Speak out to oppose the corporatization of the UN Food Summit on Thursday, September 23rd
Published on September, 41 2021
By the Women, Money & Democracy Committee and the Earth Democracy Committee.
September 2021
The UN Food Systems Summit (UN-FSS) event scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 23rd has been in the works for over a year, and presents itself (falsely) as ‘the peoples food summit’. It’s anything but. It’s wholly owned by Big Ag and corporate profiteers and polluters, and it deliberately excludes and silences the real people who are closest to the crops and the food production: small family farmers and farmworkers.
The Summit is wholly owned by Big Ag and corporate profiteers and polluters, and it deliberately excludes and silences the real people who are closest to the crops and the food production: small family farmers and farmworkers. See article here for more background. And this website: https://www.foodsystems4people.org/resources-2/. Here’s a short video about this: https://youtu.be/xO4f-kQePBQ
There’s a good reason that they did not want to announce the final date until very late August. They want to quell expected opposition to the profiteers that are calling the shots. By waiting to announce a date they make it challenging to mount a counter summit protest in NYC on the date of the actual Summit, Thursday, September 23rd.
That’s not stopping our allies in the Food Sovereignty Alliance (FSA). They are planning for VIRTUAL OPPOSITION and PROTEST through social media and web content that holds the UN program accountable. They’re asking WILPF US members to step up and join the online protest. Via Campesina and other allies that form the Food Sovereignty Alliance are asking WILPF US members to help get the word out about this false messaging from the UN, which is deliberately silencing small family farmers and farmworkers at the Food Summit.
Look for Facebook memes to share, tweets to tweet, and letters to the editor to send, all in the works.
Here are Hashtags to use when posting about this:
#FoodSystems4People, #FoodSystems4All, #NotInOurNames, #NoEnNuestroNombre, #UNFSS2021
More content and social media materials will be available in the next week or so, in plenty of time for you to use them to educate the public and alert them to this corporate takeover of the UN’s Food Systems Summit. For more information, contact Marybeth Gardam at mbgardam@gmail.com.
