Providing neighborhoods that lack grocery stores or farmers markets equal access to fresh, healthy food is a growing focus of the food justice movement across the country.
Check out this short film from Media that Matters. Click on Film #3. It features the Bay Areas own Peoples Grocery in West Oakland. You may also want to watch the other food and sustainability related films in the collection.
Ok, youve watched the film. Now what can you do? Maybe you can help one of the organizations working for food justice.
Here are a few links:
Oaklands Peoples Grocery
New Yorks bhealthy founded by Bryant Terry author of Grub, Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
The Farm Project in upstate New York
In San Francisco, Hunters Point Family
Food First, with a more International focus
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