The US Food Sovereignty Alliance held its fourth national assembly in Bellingham, Washington in October. In the statement below, the alliance expresses its solidarity with migrants and movements as they face attacks around the world. At the same time, it puts forward a vision for a different food system.
Coming Clean, a BEAI Fund grantee, surveyed nine communities across the United States for their study Life at the Fenceline. Their report reveals how impoverished communities, especially Black and Latinx ones, have borne the brunt of health hazards from toxic pollution.
Climate change is disrupting our world and our lives. "Conscientious capitalists" assembled in San Francisco in September to offer false solutions. The grassroots answered on the streets with real ones.
Civil Eats spoke to two Organización Boricuá members—Dalma Cartagena and Jesús Vázquez—at last week’s U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance national assembly in Bellingham, Washington, where the group won the Food Sovereignty Prize.
In the early 1980s, famine loomed in Eritrea and Ethiopia, but no one was talking about it. Nor was anyone outside a small circle of activists talking sense about the Middle East. And if they tried, they were hammered. Enter...
Registered for the “Resistance, Resilience and Power” Panel and 35th Anniversary Celebration? Excellent! Below is important information you about transportation and parking, interpretation and other event details. Location: UMass Student Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor University of Massachusetts Boston – 100...
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) honored Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the tenth annual Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony on Lummi and Nooksack land in Coast Salish Territory, in the city now called Bellingham, Washington.
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is delighted to announce Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico are the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize recipients.
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) has released a new report detailing the creation of and history of the USFSA.
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) condemns the Trump Administration's recent trade and agricultural policies. These measures will not return prosperity to rural America.
Thank you for making our 35th Anniversary a huge success! How do you sum up 35 years in a single night? How do you reflect back and look forward in the span of four hours? On Saturday, October 20, Grassroots...
On October 12 – 15, 2018, grassroots organizations, activists, faith-based community, scholars, union members, farmers and fisherfolk, and other food chain workers from around the US and the world will converge on Bellingham, WA, for the IV National Assembly of...
On October 12 – 15, 2018, grassroots organizations, activists, faith-based community, scholars, union members, farmers and fisherfolk, and other food chain workers from around the US and the world will converge on Bellingham, WA, for the IV National Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA).