Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 11am-12:30pm | Farm Bill Webinar with HEAL Food Alliance
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 11am-12:30pm | Farm Bill Webinar with HEAL Food Alliance
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 11am-12:30pm
Free Virtual Session on Zoom
The Farm Bill is some of the most powerful federal legislation shaping the United States’ food and farm system. It impacts all of us living here, as well as communities around the world.
The next Farm Bill will be voted on in late 2023 or 2024, but discussions about what it should include have been long underway. Traditionally, the Farm Bill has been shaped by powerful players, primarily big farming corporations. A Farm Bill shaped by big corporations leads to a Farm Bill that benefits big corporations.
For this next Farm Bill, HEAL Food Alliance and its members and partners—including the San Diego Food System Alliance—want to lift up the needs and voices of our communities. To do so, we need to grow a movement of everyday people–farmers, workers, teachers, healthcare workers, consumers—to speak up. If you are interested in demanding a Farm Bill that puts people over corporations, we invite you to join us.
Join this session to hear about HEAL’s policy recommendations for the 2023 Farm Bill, updates on their advocacy efforts, news from Farm Bill discussions, how to take action and write to your Congress members, and more.
While this workshop is free, you must register to receive the Zoom link.
*Artwork is an excerpt from the zine “Food, Land, and Us,” illustrated by by Zeke Peña and co-written by Rubi Orozco Santos and V. Quevedo of La Semilla Food Center. Used with permission from the creators.
About HEAL Food Alliance
The HEAL Food Alliance was born out of the knowledge that no single individual, organization, or sector can transform systems in isolation. We believe that true transformation requires diverse skills, roles, and resources— and, it requires organizing together for real change.
After an extensive landscape assessment and series of strategy conversations led by HEAL’s founding director, the alliance was born, anchored by the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, Real Food Generation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. These anchor organizations engaged leaders with experience and expertise in co-crafting the 10-plank “Platform for Real Food”, and in 2017 HEAL launched publicly with this platform as our strategic compass.
Today, HEAL is a national multi-sector, multi-racial coalition of 55 organizations. We are led by our members, who represent over 2 million rural and urban farmers, ranchers, fishers, farm and food chain workers, indigenous groups, scientists, public health advocates, policy experts, community organizers, and activists. Together, these groups are building a movement to transform our food and farm systems from the current extractive economic model towards community control, care for the land, local economies, meaningful labor, and healthful communities nationwide, while supporting the sovereignty of all living beings.