Upcoming Webinar: Breadlines, Sweet Charity and Beyond: A Conversation with Jan Poppendieck and Nick Saul hosted by CFC
Posted: November 22, 2012
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Cover of Jan Poppendieck’s book “Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”
Register for the upcoming webinar on Thursday December 13th, hosted by Community Food Centres Canada, that will examine how we can move from charity to solidarity in emergency food programs. The webinar will be organized as a conversation between scholar, author and activist Jan Poppendieck and Nick Saul, president and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada. The pair will draw on their collective 50 years experience in the study and delivery of emergency food initiatives to offer an engaging mix of theoretical and on-the-ground perspectives.
The webinar will run from 12:00-1:00pm EST on Thursday December 13th. Please register here – it’s free!
Janet Poppendieck is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (University of California Press, 2010); Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Penguin, 1999); and Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Rutgers University Press, 1985). Learn more about Jan at her website.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ross, the CFC Learning Network Coordinator, at ross@cfccanada.ca .