Link for meeting on Monday eve - I set it for 7:30 pm. Please let me know if you would prefer a different time!

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Me as well!

me too!

I do! I do! (want to remain involved with EFF, EJFN, the working groups, and all y'all!)

hey, when do we want a debrief of the 2021 EFF? Monday eve? STJCC zoom?

BTW, I have created an Emergency Food Forum group on Action Network and registered both the EFF and EJFN groups as partners on Action Network (we didn't do that before and it really hampered our ability to do much on the Action Network).

Who wants to be organizers on either (or both) groups on Action Network? We should have several people as organizers for each group.

Back room chat doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgFXeGTVkn-UGVkwXyT1BGceStZuWrgN8gqSLcaZhSQ/edit

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could someone post the zoom link pls

David will do Climate food overview and Carolynne will do closing -5 minutes

also, this piece in atmos today really hitting right about now as the thunderstorm roars:

"Every year for tens of thousands of years, the Lakota people have gathered in the Black Hills of South Dakota during the Spring Equinox to welcome back the Wakinyan Oyate, the Thunder Beings. Welcoming back the thunder is not just a solemn rite of reverence -- it's also about showing gratitude and passing on tradition.

Even at its most devastating, the storm presents us with an opportunity. It’s a chance to build back better, to make things right, and to appreciate what we’ve been given. We are imperfect humans, flawed by design—but that doesn’t mean we cannot be powerful conduits of change in our own right. We can heal the land and water. We can save the planet. One earnest voice crying out is enough to shake the very foundations of the corrupt system that’s led to our imminent demise."

Facilitator's sheet is updated just scroll down to the last page "session 3" :) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E-bib0w77nGgv2BSUpka07Dieq_kCObL9ghvpM_3KUM/edit?usp=sharing

I think that makes sense, maybe you could give an example of how multiple people can add info to the same row like (as an example in itself lol) "when our co-op had a need to provide culturally relevant food to our community members of Black and African Descent - this would go in the first column. And then Black food toronto and Afri-CAN Food Basket could say "hey we do that!" and put their name in the third column"

oooooooh ok ok ok -- this was my understanding of it that I wrote down in my notes

"they’re broken down into needs/opportunities, strategies being taken, and organizations currently doing this work. There is also an events tab where you can add upcoming events you know or have heard about!"

^ this makes sense to me but I guess it's not what we were aiming for?

I was thinking about this too! I am trying to remember but if I remember correctly (BIG IF) the first "name/org/strategy" is for those who are seeking/offering support whereas the second one would be filled out by someone else being like "oh xyz are who are doing this work already or who may benefit from this work"

Does anyone else remember? Does this sound correct? If so, we should probably include some clarifiers and maybe we can make the first two columns slightly tinted in one colour and the 3rd column slightly tinted in another colour for differentiation

one q:

i'm having a hard time articulating the difference between "Name/org/strategy to offer" and "Groups/orgs already connected to this work" -- especially since the former category is not really filled in from last year...maybe because these are so similar, folks will just pick one to write the organization/group doing this work?

wondering if we could change the wording of one of them to further differentiate between the two?

you're amazing lmao i just logged on to do this -- a wonderful surprise

Here is a new excel sheet for the 2021 forum and I added a second tab for events https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zXxnM2M6NKY73WCxoEol6lPp5J5JHfcAoj16BKG2JVo/edit?usp=sharing

closing survey and evaluation https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FA5yiLhAZVhywYnvG4PFhsMS8tz3Mxyynf7RUc6IByw/edit

Same link for the meeting tomorrow!

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Hi, thanks Yasmine and Lily. I have our housing co-op AGM tonight at 6:30-8:30, I will aim to jump in to the EFF planning meeting too, though it would be a good idea for me to join for when you're discussing points that are relevant to where I can contribute best. Is there an agenda that I can view, so I know what time I should come to discuss the 3rd session planning at?

Meeting for tonight

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let's have a forum meeting this Monday (i.e. today) at 7:30pm. yasmine, can you set up the zoom?

Hi all, when is the next planning meeting? It looks like there's perhaps some sizable work to be done on planning for the last call, on Miro I can see there's an outline of the event but no goals set and I can't find an agenda anywhere either. I am not reliably available over the weekend but I'll check back here early Monday in case there's a meeting scheduled for then. Thanks!

thx susanna! they are now posted on our youtube and linked on the website.

Recording and chatbox text are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SpAVQ5UaA5YHE7HclMyRY8uHx27I0QmW?usp=sharing

I'll be travelling tomorrow evening, I am happy to be updated afterwards... I can also set up a link but will need to ask another staff member to start the meeting and make someone the host. Let me know if you'd all like this to be arranged .. and for 7? or when

tomorrow evening?

Is there a set date/time for when we meet next to plan the 3rd call? I assumed that we weren't going to figure it out on the after-party zoom at 9:30pm since less than half of us were still there.

Yes! Our friend Laura Reinsborough is the ED of that organization. She founded Not Far From The Tree here in Ontario but moved out East a few years ago. It's a great guide!

A neat climate action/food resource created by a New Brunswick food org: https://foodforallnb.ca/media/docs/EatersGuidetoClimateAction.pdf

Slides on Levels of Listening: https://utoronto-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/d_burman_utoronto_ca/ESJ-gmUrZOFFvXcOfee0lbUBLEPiEZWAhVdIUIkDM55h4Q?rtime=57wqQFkE2Ug

why coalition advocacy matters and something to celebrate for once:

Farmers for Climate Solutions (FCS) is a farmer-led national coalition of 19 organizations, including the NFU.  In consultations in recent months and in a detailed Task Force report, FCS called on the federal government to spend $300 million on six new policies to help farmers reduce emissions.  Today’s budget document includes many of the programs requested by FCS.  Similarly, the Budget reflects requests that the NFU made to the Minister of Agriculture in recent meetings.  

Hi all, just a quick communications note: if everybody who's able to do so can send a note, an email, post on their socials about tomorrow's forum - we set tomorrow as the LAST DAY to register for this entire event. Emphasize that they will get caught up with what happened last time (they can view the last session's recording on the Eco Just FN website portal too). Please try to get the word out. I'm attaching images you can use below too. I'm tagging SJT on the LFFC posts now :)

Emergency Food Forum Agenda - Session 2 - April 21st, 2021 6:30 - 9 pm

public version of draft agenda with break moved to 8

6:30 pm - Welcome & 7 teachings

6:35 pm - Hosting Guidelines & Recording announcement

6:38 pm - Presenting Survey results on who’s in the room

6:43 pm - Overview of 1st Session discussions

6:48 pm - What we are doing tonight:

• visioning collaborating on solutions

• Two rounds of breakout sessions: 1. cultivating solutions 2. political action  

6:50 pm - Overview: Black Food Sovereignty - Anan Lololi

7:00 pm - Overview: Urban Ag and food policy - Rhonda Teital Payne

7:15pm - Breakout Round 1:  Cultivating Solutions:

• Time Banking & Alternative Economies

• Co-operative /Alternative Food/Land Access

• Black Food Sovereignty & Cultural Food Diversity

• Food Security & Climate Change: Urban Ag and Infrastructure

7:55pm - Report Back from Breakouts

8:05pm- 5 minute Break ?

8:10pm - Overview: UN Food Summit and Open Letter-Josephine Grey

8:15pm - Breakout Round 2: Advocacy/Political Action:

Considering Solutions from round 1: 

• Driving Policy Change: UN Food Summit/ Canadian policy

• Driving Policy Change: Open Letter/GTA/Ontario

• Change Through Political Action: Black Food Sovereignty

8:40pm - Report Back from Breakouts

8:55pm - Next steps and 3rd Session Prep

• Emergency Food Forum community page:

  • https://ecojustfoodnetwork.org/emergency-food-forum-community-centre/

  • Pw: 2021FoodForum

8:58pm - Closing & Gratitude   

9:00pm-9:20pm - open networking/discussion time

ignore previous attached copy- we can put the break back if ppl want, i just felt it was too soon

fiddled with timing to see if it's better with the break coming after Round 1 -at 8pm? either way we need to post this sometime today maybe take most of the times off too... distracting

neva mind was overlap not doubled....my bad.

need to post amended agenda - found a timing problem- we doubled up the overviews and are 10 minutes short! oops!

from the 2021 Fed budget: progress....

