Name: The Story of Iowa's Factory Farms - A Critical History & Solutions
Start: 2022-12-13T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-04-20T11:28:58-05:00
Location: Iowa City Public Library: Meeting Room A

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

12/13/2022 5:30pm 12/13/2022 7:30pm The Story of Iowa's Factory Farms - A Critical History & Solutions Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture presents: The Story of Iowa's Factory Farms - A Critical History & Solutions, a series of presentions: "Colonization and farming in Iowa - an Indigenouse perspective on Colonial-Capitalist farming practices". by Sikowis Nobiss, Founder and Executive Director, Great Plains Action Society "The Farm Crisis of the 1980's and Rise of Vertical Integration" Voluntary Nutrient Reduction Systeems & Biogas Partships (greenwashing) by Silvia Secchi, Associate Professor, UI Dept Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Public Policy Center. Organizer of "We All Want Clean Water Now" "False Solutions - Restrictions on Local Control, Ag-Gag and Hostile judicial Proceedings" by John Aspray - Food and Water Watch Senior Organizer "Fight for a Moratorium" by Diane Rosenberg, Executive Director of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, inc. "Local Fight" by Laura Westemeyer, Johnson County Resident . Emma Schmidt - Iowa Organizer Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action Sponsored by 100 Grannies For a Livable Future, The Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture and The Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago public

In-person event + Livestream
Meeting Room A

Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture presents: The Story of Iowa's Factory Farms - A Critical History & Solutions, a series of presentions:

"Colonization and farming in Iowa - an Indigenouse perspective on Colonial-Capitalist farming practices". by Sikowis Nobiss, Founder and Executive Director, Great Plains Action Society

"The Farm Crisis of the 1980's and Rise of Vertical Integration"

Voluntary Nutrient Reduction Systeems & Biogas Partships (greenwashing) by Silvia Secchi, Associate Professor, UI Dept Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Public Policy Center. Organizer of "We All Want Clean Water Now"

"False Solutions - Restrictions on Local Control, Ag-Gag and Hostile judicial Proceedings" by
John Aspray - Food and Water Watch Senior Organizer

"Fight for a Moratorium" by Diane Rosenberg, Executive Director of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, inc.

"Local Fight" by Laura Westemeyer, Johnson County Resident .

Emma Schmidt - Iowa Organizer Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action

Sponsored by 100 Grannies For a Livable Future, The Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture and The Iowa City Public Library

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