[Peace] Anna Lappé will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence February 21-24

Karen Medina kmedina67 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 10:58:10 CST 2011


This is more food related than peace politics, but as we have seen in
Egypt and other countries, the cost of food has a lot to do with
political revolutions...
Anna Lappé will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence February 21-24.
Anna and her mother are founding principals of the Small Planet
Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education
about the root causes of hunger and poverty.

There are events every evening at 7pm.
Monday, February 21; 7pm - Hope’s Edge: Fighting Hunger, Building
Communities Around the World
Tuesday, February 22; 7pm - Eat the Sky: The Climate Crisis at the End
of Our Fork and What We Can Do About It
Wednesday, February 23; 7pm - Froot Loops, Pop Tarts, and Big Macs:
The Selling of Our Selves
Thursday, February 24; 7pm - Fresh Ideas: Grassroots Solutions to
Creating Healthy, Sustainable, Affordable Food for All in the US

For the full description of the schedule, see
http://housing.illinois.edu/Announcements/Allen%20Hall-Unit%20One/Anna%20Lappe%20will%20be%20a%20Unit%20One%20Guest-in-Residence%20Feb%2021%20-%20Feb%2024.aspx

Her latest book is "Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the
End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It" (Bloomsbury, March
2010)


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