I tweaked the agenda so that the break occurs while Susanna is setting up the rooms. now we have 15 minutes for the second round report back and can end at 9. We can suggest people to think about/write down key ideas for solutions while on break if they want to. maybe play music? The picture book reading is sweet, but agenda is too tight imo- inspired me do want to do a think tank session on water and the food system... the book and pledge would be perfect for that.. i forgot to hit send this afternoon.... sigh not my best day

Google Doc for back-room conversations during the sessions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgFXeGTVkn-UGVkwXyT1BGceStZuWrgN8gqSLcaZhSQ/edit

yeah, I think we might not be needing a proper exercise at all, then! esp since we were struggling to find more time to add in our last meeting

i think ppl would rather organize than exercise in the break out rooms... imo we can cover the break /room prep with a slide of the portal page and some music, an invitation to privately write some key points they want to offer -if they want/can- all action all the time...lol

to launch break outs imo we need a few ground-rules,-1 minute, and very brief intros - there are many seasoned active adults involved esp call 2

*"In this tribute to Native resilience, Indigenous author-and-illustrator team Lindstrom and Goade invite readers to stand up for environmental justice. An inspiring call to action for all who care about our interconnected planet."—starred review, Kirkus Reviews

*"Observation is not enough, the book communicates: action is necessary... A passionate call for environmental stewardship." —starred review, Publishers Weekly

the pledge:

my first thoughts on the exercise:

1 - I like what Lily said about being more engaging this time and not having that dead air that can be a bit alienating. So I thought we'd switch up and do something a bit different -- I thought we'd read a picture book together!
This book is called "We Are Water Protectors" and I just watched a video (bottom of the page I linked) where the author reads it over zoom in ~5 minutes and then the illustrator takes folks through the pledge at the back of the book, which I also thought could be something we might want to do!

Check the video at the bottom of the page I linked above from ~9 min to ~13 min mark -- do you think something like that could work well?

Anyone could be the reader! We could even read it together, where whoever is moved to speak just comes off mute and reads the words on the page (there are few) -- I've done it this way in the past, though, and it's a bit hectic.


2 - Another idea I had came from my not having as many ideas as I usually do! The time constrictions of having to start and complete an exercise that's meant to be critically engaging in only 5 min can be a difficult task, so I thought it might work better if we plan to do the exercise in the breakout rooms. We would all be doing the same exercise but related to our own topics -- I don't know exactly what that exercise will be yet, but I thought I'd run these 2 ideas by all y'all!

Google Doc for 2nd Session Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUx5gADBQAPOHIHUdrcMA2VsW-i7Qv9x__hNHRbjoaU/edit

Great job! thanks Susanna! i have a couple of suggestions - like deleting more of my bumbling intro, using the open letter when i talk about it instead of more hr slides, (so sorry, i wish i had been screen sharing (sigh)... and maybe a slide of links etc after Yasmine at the end while I am talking but not on screen (oh dear) at closing. and two places where interruptions were disruptive. At the start of Carolynnes' talk, and when Nolan was presenting his break out group... possible?

Hi all, you can find the recording and the chatbox text here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/134czzTMEgL86bcohrTWjalEivHdVmCvB?usp=sharing Note that the recording started a little into Jo's speech which is a bit cut off, it's not the worst but I could also chop and edit it a bit to rearrange some pieces with a bit more time. I added a slide with the breakout room topics during Dragos' explanation of the exercise, and Jo's slides during her talk, and obviously cut out the deadweight in the middle where we're breaking or doing breakout groups. LMK your thoughts.

Chatbox text is in .txt file format.

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Whoops sorry I missed that - I can make the link for tomorrow.. may not be able to attend it though, I'll see what I can do!

Yasmine, are you able to set up a St Jamestown Zoom account meeting link and send to everyone for tomorrow (Thurs) at 7:30pm and Monday at 7:30pm for meeting times for the Call 2?

Yes! Also, we're still meeting right now, can you join back? And anyone else who left? Dragos, Erica, Petra... trying to schedule our next meeting for planning Call 2

Wooo great first session everyone <3

DAY 1: April 14
Topic: Emergency Food Forum - Day 1Time: Apr 14, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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can someone share zoom pretty pls!

sounds good!

Happy event day, everyone! Feeling pumped this morning.

We are at 115 registrants, $300 and 39 responses to our survey - yay!

I put a reminder to register out on the FB event page. I was planning to schedule a post to go out early this afternoon reminding people to fill out the survey also - let me know if that's okay. It may be reaching folks who haven't registered yet, but the wording would be something like "if you're already registered on Eventbrite, have you filled out the survey yet?" and explaining the importance of doing so.

human rights reading: below and attached

Applied HR change formula:

"LIFT encourages all who want to work towards the enforcement of the human rights framework to:

Involve communities and local governments in human rights education and advocacy and in building capacity to fulfill rights to housing, health, education and public services.

Educate Parliamentarians and elected representatives on their duty to uphold human rights and invoke national sovereignty in matters concerning domestic human rights.

Advocate for measures to ensure that international trade agreements and other actions taken by the state are bound by commitments made by governments to human rights, environmental protection, human security, and sustainable social and economic development.

Propose constitutional or legislative reform to protect the primacy of human rights.

Increase participation of those most effected in the process of claiming human rights and remedies and defend them from retribution.

Engage in national processes to monitor compliance with domestic and International human rights obligations and prepare civil society submissions to the treaty body of the UN.

Collaborate on developing indicators to measure human rights compliance and progress, such as time use, health and quality of life data.

Engage communities and organizations in participatory research and evaluation; to document and report the impact of economic agreements and decisions on human rights conditions; to inform the public, governments and human rights commissions.

Establish human rights standards and mechanisms appropriate to different environmental and cultural contexts for holding governments and institutions accountable.

By knowing, claiming and demanding enforcement of existing human rights, people everywhere can engage in a powerful local to global process to create a better world of peace and sustainable prosperity."

In the words of Nelson Mandela:

We must “develop a new political culture based on human rights”

Published for INCHRITI by LIFT Toronto, Canada 01/2002

Plain language summary of Economic social cultural rights covenent:
http://www.lift.to/united-nations-covenant-on-social-and-cultural-rights/

EFF Session Miro Board link: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lKvB5DM=/

plain escr - Updated Plain Language ESCR summary.odt human rights and food-Human+Rights+and+Food_Presentation(3).pdf still looking for the drawdown thing(!)

maybe the community portal https://ecojustfoodnetwork.org/emergency-food-forum-community-centre/

some other useful things?

https://regenerationcanada.org/en/map/ NFU climate doc: Emergency Food Forum › Notes & Files › NFU Report/Climate materials

You can join the meeting tonight through this link: https://meet.jit.si/EcoJustFoodNetworkWklyMtg

actually, it might be better to meet via zoom, so we can share screen?

Ok thanks!

the meeting is at 7:30pm and you can find the link in the Weekly Meeting thread (at top of thread).

Is there a zoom link or Jitzi link that I missed for today's meeting? I just checked the other EJFN board and the Jitzi link no one else is there, the alternative Zoom link is only for last week and doesn't work.

i locked the structure of the EFF Sessions Miro board, so it can't be accidentally changed, moved, shifted or deleted. that should give facilitators & note-takers peace of mind when we are taking notes in the miro.

i also deleted everyone's test notes...except for Juan's cute cat!

also, i meant to point this out yesterday: in the left-hand bar of the Miro board (where you can choose stickies or text or shapes, etc), there are three dots at the bottom. clicking on that gives you more options, including a mind map format, which may be useful!

feel free to experiment, but please remember to delete your experiments afterwards, so we have a clean slate for wednesday.

Here's a template to use for answering inquiries about finding the zoom link on Weds or last minute Eventbrite registrants that register after 5pm (I can check at 5pm): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j0c6LAAzXGKsj-3ZplOlqE9ggxf5Lz-tJUv1HfcAPl4/edit

key questions from last year: fyi ...

What is happening? What do we expect to happen? Context 

• How has Pandemic affected the food system

• What are some solutions that arise from what’s being learned? 

•   What do we need to do to enhance food security and justice?

o   What do we have to work with now?

o   What’s missing?

o   Visions of the ideal (future)

o   Reconciliation with the land

• How do we begin to make it happen with the collective power in this room?

• How do we cultivate urban-rural relationships to scale up resilient food system innovation?  

ofc if u want to bring up a possible "opportunity" 😏

"The radical of valuing all labour (or time) equally seeks explicitly to recognize and value the unpaid time that people spend maintaining their neighbourhoods and caring for others. Thus, voluntary work is rewarded and so incentivized (rather than squeezed out by the conventional economic system which accords it no value)

• Time Banks aim to overcome the ‘green niche’ limitations of LETS by being based in mainstream institutions (health centres, schools, libraries), paying coordinators for development and support work, and most importantly, for brokering transactions between participants"

lovely -- can't wait to see what y'all talk abt and come up with!

totally agree, dragos! i am facilitating that topic and that is exactly what i had in mind :-)

having said that, while we do need a glossary, i hesitate jamming it with too many terms and definitions. i think we should find some balance between having a shared understanding of important terms and being too prescriptive in determining the meaning of loaded terms.

love the glossary idea -- strongly dislike wages and wage-work in general. one reason is that it is still very much within the capitalist idea of labour, making wage-work inherently exploitative and I don't think in keeping with our human rights lens.

i would love for whoever is facilitating that breakout group to try and tease out another way of thinking about work, and even perhaps come up with a term we can add to the glossary that does what the terms "living wage" and "fair wage" can't. here are some loose notes i took on an article earlier this week that could be useful in generating some questions for that group:

• Alternative systems of provision, with associated social and economic institutions and infrastructure, require a foundation in alternative values, development goals, motivations and definitions of wealth

• realigning of development priorities away from the primary goal of economic growth 

• environmental wealth, and the value of the labour of social reproduction which sustains communities and families, must be recognized, accounted for, and protected in order to strengthen inclusive, resilient communities and so support the market economy which rests upon this bedrock

• requires a redefinition of ‘work’ to value the unpaid work in society alongside formal employment

• the benefits of decentralized social and economic organization and local self-reliance in order to protect local environments and economies from the negative impacts of globalization

the design of exchange mechanisms builds in particular purposes and characteristics to each type of money → the type of currency itself has built into it a kind of value system

SO let's design one together with the right INTENT, which is to value all work, not just the work capitalism deems useful!

those interested: google "Sustainable consumption, the new economics and community currencies: Developing new institutions for environmental governance PDF by Gill Seyfang"

thats a great idea! aka evolving glossary lol

I was thinking about the wages convo and read here that they have different definitions

Living wage: min wage for basic needs in an area

Fair wage: min wage for an occupation, typically tradeworkers rights etc. and tied to unions

https://cupe.ca/minimum-living-and-fair-wages-whats-difference

Maybe the registration package includes a living dictionary that i/we could update and change as we go?

i tweaked the plain language doc for sharing with forum participants

Yes, thanks Lily, Jo and Yasmine! Here's the link again:

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I just did a Google calendar invite too but realized I don't have everyone's emails.

i pinned susanna's link in the timeline on the right, called "Link to Monday's Tech Run".

yes, we are having a tech run at 7pm tonight. i think susanna sent out the link?

hey folks, I can't find it in my email.. our next meeting is today? at what time? Should I make a link?

cyberspace community centre?

i made a page for forum participants: https://ecojustfoodnetwork.org/emergency-food-forum-community-centre/. the password is 2021FoodForum. i called it the Emergency Food Forum Community Centre. hope that's ok!

we can give that password out to forum participants so that they can enter the page. from there, they can go to basecamp, loomio or action network (not the open letter sign in page but to access the action network account, if they want to be a co-sponsor of the letter in action network and help to promote it through there).

the button "Read the Forum Notes" is not active because i don't know where to link it to yet.

useful guides re the UN summit process - i think using the goals and tracks can simplify our planning/breakout process and be able to engage with the UN summit at the same time.

it's anonymous so that's ok too... just retract the ultimatum? Or we only have 17, could add a question re contact info but then it's not anonymous for most but a few, does that matter?

uh oh! delete "only" re z-link? ... will just have to give link to all who have a ticket, so to get more responses we can ask again when we send out a prep reading package, monday eve? teusday am? and if still more are needed - during 1st call - we report on what have so far and it will update itself- can review 2nd call if we want..

That's ok because we are giving people til 2nd call to register so new surveys may come in over the week

i think we have a problem regarding the pre-registration survey: we have no way of knowing who completed it and who hasn't. we only know the number of people who have completed the survey. we are telling people on eventbrite that their registrations are only complete once they fill in the survey and we will only send the zoom link to those who have done it....

Hi Everyone here is the google doc of our agenda for April 14th!!https://docs.google.com/document/d/19mX0XwKDzj3DAGCoPg-cGE1HBqmfUomxqEemwXZAuiU/edit?usp=sharing

Monday's 7pm Zoom Meeting and dry run link:

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Phone: +1 587 328 1099

yeah, for sure!

No, I mean on the Eventbrite page itself (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2021-emergency-food-forum-tickets-149784452329) If people want additional information on the event, and happen to be at the Eventbrite page, there's no way to get to the EJFN webpage directly from there. I think it would be useful, what do you think?

by eventbrite, do you mean the mailchimp email? if so, the big image links to the EFF webpage.

Can we add a link on the eventbrite page back to the EJFN EFF webpage (https://ecojustfoodnetwork.org/emergency-food-forum/) (Also, the eventbrite email looks great. I just received it).

nolan, can you create a facebook event? i can give you access to mailchimp and we can connect mailchimp with facebook - or you can give me access to facebook and i can do it.

i've sent out the mailchimp invite. here is the link if you want to use it: https://mailchi.mp/3a6eb95457a3/join-the-2021-emergency-food-forum.

630 -9 it is thanks all...

I agree it would be good to send out today. I think the initial plan was to send the invites out today, perhaps the poll was meant to close this morning instead?

BTW, I re-read the Eventbrite text and I put back in the bullet points with each Wednesday date and time. I really think that it is most clearly laid out that way. If there's strong objections I'll change it back, but for the visual learners I think it doesn't quite cut it otherwise.

so the poll is set to close tomorrow but do we want to wait that long before sending out the invites? it would be good to send it out today.

in call 2 image i think we should add UN Food Summit/Food Policy and maybe Urban Rural Farm/Food work

I've remade the images with the time adjustment, am replacing them on the Eventbrite, linked them in the EFF Images thread, dropped into the folder here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1EEjiMVAG9LBdvrrYLbcX79xveaHjWSl4

I could make a facebook event, but only through the St. James Town Coop..

Thanks Jo, I think that was from when we were going to do it that way. I removed that text so it wouldn't be so confusing.

Changing the ticket sales closing to the 21st.

Who is going to make the Facebook event? It should be made in the Eco Just Food Network FB account and can invite LFFC and other partners to be cohost. I just dropped the image for that one into the Images thread, but if the time changes I'll update it.

there was a line saying one must register for each session. Maybe that means get/find a link for each session.

Ticket sales closing the 21st could be good I know we can't mandate that ppl watch the opening just strongly suggest it. I hate playing catch up and wasting other ppls time.

I think it's a single registration for the entire event (event duration April 14-28th), at least that's what I experience when I click on the eventbrite. I can fix it so that ticket sales are done on April 21st at 10pm if you prefer it (I think this is a good idea, people will want to have the option to register once we have had one of the forums), right now it's set to only accept registrations until the first call on April 14th. I'm not sure what you mean by 'whoever joins late should watch the opening and see what's up first'. If you mean that they should watch a recording of the first video, we can send suggestions like this in the reminder email(s) before the 2nd and 3rd session, but I don't think there's a way to make it mandatory to do this.

so now they have to register for each forum? i thought we said they should for all three? i guess that's a tech issue? i like the content - not sure it should say 3 day series - 3 evening series is less confusing. we should not accept registrations past call 2 imo. And whoever joins late should watch the opening and see whats up first.

Hi, published the Eventbrite! Here's the link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2021-emergency-food-forum-tickets-149784452329

I'm just testing and finessing the confirmation page and email, auto-emails, etc. Whomever's got the info@ecojustfoodnetwork email account will see some orders coming in as I test in the next little bit.

The shortened link is: shorturl.at/qHPW7

Yes. <3

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yes, that would be great, jodi :-) will you be able to make the meeting tonight at 7:30pm?

I can make it this week if it is helpful to have me on the call in the same capacity -- to answer Qs in the chat <3

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University of Waterloo

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if we want to use Miro boards in our breakout rooms, i can create a Miro board with different frames (one frame per break out room) and the facilitators can share the Miro board but each keep to their own frame (no trespassing!). that also has the advantage of having everything recorded in place.

the question is: can breakout rooms share screens separately from each other? something we can test during the tech run?

Link to Miro map!

i've caught up... are we meeting now? i am sorry i dont have link :(

hi nolan, here is a page with instructions on how to add the eventbrite on facebook: https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articles/en_US/How_To/how-to-publish-your-eventbrite-event-to-facebook-and-sell-tickets?lg=en_US

Hey all, as per Lily's suggestion here's the links to the Food Forum zoom links. All are hosted on the LFFC's Zoom account, created with waiting rooms so even if you click on the link you'll be in a waiting room until we start the event and let you in. We will have the Eventbrite set up shortly, which will be the official invite link to share with people. Please don't share the links below with anyone outside our organizing group at this time. If you do need to include the links below anywhere online please hyperlink them if possible to prevent unwanted zoom-bombing traffic.

DAY 1: April 14
Topic: Emergency Food Forum - Day 1

Time: Apr 14, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88251423773?pwd=TlRoOXhvNTduV2dwcSszUS9vQys5dz09

Meeting ID: 882 5142 3773

Passcode: 954390

Phone: +1 438 809 7799

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DAY 2: April 21
Topic: Emergency Food Forum - Day 2

Time: Apr 21, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89682123194?pwd=UkJ4Wk5SWWJORnJKbUtsV3MrV096Zz09

Meeting ID: 896 8212 3194

Passcode: 968787

Phone: +1 647 558 0588

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DAY 3: April 28

Topic: Emergency Food Forum - Day 3

Time: Apr 28, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85954914009?pwd=RTNhTHZTa1BsMlF4UjJYaXQ3S3VQZz09

Meeting ID: 859 5491 4009

Passcode: 123944

Phone: +1 647 374 4685

Hey all, good questions and not too long and I like the external info links added. For this question,"Please list the organizations/farms/education institutions you are part of with these roles" there isn't a field to put answers, other than that it looks great!

hi all, for those who haven't yet, please review ( below) the invitation draft, registration survey, landing page ( i think we need a pwyc event brite as well) so we can finalize the invite tomorrow night and send it out wednesday am. Its only a week away from wednesday am i know, but many people have heard about the date and Carolynne is booked to open and close for us (and unavailable the 21st). I think we can manage to organize it and practice a tech run in time to be ready. Everyone on board is experienced and brilliant.

Nolan and I worked on the survey and pared it down - assuming we can ask questions during and after the forum - an exit/eval survey that also asks what people are/will be working on etc.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y2y36XVaBAvrcEIaMIm7r_tAmeGIC0zr8ZIR2VOupaM/edit

great, made a few tweaks- replaced Everdale with Black Creek - need to add NFU etc

i made a Miro schematic of the EFF: https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/poll7AllOj1s28ZptKBibCAaYXYyYbpnAGaY6QvABJiJwX5hSo0Kjz1T6e4Y8gc7. i was thinking more of how it could exist online, i.e. its web presence

i made a folder on the google drive for the emergency food forum: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jePjkQu3gYlxZ_rAszxoxgaMohnF20gZ?usp=sharing. we can store all relevant EFF files there, for collaboration, use and sharing.

fantastic! we are almost ready to go!

i made a spreadsheet of the emails form last year's EFF invites as well as from basecamp. see attached file. i will see if i can import it to action network.

Carolynne Crawley confirmed to do the opening re the dish with one spoon covenant 15 minutes and the closing to bring it back into peoples minds 10 minutes. I can follow her at the beginning to explain the human right to food and why we use the HR framework to build solidarity and be effective in a very diverse group with a complex challenge.

wow I would love to hear about 100% of that sometime! 😍

i like that Dragos, ( i met and adored Zapatistas back in the day when we were involved in the hemispheric social alliance) we have the open letter from the last forum- which will be released at a media event shortly after. we will discuss advocacy and action throughout. The advocacy stream can easily can create a call to action based on that and chart a course for the UN summit process that pushes govts to comply or look really bad.... lol

been thinking a lot about that report jo posted and how we're trying to build this local and global solidarity -- also, i'm obsessed with the zapatistas and i'm reading this paper called "Zapatismo as a Resonant Public Pedagogy" which talks about why and how that movement captured the imagination of so many people around the world and inspired a real call to action for global anti-capitalist anti-neoliberal action

so i wanted to propose we try to create a call to action or call to solidarity for this movement -- to situate ourselves and this forum, all the folks and organizations who are going to be there, within a larger movement of forums and actions and organizations :)

could look like an activity in one of the breakout rooms or a larger activity with more folks involved where we collectively brainstorm a vision...i wasn't there last year so please feel free to just say no this wont work or this is not what this is about and i will not be offended at all lmao

where is that text?

maybe we can use the text i wrote about how last years forum turned into action as narrative on the landing page? with links?

i made a landing page: https://ecojustfoodnetwork.org/emergency-food-forum/. the password is 2021foodforum. obviously, it is not done. needs links to register, etc. any feedback is welcome!

Indeed...

"In this second scenario, civil society seizes the initiative, developing deeper, wider, and more effective collaborations than ever before. A Long Food Movement is in fact long in the making. From ongoing Indigenous struggles against colonization to the anti-globalization protests that gave rise to the concept of food sovereignty, it is clear that civil society – in its diversity of forms and scales of action – can be a powerful change-maker. Looking back at those experiences, it is possible to identify four basic ingredients that food movements will need in order to drive forward transformation over the next quarter century:
1) collaborating across multiple scales;
2) broadening alliances and restructuring relationships;
3) connecting long-range commitment to wide range ‘horizon scanning’; and
4) being ready for change and disruption."

here is an excellent international report/resource to share with people http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LongFoodMovement

here is the link to the draft survey so far https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y2y36XVaBAvrcEIaMIm7r_tAmeGIC0zr8ZIR2VOupaM/edit

EFF Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lMh0Y24=/

here is a link to last years EFF agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BruJSixYGqCpBgqLSiYjjnK445GCUzao/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

good catch Petra, will check it out ...

Point of reference for FF planning (is lthis the best place for ll related to the Forum?)

This is an event 350.org is hosting free, 3 days (in a row) just before ours. May offer us ideas?

https://justrecoverygathering.org/?source=ptnr.newmode&utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=117438650&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ld_UbOEx8Pt3mfYi9_LmpRaG-cW6anZUpm6YjgrSPB0S-GO_R7JjhKUa3T9n6CJ-dltwErR3IGC7HhQTquG_wXi1Bov9e7acO6cw0GhOS2J_7-W8&utm_content=117438650&utm_source=hs_email

so far we have Local Farm and Food Co-op willing and able to co-host and manage the web platform for the forum, some St J co-p staff will assist, we can invite last years' participants, LFFC's list, St James Towns list, TUG- Toronto Urban Gardeners' list, the Black Food Toronto list, NFU local 305's list, i think Climate Fasts' and Drawdowns' lists.

re Agenda- We are thinking to share what came out of last years forum updates and identify challenges and opportunities- discuss actions and plans, and make ready for PR and media/advocacy strategies, and get people oriented to our platforms (basecamp, the EJFN website and loomio) over the 3 sessions.

I am thinking to hold the Open letter Press conference during or right after the Forum... that way we can discuss it at the forum so people are ready to promote it and add their voices via sm etc. your thoughts?

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