2/9: Uprooted & Rising Orientation Workshop + Dinner
Sunday, February 9 at 4PM
223A Collective
San Francisco, CA
Uprooted & Rising Orientation Workshop + Dinner
Uprooted & Rising (UNR) San Francisco invites you to our orientation workshop and community dinner on Sunday February 9th, 2020 in SoMa district San Francisco. BART accessible location will be sent to you via your contact info provided on the registration form so please fill it out! >> bit.ly/unr_sfbay. We are also looking for volunteers to flyer this week, act/hold props during a skit, and help cook! Let us know if you are down to volunteer!
Uprooted & Rising is a new movement organizing to end higher education's support for Big Food/white supremacy in the food system, and mobilize our generations energy toward food sovereignty. This movement aims to create a culture shift through public action, digital organizing, and creative storytelling that uplifts and centers the ideas and experiences of those who have been marginalized by corporate control and white supremacy in our food system.
2020 is a battleground for our food system and human rights! Big Food corporations continue to drive the burning of the Amazon. They are actively lobbying for a bill in congress that will privatize the ocean. Black farmers, locked out of institutional markets, continue to lose land and family farms, while farmers in India are facing droughts because of Big Soda. With so much at stake, Uprooted & Rising is working to expose the many ways universities in the U.S. are tied to Big Food corporations. We are here to end Higher Ed's support for Big Food, along with its endorsement of the entrenched ideologies that are destroying our earth and undermining the way of life of Indigenous people globally.
Uprooted & Rising stands in solidarity with Mauna a Wākea because we cannot have food sovereignty without Indigenous self-determination, ancestral knowledge, the protection of our sacred places and precious freshwater sources. We echo Lanakila's demand that the University of California divest its funding of TMT, reinstill that money, and take care of its students!
Our strategy at Uprooted & Rising (UNR) is to polarize the public through campaign escalation that exposes the ties between higher education, Big Food corporations, and white supremacy as we build local UNR branches in different parts of the country that are actively uniting people around a vision for global food sovereignty. We aim to build a strong branch here in the San Francisco Bay Area! Join us!
See you there!!