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MARCH 27th – FAIR FOOD SCREENING & PANEL at California State RailRoad Museum

Join CIRS and The California State Railroad Museum

In celebration of Cesar Chavez Day

For a FREE day at the museum

And a panel discussion about

fair food in the Sacramento region

March 27, 2010 at 2:00 pm

125 “I” Street

Sacramento, CA

95814

(916) 445-6645

Featured speakers will include

photographer Rick Nahmias

Creative Director of Fair Food: Field to Table

Whose photographic exhibition

“The Migrant Project” is currently on display at the museum

The multi-media presentation Fair Food: Field to Table will be shown

Followed by a Sacramento area panel including:

Noe Hernandez, Zocalo Restaurant

Paul Cultrera, Sacramento Natural Foods Coop

Paul Muller, Full Belly Farm

Seating available for first 130 people

THE MIGRANT PROJECT: Contemporary California Farm Workers – now in SACRAMENTO, CA

Rick Nahmias’ (co-creator of Fair Food: Field to Table) photo and bilingual text exhibit exploring the human cost of feeding America as seen through the faces and stories of California’s agricultural workforce is on display at The California State Railroad Museum March 3-June 25, 2010. There will be a FREE DAY on Saturday March 27th which is open to the public.

At 11am on the 27th Rick will give a talk on the creative journey of putting this exhibit and companion book together and at 2pm he will introduce a screening of the FAIR FOOD: FIELD TO TABLE short documentary which will be followed by an exciting panel of local Sacramento farm workers, restaurant owners, farmers and others involved with food justice. (Formal press release to follow)

For more info on the engagement: http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/whats-new/photo-documentary-exhibit-the-migrant-project-contemporary-california-farm-workers

FARM WORKER JUSTICE: SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE WINETASTING – DEC 2nd, 8:30pm WASHINGTON, DC

http://www.farmworkerjustice.org/

You want vigorous effective advocacy for agricultural workers, and you know that Farmworker Justice’s work on labor, immigration, health and pesticides delivers the goods for farmworkers. Your support makes their work possible. Become a sponsor of our annual Socially Responsible Wine Tasting in Washington DC. Join the growing list of sponsors by visiting their website’s special events page to make an online donation, or send a check. They look forward to seeng you on Wednesday, December 2, at 6 pm to 8:30 pm, at the AFL-CIO.

They’ll taste wine from vineyards that treat farmworkers decently and where they have a voice, and They’ll also honor James B. Leonard and Jack Gallon, two labor attorneys who have volunteered their considerable skills for the cause of farmworker justice. Join their list of sponsors, or buy an individual ticket for $90.

NPR REPORT ON FLORIDA FARM WORKERS BEING KEPT AS SLAVES Nov 19, 2009

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120576412#commentBlock

“The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers”