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Global Day of Action to Occupy our Food Supply on February 27th

• A powerful alliance of sustainable agriculture advocates and food justice networks, including over 60 Occupy Wall Street groups as well as environmental and corporate accountability organizations are joining together with a theme of creating local solutions and resisting Big Ag and its destructive practices of placing profits over people and the planet.
• Will you join us? Here are a couple of ways:
• 1. If you are a blogger, consider amplifying this story by spreading the word and saving the date to cover these issues as part of a coordinated effort to set the blogosphere abuzz with a conversation about the urgent need to end corporate exploitation of our food systems.
• Writers and thought leaders including Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Michael Ableman, Robert Kenner and Anna Lappe will be adding their voices in support of a wide-ranging series of actions across the US and the globe.
• 2. Whether you’re an individual or represent an organization, you can organize your own event for the Day of Action. Planned activities so far range from reclaiming unused bank-owned lots to create community gardens; identifying GMO and destructive products in grocery stores with stickers; protesting at Cargill-owned hedge fund offices; doing seed exchanges in front of stock exchanges; supporting community alliances to drive away WalMart and dangerous, unethical food distributors; and fighting back against Monsanto’s revolving door into the FDA via Obama.
• You can learn more and see an evolving map of actions by visiting www.occupyourfoodsupply.org.
• 3. If you are interested in helping to spread the word about the day of action on social media, we will be using the Twitter hashtags #F27 and #occupyourfoodsupply. The social media guide can be found here:
• http: //understory.ran.org/2012/02/14/occupy-our-food-supply-f27-social-media-guide/