[Sosfbay-discuss] FW: Strengthening the Roots Convergence THIS WEEKEND

[Drew Johnson]

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Subject: [sjsuenvclub-discuss] Strengthening the Roots Convergence THIS
WEEKEND
From:    "Amie Frisch" <amiefrisch at gmail.com>
Date:    Tue, February 10, 2009 16:53
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Strengthening the Roots: Food, Justice and Fair Trade Convergence

Feb 13th-15th 2009

Come spend the weekend in beautiful Santa Cruz, California for inspirational
and insightful look at how youth can get involved and make this world a
better place.

This Valentine's Day weekend,  United Students for Fair Trade (USFT) is yet
again joining forces with the California Student Sustainability Coalition
(CSSC) to create a super-convergence uniting the food systems and social
justice worlds. The event will be hosted by the Community Agroecology
Network (CAN) at UC Santa Cruz.  This is YOUR opportunity to get involved in
engaging dialogue, eye-opening
workshops and practical activism trainings working towards a
more sustainable and just world ...not to mention hang out with
like-minded awesome activists from all over the West Coast!

This convergence will provide a means to:

•Develop and strengthen inter-school connections and collaboration in order
to deepen and expand the Sustainable Food & Fair Trade movement

•Increase the number of skilled, knowledgeable and confident youth leaders
throughout the Western United States.

•Broaden the scope of the convergence to integrate Fair Trade & Sustainable
Food-based Initiatives in an effort to foster new alliances and partnerships
toward creating more just and sustainable communities and institutions.

•Form relationships, light fires, and have fun.

To register go to http://www.usft.org/node/178.

There is a sliding scale registration fee of $25-$35 to help cover the cost
of the convergence. Financial aid is available for registration and travel
costs.

Contact us at westcoastconvergence at gmail.com or usftwestcoast at gmail.com with
any questions.

Hope to see you there!

--
Alex Cole-Weiss
West Coast Coordinator,
United Students for Fair Trade
828.231.6768