{"id":26004,"date":"2017-01-24T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=26004"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:41:52","slug":"foodjustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/foodjustice\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWS symposium focused on food justice issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 24, 2017\u2014<\/strong>Galvanized by fiery keynote speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/laborcenter.berkeley.edu\/author\/saru-jayaraman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saru Jayaraman<\/a>, an audience comprised of more than 200 students, faculty, staff and community members participated in the CSWS symposium \u201dFood First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty\u201d on January 23 at various locales on the UO campus. The mix of events included a morning panel, a noon-time teach-in, a documentary film, and a late afternoon keynote address and book signing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26005\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/26004-2\/teach-in-img_5656\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26005\" class=\" wp-image-26005\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656.jpg 750w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656-560x473.jpg 560w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656-260x219.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teach-in-IMG_5656-160x135.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saru Jayaraman speaks at the teach-in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jayaraman,&nbsp;cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, talked about her research and activism among food service workers, a work force that represents 7 of the 10 lowest paid jobs in the United States. Participants also learned more about organizing among farm workers through morning panelist Ram\u00f3n Ramirez, president of Oregon\u2019s farmworker union Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN).&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Marissa Garcia, executive director of Huerto de la Familia in Eugene, spoke about bringing food security to low-income Latino residents in our community by providing garden spaces.&nbsp;Sarah Cunningham, an anthropology professor at Oregon State University, talked about OSU\u2019s interdisciplinary program Food in Culture and Social Justice, which she coordinates. The symposium was the third presentation in CSWS\u2019s year-long Lorwin Lecture series focused on Women and Work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24, 2017\u2014Galvanized by fiery keynote speaker Saru Jayaraman, an audience comprised of more than 200 students, faculty, staff and community members participated in the CSWS symposium \u201dFood First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty\u201d on January 23 at various locales on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/foodjustice\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,23,597,60,5],"tags":[56,94,600,598,595,158],"class_list":["post-26004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-outreach","category-conferences","category-food-justice","category-lorwin-lecture-series","category-research","tag-csws","tag-food-justice","tag-lorwin-lecture-series","tag-ramon-ramirez","tag-saru-jayaraman","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26018,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26004\/revisions\/26018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}