The latest “private/public partnership” at the UN – the Food Systems Summit starting on Thursday, September 23 – is being opposed and challenged by WILPF US and our allies at the international Food Sovereignty Alliance.
What can YOU do?
Help support the virtual opposition to the September 13-23 summit by sharing on your social media accounts this FACEBOOK post, or THIS one. Let’s post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any other social media platforms you use!
SHARE our Facebook posts widely and often through
2 pm EDT, Sept. 23.
Also, you can just copy and paste the message below, including the hashtags and the link, into the section of your Facebook page which says “What’s on your mind?” Feel free to add your own comments.
Model Post
Food is too important to trust it only to profit-driven corporations that are increasingly unregulated. They’re promoting laws that prevent monitoring and enforcement for safety, quality and humane treatment of animals.
Food is everyone’s business, but big ag. corporations are trying to control every aspect of our food – from production to distribution to retail. NOW is the time to push back. #WILPFus #NotInOurNames #UNFSS2021 #WhyHunger #ViaCampesina
#FoodSovereigntyAlliance #FoodSystems4All
Why challenge this summit?
Our Allies at the Food Sovereignty Alliance contend that the agenda for the summit has been shaped entirely by the Big Ag. corporations trying to control our food. Big Ag. presents the false premise that petro-chemicals and GMO-modified seeds (terminator seeds that are designed to reject natural regeneration) are the only way to ‘feed the world’.
Small family farmers, organic farmers, sustainable agriculture proponents, environmentalists and farmworkers had no input into the meeting. They are being excluded and silenced! This kind of “corporate capture” is happening in other parts of the UN as well. We need to insist that money and profiteering has no place in the people’s business.
Help by taking action!
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You can read more information about this here.
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Watch our WILPF US Congress video “Who’s Coming To Dinner” about this work here.
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Put the word out on the internet frequently, Sept. 20-23!
- Share the social media posts provided (above) or make your own using the instructions provided. In your posts, highlight the lack of democracy and the disregard of the existing UN processes and meeting spaces.
- Avoid long messages and use simple terms so we can have the most engagement possible.
- Encourage your contacts/friends to share and retweet widely.
For more information, contact –
Earth Democracy Committee: earthdemocracy@wilpfus.org
Thank you!
Marybeth Gardam
Chair, Women, Money & Democracy Issue Committee
