| Wednesday, 13 Jun | ||
| 7:30 pm |
In June Progressive Cinema will screen two films focussing on food sovereignty, namely
Food Fight
and
La Via Campesina in Movement: Food Sovereignty Now!
at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 13th June,
at the Armidale Club, 91 Beardy Street.
Turntables Restaurant will be open for dinner from 6pm.
Food sovereignty prioritises local food production and consumption, gives a country the right to protect its local producers from cheap imports and to control production and ensures that the rights to use and manage lands, territories, water, seeds, livestock and biodiversity are in the hands of those who produce food and not of the corporate sector.
Jo Leoni, Convener of the Community Garden Action Group of Sustainable Living Armidale, will be present to talk about local initiatives towards food sovereignty and take part in the discussion after the screening.
Food Fight documents the ongoing struggle by former workers in the Heinz factory at Girgarre, a small town in Victoria. After Heinz decided to close the factory, resulting in the loss of 146 jobs, the workers formed the Goulburn Valley Food Co-operative. When Heinz refused to come to the table regarding the sale of the existing factory, the Co-op found a site in Kyabram, a town nearby, where it intends to open a community-run factory which will not only provide jobs but also a market for the produce grown in the area and formerly bought by Heinz. The Co-operative was officially launched on 16th May 2012 and is seeking members Australia wide, with a view to supporting the Australian food industry.
La Via Campesina in Movement: Food Sovereignty Now! is a film about and made by Via Campesina, a world-wide peasant movement which brings together a large number of peasant, indigenous and agricultural workers’ organisations from 70 countries, representing in all 200 million small farmers. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and nature. Since 1993 the movement has struggled for food sovereignty. It is an inspiring grassroots mass movement effecting change on the ground. For more information about Via Campesina go to
The event will be free, however donations to support the Armidale Club are encouraged.
For more information about the screening call Bea Bleile on {mobile prefix oh four}58 752 680.
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