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Sustainable Agriculture Louisville Schedule, Calendar, Events
This page contains a list of scheduled Sustainable Agriculture Louisville and community events, and key SAL milestones and deliverables, such as our current work on developing the SAL Platform.
2002: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2003: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
This week April 21 - 27
- Monday, April 22, 2002 10:00 AM Earth Day
- Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:00 AMPACE Grant on Fiscal Court Docket
- Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:30 pm Sustainable Agriculture Louisville April Meeting
- Thursday, April 25 - Saturday, April 27, 2002The Future of Agrarianism Conference
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Next week April 28 - May 4
- Thursday, May 2, 3 - 4pm Boycott Taco Bell!!
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Monday, April 22, 2002 10:00 AM
On Earth Day, April 22, the Sierra Club will hold a press conference in the
Captol Rotunda at 10 a.m. (EDT) to announce a law suit against Tyson Foods
and four growers in Western Kentucky over ammonia emissions. This will also
be an opportunity to support sustainable farming. Speakers include attorney
Phillip Sheppherd and farmer/author Wendell Berry. We hope you can be there to support the Sierra Club and our work to help family farmers and to
protect the air, water, and soil of Kentucky. Please pass on the word to
anyone you think might be able to attend. We would like those groups with
whom we work on environmental and farming issues to be present for this
Earth Day press conference. By: Aloma Dew, Associate Regional Representative for the Sierra Club in Kentucky.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:00 AM
The PACE grant is on the docket to be approved by Fiscal Court at the Jefferson County Courthouse. Billy Ray Smith is supposed to be there for the signing of the contract. All are welcome to come!
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:00 am
Sustainable Agriculture Louisville April Meeting
WHERE: Main Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library in the Board Room, on the Mezzanine Level (it's a glassed in room in the newer wing, overlooks the first floor)
Approximate agenda:
Intern Selection Committee meeting at 6:30
7:00-8:00 - meeting with Cameron Lawrence on media tips and strategies
8:00 - SAL business committee will recommend candidate for EPA internship
-discussion of SAL Platform
Also, Lita Goodrich and Rida Clayton, owners of Eve's Sweet Revenge (on
Eastern Parkway, in the Germantown neighborhood--if you haven't been, GO!), will be attending the business portion of SAL's meeting. I'd like to
request that we place them on SAL's agenda prior to platform discussion.
They're both residents of Portland and would like to discuss possibilities
of a farmers' market in Portland--say they have the perfect location and
would like to start a petition to get one started and/or the Rowan Street
location moved.
Thursday, April 25 - Saturday, April 27, 2002
Tentative Program Agenda
Note: Presentation times are subject to change
Thursday
6:00 p.m.
Welcome & Announcements
6:15 p.m.
Fred Kirschenmann (Iowa State University) "Where are We Now"
8:00 p.m.
Gene Logsdon & Maurice Telleen "Old and New Agrarianism"
Friday
8:30 a.m.
Brian Donahue (Brandeis University) "Agrarianism in the
Suburbs"
10:30 a.m.
Eric T. Freyfogle (University of Illinois) "Land Ownership and
Land-Use Planning"
Noon
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Karen Armstrong Cummings, Mary Berry Smith, Steve Smith
(Commodity Growers Association) "The View From the Local"
4:00 p.m.
Susan Witt (E. F. Schumacher Society) "The Community Land
Trust"
5:30 p.m.
Dinner on your own
7:30 p.m.
Wendell Berry "Why Agrarianism Matters"
9:30 p.m.
Reception
Saturday
8:30 a.m.
Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) Agrarianism: Mere Nostalgia
or Practical Necessity?
10:30 a.m.
Mark Ritchie (Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy) "Economics
as if Agrarianism Mattered"
Noon
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
David Kline An Amish View
4:00 p.m.
Hank Graddy, John Berry "The Legal & Legislative Front"
5:30 p.m.
Dinner on your own
7:30 p.m.
Dr Vandana Shiva "A View from India" More Info
Thursday, May 2, 3 - 4pm
Boycott Taco Bell!!
Farmworkers from the tomato fields of Immokalee, FL, are asking you to drop
your chalupa and join their effort to obtain dignity, and a fair wage for
the hard work that they do.
