Urban Food Policy Forum: Building a Food Movement in New York in the Age of Trump

Urban Food Policy Forum: Building a Food Movement in New York in the Age of Trump May 11, 2017 9:00am-10:30am CUNY Graduate School ofPublic Health and Health Policy 55 West 125th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10027 RSVP A new president and congress have threatened to repeal or weaken many of the accomplishments of the food justice movement won in the last two decades. In the next few years, how can the food movement here in New York City find common ground and common goals with local and national environmental and labor movements, and the movements for immigrant rights, affordable housing and health care reform? What are the specific opportunities in New York City and State for developing common agendas across these movements to resist Trump initiatives that harm health? Mark Bittman, food writer and former columnist for the New York Times will moderate a panel that includes Amy Richardsof Make the Road New York, Charmaine Ruddock of Bronx Health REACH, Nicholas Freudenberg, and other panelists TBA. “