDING at THE NEW ROOTS COMMUNITY
FARM, APRIL 15, 2010
Leslie Heading for Washington in my head.
This was made in the tent about 45 minutes
after Michelle Obama Left the New Roots Garden.
The California Endownment gave me the backboards
used in the tent where First Lady Michelle Obama spoke.
We will use these same back boards in the speak out in City Heights
April 9, as part of the two day Cultivating Food Justice
Event. The opening tone will be one of a rally.
THE LOCATION HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED
AS OF MARCH 26, 2011!!!!!
When I wrote this,
I was projecting for this venue:
Speak Out will open Cultivating Food Justice Conference
9:15 am-10:15 am, Police Gymnasium,
April 9-10, 2011
This is called the Mid City Gym.
It was built by the Sol Price Charities,
who have given much to the city of City Heights.
WHAT MESSAGES
ABOUT CULTIVATING FOOD JUSITCE
WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE WHITE HOUSE
AND OUR FIRST LADY
FROM THE SPEAK OUT?
What does our First lady need to know now?
What does she need to tell the President
who said, "Show me the Movement?"
RELATED
SHOW ME THE MOVEMENT
This is from 2009...
The President turned to his First Lady
and said something like, "It's Your Project, baby!'
"Show me the movement. Make me do it!"
A few years later, we have to be the movement,
each of us an Organic Uprising!
WATCH MICHAEL POLLEN
FRAME THE NEED FOR OUR MOVEMENT
City Heights, a city with a New Roots Community Garden
that caught the attention of First Lady Michelle Obama,
becomes the site for a two day Cultivating Food
Justice Event, April 9-10, 2011.
The Venues include the City Heights Farmers' Market
where produce from the New Roots Community Garden is now sold,
to nearby community facilities.
Our mission is to gather the diverse San Diego / Tijuana region together to work towards creating an equitable and sustainable food system for all people through education, networking and direct action.
A Speak Out on Cultivating Food Justice
will kick off the two day event.
The back drop will be the back boards donated by
the California Endowment, from the Press Tent
where Michalle Obama spoke April 15, as dignitaries
from the city of San Diego gathered.
I just came home from a cultivating Food Justice
Conference planning meeting, Marh 23, 2011
and write this. Here are a few photos from the meeting.
Kate McDermott, Slow Foods Urban San Diego; joined Amy Lint,
coordinator of the New Roots Community Farm; Malaki Obado, her
partner; and me, Leslie, as we began to generate excitement about
the Speak Out on Cultivating Food Justice that will open the
2011 Cultivating Food Justice Conference.
I made a little raw video that captured the inspiration.
Amy facilitated the meeting that preceded our
inspirational moment. She was the tour guide
for Michelle Obama in her visit to San Diego
April 15. The Let's Move initiative was launched that
day.
..
Video made
March 24, 2011
in the evening after
the Planning Meeting
Amy Lint, Malaki Obado, and me
ORGANIC INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP SHINES
WALT ROBB, WHOLE FOODS MARKET CEO WITH
ANDREW KIMBRELL
WALT ROBB AND ANDREW KIMBRELL
OF THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY
ARE FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO
"ORGANIC UPRISING #expowest"
first uploaded March 24, 2011
This video features numbers of the key organic
stakeholders who sat with the USDA in December
in Washington aiming to represent the organic position.
Participants on stage March 11 and in the video
include Walt Robb, co-ceo Whole Foods Market;
Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farms; George Seimon,
Organic Valley, and Michael funk, UNFI.
NOTE
Michael Funk, who began UNFI the largest distributor
of natural foods and organics in the US, began Mountain People's Warehouse. The organic division, Alberts, delivers truckloads of
organic food to the White House...
Michael started the Non GMO project,
highly supported by Organic Stakeholders.
He was one of the panelists on March 11.
Video to come.
Turn Your Beat with nature around.
Grow an organic beet in a pot,
surrounded by organic alfalfa seedings,
to shift your life toward being once again part of
Nature's Organic Technology.
Now is the time for your Organic Uprising!
Be one with the beet.
THIS VIDEO
WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF ORGANIC UPRISING
Made February 5 at the Drumbeat San Diego event!
Music by Riki Newell, "The Cleansing"
from CD "Translation."
scr!pt CONCEPT FOR
HOLLYWOOD ANIMATION
Its a cartoon!
LEAD INTROS
TO KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT
Malaki Obado, who heads the Aquponics IRC Project,
one of the sites for the 2011 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
has a dream.
He wants to uplift his tribe and his village.
He lives in a small home not far from City Heights,
but his real home is a city name Bango.
There the Old Roots go deep to Africa and
his homeland Kenya. His village is the place
where Barack Obama's father was born.
PHOTO OF BARACK OBAMA's HOME
IN MALAKI's VILLAGE IN KENYA
9:58 pm
March 23, 2011
TO BE ADDED...
ART GIFTS FROM THE BEET KEEPERS, RETURN!
JOB's PRAYER
A LOVE LETTER TO JOE THE FARMER
AN OFFICIAL EARTHQUAKE CONCELLATION NOTICE
JOB'S PRAYER
FIND...
PHOTOS FROM THE 2010
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE CONFERENCE
PHOTOS FROM THE 2010 MICHELLE OBAMA EVENT
AND BEET KEEPER VIDEOS
THE SPEAK OUT WILL BE SPONSORED BY
THE ORGANIC UPRISING CAMPAIGN
AND ITS BEET KEEPER, RETURN SPONSORS
Kelly Shea, White Wave...
Their Birthday Party!!!
Video to be made...
STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE
BioSmart Packaging is out to
End Styrofoam misuse with a little help
from a talking beet plant...
Obama Sr. was born in Rachuonyo District[1] on the shores of Lake Victoria just outside Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, at the time a colony of the British Empire. He was raised in the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province.[12] His family are members of the Luo ethnic group.
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