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The Myth of Choice and the Taste of Democracy:
Building a Local Food Economy
November 20-21, 2009
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Featured presenter and facilitator:
Frances Moore Lappé, is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 16 books. Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint long before the term was coined [JM Hirsh, Associated Press]. Read more about Lappé on her web site - www.smallplanet.org. |
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In her most recent book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Lappé distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting style. Getting a Grip is a rare “aha” book that flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirms readers’ basic sanity - their intuition that it is possible to stop grasping at straws and to grasp instead the real roots of today’s crises, from hunger and poverty to climate change and terrorism. Getting a Grip leaves readers feeling liberated and courageous.
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Listen as Lappé reflects on her book, Getting A Grip:
| WHEN: |
Friday, November 20, 7-9pm and
Saturday, November 21, 9am to 4pm
[Friday, 5-6:30pm - Optional movie showing of "Food, Inc." with soup and bread $5.00.] |
| WHERE: |
This conference will be held at the Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105. Click here for driving directions. |
| COST: |
$40; $20 for students (lunch purchased on-site for $5 featuring local foods!)
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