People's Grocery's Challenge Campaign: We Need You

From August 1 through September 15th, People's Grocery is trying to raise $10,000 to match a challenge grant offered by a generous supporter. Your contribution doubles in value during this time!

Like many organizations, we rely on contibutions from our supporters and friends to keep our programs healthy. Giving online is the easiest, fastest and most effective way to help. Your tax-deductible donation can help pay for our general operating costs, buy seeds and supplies for our gardens, support our cooking class and Community HANDS programs and help with expenses for our Allyship and Growing Justice Programs.

Click here to donate and help us meet the challenge!

Bay Area Haiti Food Solidarity

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From the Bay Area to Haiti:

Creating Local Food Sovereignty

Come learn about Haiti, about urban farming or food fermenting, or just watch an outdoor movie and take part in this event series to support reconstruction, sustainable agriculture, and food sovereignty in Haiti. The Ecology Center, People’s Grocery, Haiti Action Committee, Food First, Planting Justice, Phat Beets Produce, and KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio have partnered to produce a series of events to benefit the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) sustainable agriculture programs and to help people in the Bay Area understand what’s really going on in Haiti. Click on the events below to learn more details. Full list of events, descriptions, and locations here

Thursday, Sept 16 Wild Fermentation–Sourdough
Sunday, Sept 19 Worm Composting with People's Grocery
Friday, Oct 1 Film Screening, “Lafanmi Selavi”
Sunday, Oct 3 Fall Seed and Guerilla Plant Propagation
Thursday, Oct 7 Wild Fermentation: Ginger Ale, Mead & Kombucha
Come see our ED NIKI HENDERSON present on this panel
Thursday, October 14 From the Bay Area to Port-au-Prince: Creating Food Sovereignty in Haiti

West Oakland BBQ @ the Cal Hotel Garden Summer 2010

Press and Statements

Statement from People's Grocery on SB1070:

People's Grocery is part of a larger movement for social justice in Oakland, California, and throughout the country. We could not let the enactment of SB1070 in Arizona pass without comment. Today, certain parts of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 go into effect. The law targets people of color, requires police to inquire into the immigration status of people based on “reasonable suspicion,” and criminalizes any undocumented person seeking to find work (one part claims that day laborers create traffic hazards). It also allows warrantless searches of suspected undocumented people. In full, the bill was set to cause the mass profiling and harassment of an entire group of people, based on the color of their skin.

People’s Grocery opposes the enforcement of SB1070 in Arizona, and supports the injunction that blocked most of the bill. It is unfortunate, but no surprise that Arizona has also banned Ethnic Studies in Arizona schools, declaring them as spaces that teach hate and intolerance. Criminalizing a group of people is terrible enough, but adding a wholesale erasure of the stories and cultural sharing of so many Arizonans based on country of origin or race reveals the depths of institutional racism. The foundations of public education and safe space in community are being ripped away from people of all races and ethnicities in Arizona, and we stand in solidarity with those who say we must resist and speak out.

Today is an international day of action against SB1070, with demonstrations taking place across the world. We will be participating in the march and demonstration in San Francisco. Safe communities are not made through the institutionalization of racism, or the criminalization of our neighbors. Safe communities are created through building health, wealth and self-determination, and that is the world People’s Grocery will continue to build.