Blog: Tim Galarneau
Food & Freedom Rider Reflections from Adrien Salazar
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Sep 23, 2011
Adrien published a wordpress blog on his reflections and experiences on the summer food and freedom ride that folks should check out! Here is the link: http://groundtheory.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/food-and-freedom/
Read More >>First Day of Food & Freedom Ride
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Aug 12, 2011
The first day of Live Real's Food & Freedom Rides commences with a blessing at Hopewell Community Church (where Virginia Ward attends) and a community meeting at the Civil Rights Institute. Hear more from Roy from WHY Hunger and East New York Farms.....
Read More >>Food & Freedom Rider, Courtney Oats
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Aug 12, 2011
The 2011 Food & Freedom Rides (http://liverealnow.weebly.com/) led by Live Real arrived in Eupora, Mississippi earlier this week. The first Freedom Ride this summer and second stop has set the stage for an injustice. One of 12 Live Real Fellows, Courtney Oats (the great niece of the late Fannie Lou Hamer), is a resident of Europa and was...
Read More >>Fair Food committees popping up on campuses, now!
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Apr 11, 2011
The video above is one of two produced by students at the University of Florida in Gainesville following their participation in the big march on Publix in Tampa at the culmination of the Do the Right Thing Tour. The same UF students also moved their student government to pass a formal resolution calling on Publix to work with the CIW back in...
Read More >>Farmworkers and there future as elders in the community (respect for our elders?)
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Apr 11, 2011
Today, the AARP has helped direct attention to yet another tile in the mosaic, one usually hidden deep in the shadows: the plight of the "retired" farmworker, workers who have given their youth and their health to the fields, but with age and broken bodies can no longer work at the pace necessary to be hired for the harvest. Here is the web link...
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