On May 2nd, The Brooklyn Food Conference, sponsored by Brooklyn’s Bounty, the Caribbean Women’s Health Association, and the Park Slope Food Coop, is coming to PS 321 and John Jay High School.

The stated goals of the conference are:

1. Bring Brooklyn together to demand and participate in creating a vital, healthy and just food system available to everyone.
2. Create a Brooklyn legislative food democracy agenda and constituent base.
3. Organize neighborhood meetings of elected officials—congressional
   reps, state legislators, city council members—to press for a food
   democracy agenda.
4. Influence public policy by educating elected officials and showing them the depth and diversity of public interest.
5. Create a useful, cross-referenced directory of attendees.
6. Help partner organizations grow their constituencies by offering attendees avenues for action.

Already, there are a lot of fun events planned like a New Orleans-style parade featuring massive
puppets! Workshops, food demos, and kids’
activities and food and lots of it: lunch, dinner, and a dance. The conference will
be FREE to all participants.

There will also be well-known activists and writers like Dan Barber, executive chef and owner of Blue Hill Restaurant, Anna Lappé,  author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Raj Patel author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and LaDonna Redmond, head of the Institute of Community Resource Development in Chicago.

Partners
include over 50 organizations, including Just Food, CAMBA, Bed-Stuy
Campaign Against Hunger, Center for the Urban Environment, Children’s
Aid Society, Garden of Union, Grassroots Netroots Alliance, New York
Coalition Against Hunger, East New York Farms, Restaurant Opportunity
Center, United Food and Commercial Workers