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Thanks go out to all who participated in the Food Justice-Food Sovereignty Peoples Movement Assembly! We braved the wind and rain, and rumors that the canopy village had been abandoned, and still drew well over 100 people from across the US to this assembly, representing dozens of organizations and community initiatives. The US Food Crisis Working Group, in the process of transforming itself as it grows into the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, is grateful for the contributions of so many who are making it possible for us to act as a handfull of seed that can reproduce itself and adapt to the changing challenges and opportunities of this moment, becoming something more like an ecosystem that can become a powerful and sustainable food sovereignty movement.
As our Muskogee brother so eloquently said, food sovereignty is as much about how humans can re-establish the proper relationship of respect and reverence for the everlasting forces of nature represented in our corner of the cosmos by sun, earth, water, wind, and all the peoples who inhabit this Mother Earth, the tree and vegetation people, the creeping creature people large and small, the winged people, the scaled and finned people, the four leggeds and two leggeds, in harmony, joy and peace. Those of us who regularly garden or farm know that this is what this movement is all about, right relationship in the four directions and toward the zenith and down into the earth, from which all the other goods flow, equality, abundance and cultural and biological diversity and health.

Peace through Justice and Harmony,

Stephen Bartlett
Agricultural Missions (AMI) and Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville (SAL)
and proud participant in the newborn US Food Sovereignty Alliance