Author: CFGN

Audacious Veg Welcomes Refugees

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CFGN member ‘Audacious Veg’ is running a crowd funder which you can find out more and support through this link, and also some info below

Welcome a refugee to the UK this Christmas with a gift of a weekly bus pass

It only costs £21 pounds to change a refugee’s life with a seven-day bus pass – donate today!

Here at Audacious Veg, we wanted to find a way to make newly-arrived refugees feel welcome in London, and make their lives a tiny bit easier. We asked ourselves- “how can a tiny food growing project make a big difference to people seeking asylum in the UK?”

Refugees seeking to claim asylum in the UK are not legally allowed to work, and often struggle to survive on less than £5 a day. This makes London’s high transport costs unaffordable, leaving many refugees isolated and unable to access support services. You can help change this.

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CFGN Autumn Gathering / 15.11.15 / May Project Gardens

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Location: May Project Gardens

158 Middleton Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 6RW, (Directions + public transport info here)

Date: Sunday 15th November 2015

Time: 11.30am-5pm

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For more information/questions email cfgn@riseup.net

www.cfgn.org.uk

www.mayproject.org

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Mipim property fair only benefits the rich – Collective statement

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This Wednesday the Mipim property fair returns to London, celebrating a housing system that puts an obsession with profit over people’s right to a decent home. By promoting this unsustainable approach to housing and land use, Mipim benefits the global rich whilst destroying our communities. Mipim brings global property development companies together with local authorities and other “partners wanting to close deals”, often selling public land and assets. Barnet council gave the West Hendon estate, worth an estimated £45m, to Barratt for just £5. This approach is being enabled by a government whose policies are exacerbating the housing crisis, as the Tories’ new housing bill shows. We condemn everything that Mipim stands for, and join communities and campaigners to say no to Mipim, yes to housing justice.

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Why Food Sovereignty is also about the Sovereign Soil

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by Mama D – Community Centred Knowledge // @indigenousknow // http://www.symphonyofthesoil.com/

When we, as Earth’s inhabitants, gain a clear understanding of the roots of Food Sovereignty and its role in bringing freedom from systems of food oppression to cultivators of the Global South, we will stand a greater chance of also understanding how well aligned it is with the call for all of humankind to take better care of the fragile skin that adorns the planet: this skin is called the soil.

Food Sovereignty exists as a statement of clearly articulated rights in the face of economic and political and cultural oppression and it militates against the structures – legal, political and economic – that arose out of colonisation, slavery and ‘entrepreneurial’ adventurism in the Global South, chiefly undertaken by men of means from the Global North.

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