Join us for another informational picket line:
1st and Broadway Taco Bell.
**this is derby parade day, there will be lots of people to reach!**
More information:
Kentucky Jobs With Justice
email: [email protected]
May 16th
Boycott Taco Bell!! Campaign
Action at the Tricon Shareholders meeting.
Farmworkers from the tomato fields of Immokalee, FL, are asking you to drop your chalupa and join their effort to obtain dignity, and a fair wage for
the hard work that they do.
For more information, visit http://www.ciw-online.org
May 31 - June 14, 2002
Arts, Media, Activism, & Social Change Program
at the Institute for Social Ecology
May 31 - June 14, 2002
3 credits
Please note: The Institute for Social Ecology also has substantial programs in sustainable agriculture, communities and other areas of interest to SAL members. Please visit their website for additional information.
This fourteen-day program is intended for artists, activists, and media
makers who wish to gain practical experience with designing and composing art and media projects that are informed by their politics in content, form,
and practice. Over the course of the program, students will receive
hands-on experience and exposure to a wide array of activist art and media,
including puppetry, street theater, installation art, songwriting, cartooning,
culture jamming, audio and video production, radio production, and web-based media and art.
This program will function as an arts and media laboratory where students
will brainstorm, collaborate, and develop projects and proposals based on
their own political visions. Central to this program is a lecture series
introducing key theoretical concepts in social ecology, providing a
framework for students to identify and promote their political visions.
Participants will discuss the role of the artist as animator, someone who
facilitates the expression of community stories and helps to build bridges
between polarized groups; and explore the challenges and benefits of
long-term community cultural work that lays the groundwork for developing
true grassroots movements.
The program will critically examine the nature of media in our society as
well as various theories of media in order to develop new notions of form,
process, function, and content in media projects. Students will look at the
differences between alternative and revolutionary media in detail,
specifically focusing on issues such as objectivity, editorial control,
democracy, and the shaping of culture, power, and information by media.
Students will also explore historical and theoretical perspectives on the
intersection of art, media, and politics, and discuss different strategies
for engaging diverse communities through political art and media.
Throughout the program, participants will choose between workshops on different media and art topics, while concentrating on their particular area of interest.
The aim of Arts, Media, Activism, and Social Change is to provide
participants with the practical and conceptual skills, along with a
theoretical perspective, to make activist art and media that is at once
accessible, transformative, and revolutionary.
Facilitated by Beverly Naidus, Chaia Heller, Arthur Foelsche, Brooke Lehman
Guest Presenters include: Seth Tobacman, David Rovics, Puppets on Bikes,
Members of Bread and Puppet, Play Back Theater NYC, and more...
Institute for Social Ecology
Popular Education for a Free Society
www.social-ecology.org
1118 Maple Hill Road Plainfield, VT, 05667 USA
(802) 454-8493
For specific questions on the content of the program contact Brooke (917)
807-3877 or [email protected]
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January 23-26, 2003
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
We are very excited to announce that the next Southern SAWG
Conference will be held in Mobile, Alabama
at the Adams Mark Hotel, overlooking Mobile Bay!
Offering a longer program this year, the conference will begin first
thing Friday morning and close at noon on Sunday. There will be
optional field trips Thursday (likely full day and half day) as well as
on Sunday afternoon.
In addition to the usual program offerings, we are also planning a
beginning farmer program and a wider variety of field trips this year.
Watch for details this fall in our newsletter and on our website:
http://www.attra.org/ssawg
Plan to join us at the coast this January. And spread the word!
Because they are hosting a national meeting in the fall, the Southern
SARE PDP will not hold their annual Workshop this January.
Q1 -- SAL Platform Schedule
Status and Schedule: TBD
Project Completion and Milestones: TBD. Summary report .
Q2 -- Farmers Market Projects
Status and Schedule: TBD.
Project Completion and Milestones: TBD. Summary report .
Q3 -- Community Gardens Project
Status and Schedule
Project Completion and Milestones: TBD. Summary report .
Q4 -- TBA
Status and Schedule
Project Completion and Milestones: TBD. Summary report .
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