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👉️️️️️️ Food Sovereignty Study Circle
📅 12/10, 26/10, 9/11, 23/11 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Amaltea, Malmö
🎟️ free but sign up required, see below
Capitalist food production has left us with a planet on fire, farmers without livable working wages, and millions around the world watching food prices sore to levels we can not afford. In this study circle we will attempt to understand how to agriculture system in Sweden has come to be, our fight for food sovereignty, and how the struggle in Sweden fits into a global story of extractavism, exploitation, and resistance in the food system.
The principle text for this will be "Back to Basics - A Step Forward" by Torgny Ostling. Torgny was a farmer and forester in Jämtland, who witnessed the destruction of small scale farming in Sweden in the 90s. He organized with other small scale farmers to resist this destruction. This resistance eventually became NOrdbruk, a Swedish association of peasant farmers fighting for food sovereignty and the Swedish member of La Via Campesina. "Back to Basics - A Step Forward" represents a life time of knowledge in the peasant struggle and serves as a core organizing text for NOrdbruk today.
In addition to the text, there will be small lectures at the beginning of each meeting to give more context to the reading in the books. The lectures will be on: food sovereignty, land grabbing, free trade, and international solidarity.
Sign up with the organizer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRjbsry9x4JCksVgD8G_9Lk_k20UNFYJWPjX2KWAjaUuFlWA/viewform
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