Chicago, March 6: International Women’s Day, FOOD IS A HUMAN RIGHT

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lwqancq

MARCH: 10 AM. Meet at Federal Building, Adams and Dearborn, Chicago

FORUM: 12 noon 135 S. Lasalle Suite 4300, Chicago

Participants are invited to speak, and the floor will be open for discussion regarding topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement and proposals for action including on the following topics:

• Stop All Cuts To SNAP And Government Food Programs
• Healthy Food Affordable for all – End Food Deserts
• Economic Justice for Food, Agricultural and All Workers, Including $15 Minimum Wage And The Right To Unionize.
• Hold the Food Industry and Agribusiness Accountable for Environmental and Health Impact in the US and Around the world.

*General Comment No. 12 of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has declared “the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement”

For more information call 708 524-6904

Sponsored by Dominican University, Nutrition Science and the Food is a Right Chicago People’s Assembly. Endorsed by Rockford FIST, and Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement. List in formation.