Neighborhood Meetings, Events & Calls to Action

posted by adrianav, on September 15, 2009

The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.

Thursday, October 29th City Council Candidates Debate on Food Issues. Click here for more information.

On Wednesday October 14 the Council of Neighborhood Groups held its inaugural meeting! You can read all about it by downloading the minutes. brooklyn-food-coalition-neighborhood-council-meeting-10

Here is the BFC structure: bfc-structure-as-of-9_092.

CALL TO ACTION

Let’s make sure food justice is part of the upcoming election, so please meet with your City Council members/candidates and ask whether they support a just food policy in the City! The Brooklyn Food Coalition’s Policy Group has suggested a few specific questions you can ask to pin them down on their support, or you may wish to develop your own. Questions for City Council Members

Along those same lines, the Kensington/Windsor Terrace neighborhood group is asking all other neighborhood groups to co-sponsor a proposed NYC executive order relating to food justice. Executive Order

NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS

After an incredibly successful and exciting Brooklyn Food Conference we are morphing into a grassroots-based Brooklyn Food Coalition. So far 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods (and hopefully many more) are creating local, neighborhood-based groups that are choosing 1 or more projects to work on to improve the food situation in their communities. Each neighborhood will send 2 reps to a Council of Neighborhood Groups so we can share strategies, projects and campaigns across the Borough.

If you are interested in starting your own Neighborhood Group please contact Erica Lonesome: erica (dot) brooklynfoodconference (at) gmail.com. If you would like to be put on our mailing list please e-mail us at info@brooklynfoodconference.org.

(last updated 10-12-09)

SUNSET PARK
Community meeting
Monday October 19th 6:30 p.m.
Center for Family Life, 443 39th Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn,
11232 (between 4th Ave and 5th Ave)
Contact: Nancy Romer nancyromer (at) gmail.com, ejustice (at) urpose.org, arunaguiar (at) gmail.com

FLATBUSH
Community meeting
Wednesday, October 21rd 7:00 p.m.
301 Roosevelt Hall, Brooklyn College
Bedford Avenue between Campus Rd. & Avenue I
Contact: anne (at) sustainableflatbush.org; pieranna (at) aol.com

BAY RIDGE
Fixing School Food
Tuesday, October 27th
PS 102
211 72nd Street (72nd Street & Ridge Boulevard)
Brooklyn, NY 11209
Contact: James Dedousis, Bay Ridge Food Coop, 347.274.8172
Professor Poppendieck will discuss the issues we face while feeding our children in school, such as how to meet federal nutritional requirements while trying to provide healthy school meals, and how to increase federal funding to the school meal program.
The presentation will offer informative details on how schools and parents can take actions to advocate healthy school foods in the renewal of the Federal School Nutritional Act in 2010.

FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL

FORT GREENE FOOD CONFERENCE!!!
Saturday October 24th
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
P.S. 67 Charles A. Dorsey School
51 Edwards Street (btw Myrtle and Park)
Contact: Alfred Chiodo, AChiodo (at) council.nyc.gov
Office of City Councilwoman Letitia James 718 260 9191
Much more information about this exciting event in the weeks to come!

GREENPOINT
Community meeting
Last meeting Thursday, September 24th 7:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Messiah
129 Russell Street (btw. Nassau and Driggs)
Contact: Maggie Dickenson mdickinson (at) gc.cuny.edu

BED STUY
Last meetingThursday, October 1st
Sucre Café
520 Dekalb @ Bedford
8:00 pm
Contact: Erica Lonesome erica.brooklynfoodconference (at) gmail.com
Please contact Erica for more information about this meeting

Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill Community Meeting
Last meeting Thursday, Oct. 8, 6:30 pm
Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Board Room
85 South Oxford Street @ Lafayette Avenue
contact Regina Ginyard, reason9776 (at) yahoo.com

KENSINGTON/WINDSOR TERRACE
Last community meeting was Saturday, September 12th
Please contact David Buckel to join the e-mail list: brooklynfoodjustice (at) gmail.com

PARK SLOPE
Last meeting Tuesday, October 6
7:00 p.m. Meeting
445 6th Street (btw. 6th and 7th Aves) upstairs
Contact: Jeff Heehs, jhbklyn (at) yahoo.com or Pauletter Graf, paulette.graf (at) gmail.com

PROSPECT HEIGHTS/CROWN HEIGHTS
Last meeting was Wednesday, September 16th 7:30 p.m.
Contact: Erica Lonesome erica.brooklynfoodconference (at) gmail.com

BROWNSVILLE
Last meetingTuesday, October 6th 6:00 p.m.
Brownsville Public Library
61 Glenmore Avenue (at Watkins Street)
Contact: Erica Lonesome erica.brooklynfoodconference (at) gmail.com

We are working to transform the food system to one that has health, sustainability and social justice for food workers and consumers. This is a mass movement and we need to give it deeper grassroots. We honor the many effective and visionary non-profits that have defined the movement and we hope to join them by recruiting more and more people to the ranks of the Food Democracy movement! Health, sustainable food for all! Control over the food system by those who produce and consume the food–that’s us!