Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems

Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems
The Center for Latin American Studies will host Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First, as he presents "Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems." Holt-Gimenez will address the idea that the balance of forces cannot be changed unless fragmented food movements forge a common platform based on common grounds.

In his preface to his book Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems, Holt-Gimenez says, "Whether it was due to growing pauperization, growing inequality, growing unemployment, or growing precariousness, it’s only normal that people started resisting, protesting, and organizing around the world. Social movements are by and large still on the defensive, facing the offensive of capital to dismantle whatever they had conquered in the previous decades. But even if perfectly legitimate social movements of protest are growing everywhere, they remain extremely fragmented. What is needed is to move beyond fragmentation and beyond a defensive position into building a wide progressive alliance emboldened by the force of a positive alternative."

For more information, please contact Erika Colijn at colijn.2@osu.edu.
Date and time: February 14, 2012
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Area on Campus: Ohio Staters Inc., Traditions Room, Ohio Union
Contact: Center for Latin American Studies
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