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DESCRIPTION:A Global Food Initiative Starts at Home --\nBerkeley students to rally at 
 the Regents Meeting\n\nSan Francisco, CA - This Wednesday at 9am, UC 
 Berkeley students, alumni, and community members plan to rally at the 
 Regents Meeting in San Francisco. Students will bring in fresh vegetables 
 from the Gill Tract farm to congratulate UC President Napolitano on her new 
 “Global Food Initiative” and remind her to walk her talk- by halting 
 the development of the Gill Tract farm.\n \nThe proposed commercial 
 development on the Gill Tract farm has faced community resistance for over 
 17 years, including a high-profile encampment by Occupy the Farm in 2012. 
 This protest won back 10 acres of the land for education, research and 
 community use. However, the UC still plans to develop the remaining 10 
 acres of the Gill Tract, and the proposal includes a controversial big box 
 grocery store known for union busting and green washing, while sourcing 
 from unsustainable and unjust conventional farms.\n \nStudents for Engaged 
 and Active Learning (SEAL) recently put together a petition that already 
 has over 1,500 signatures, re-launching the fight against the proposed 
 development. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/a-food-initiative-on\n \nAt 
 this Regents Meeting, students and community supporters will be 
 highlighting the UC’s hypocrisy, and calling on them to “Walk Your 
 Talk!”\n \nVanessa Raditz, Master of Public Health Candidate: “The UC 
 says that it wants to tackle food insecurity across the globe, while their 
 actions are negatively impacting their own local community. The current 
 proposed development will bring more traffic and air pollution, hurt 
 locally owned businesses, and destroy the chance for this space to be a 
 cutting edge educational and research project.”\n \nEffie Rawlings, UC 
 Berkeley Alum, B.A. in Social Welfare: “Paving over local farmland for a 
 big box store is a sad example of everything wrong with our food system. 
 The Gill Tract is a unique opportunity for the UC to show the world how to 
 do food right.”\n \nStudents are saying that if the UC wants to have a 
 “Global Food Initiative”, they need to start with a local food 
 initiative, by looking at their very own actions at home.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/15/18758685.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley students to rally at the Regents Meeting for halt to development on Gill Tract
LOCATION:Regents Meeting in San Francisco\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/15/18758685.php
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