http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/343/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/417 <p>Brooklyn Rescue Mission Inc. is a community-based organization in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn that develops creative solutions to food justice, community health and the economic challenges our community endures on a daily basis.</p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/417#comment 40.681447 -73.926762 Brooklyn Ch. 10. Food Sovereignty new york United States Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:59:57 -0600 Raj 417 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/285 <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day">International women's day</a> commemorates, among other things, the 1911 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire">Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire</a> in New York. Same town, six years later, women were on the barricades again. America's support in the first world war extended to selling food to Europe. This drove up prices. Women organised. Unable to use traditional democratic channels (the nineteenth amendment wasn't passed until 1920), they used street democracy. One protester, at an East Side Jewish Women's League protest put it like this: "with $14 a week we used to just make a living. With prices as they are now, we could not even live on $2 a day. We would just exist." It's a sentiment that would be all too familiar to women <a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/03/07/the-growing-food-cost-crisis.html">surviving today's price rises</a>.<span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/285"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/285#comment Ch. 10. Food Sovereignty gender new york Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:17:02 -0700 Raj 285 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal