"Power, People, Poultry at UNC-Chapel Hill"

This promises to be an interesting event.

From: local-foods-action-plan-owner@lists.ncsu.edu [mailto:local-foods-action-plan-owner@lists.ncsu.edu] On Behalf Of Alena Steen
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:31 AM
To: local-foods-action-plan@lists.ncsu.edu
Subject: [local-foods-action-plan] Power, People, Poultry at UNC-Chapel Hill

Dear friends--

All are welcome--please circulate widely!!

Please join FLO Food (Fair. Local. Organic.) and Alianza for Power, People, Poultry!

What: Free community dinner and speaker panel exploring the human and environmental costs of industrial poultry in North Carolina in conjunction with Farmworker Awareness Week.
When: Tuesday, March 31 at 5:30 pm
Where: The quad in front of Manning Hall at UNC.

Dinner will begin at 5:30, featuring local chicken from Pine Knot Farm and vegetarian options including collard greens, black-eyed peas, and corn bread.

A panel of speakers including labor organizers, researchers, and small farmers will share their experiences working with the low-wage laborers of industrial poultry, and the small farms that provide an alternative, within North Carolina. Speakers include:

Francisco Risso, director of the Western NC Workers Center and organizer for low-wage laborer rights.

Juan Montes, also of the Workers Center, labor organizer and former poultry worker.

Dr. Hester Lipscomb, associate professor of occupational and environmental medicine at Duke University. Dr. Lipscomb's research involves African-American women workers in poultry factories in eastern NC.

Becky Ceartas of Rural Advancement Foundation International. Her work with the Contract Agriculture Reform program educates poultry farmers about industrial poultry contracts, and develops and promotes farmer-controlled cooperatives.

Stanley Hughes of Pine Knot Farms in Hillsborough, NC who grows organic produce and the pasture-raised chickens we'll eat for dinner.

If you would like to explore these issues in greater detail, FLO is screening the documentary, "Mississippi Chicken" at 7:30 pm on Monday March 30 in Hamilton Hall 100.

In solidarity,

FLO Food
Fair. Local. Organic.
http://studentorgs.unc.edu/flo/

**Flyer attached**

Sponsored by Campus Health Services, Foster's Market, The Q Shack, Slow Food Triangle, Student Action with Farmworkers, UNC's Office of Sustainability, and UNITAS.