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Exploring Justice Along the Food Chain: A Vegetable Tamale Workshop
A couple years ago for Cesar Chavez Day, Seed the Commons developed a vegan tamale workshop that explores social justice along the food chain. Learning about food systems while nomming on delicious healthy tamales turned out to be a winning combo, and we have since been invited to lead this workshop in partnership with various organizations. We're excited to go to LA next month and hold it at UCLA! It will be slightly modified as it will be a demo,…
Find out more »Veganic Gardening Workshop
ATTENTION!!!!!!! Due to the cold weather, we are changing the location of the event. The workshop will be held at 1885 Mission St, at Mission and 15th. When you arrive, text or call 415-886-7848 and we will open the door for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're back with a new series of veganic gardening workshops! Matt Loisel, long-time veganic gardener and founder of Lazy Millennial Farms, will teach how to start a garden and grow our own food organically, without using the…
Find out more »#GetMilkOut Signature Gathering
We will be gathering signatures for our petition to get milk out of San Francisco school meals (read more: http://seedthecommons.org/getmilkout/). Email us to volunteer. The meeting point is in San Francisco and will determined closer to date.
Find out more »Digital Security for Animal Liberation
Digital security is important for everyone, particularly for people working for the liberation of animals. Join us for a two-hour overview of best practices in securing your digital identity and communications. We will review two-factor authentication to secure your email account, non-corporate service providers, hardware encryption and basic email encryption (Mac and Linux only for the last two items). Laptop will be required for the workshop. Suggested donation is $15, with nobody turned away for lack of funds. RSVP required…
Find out more »#GetMilkOut Signature Gathering
We will be gathering signatures for our petition to get milk out of San Francisco school meals (read more: http://seedthecommons.org/getmilkout/). The meeting point is at the Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Francisco. Email us to volunteer and receive updates.
Find out more »Berkeley Earth Day
Berkeley Earth Day is a free and festive event with music, vegan food and great speakers, including the Mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin. Berkeley Earth Day is also hosting the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this year (tickets are separate). Seed the Commons will be tabling all day, drop by and talk to us about building the food movement, veganic agriculture, climate activism and more. Nassim Nobari will speak at 3:40, see her talk description below. Organizing for a Climate-Friendly Food…
Find out more »Seed the Commons at Sunday Streets
With San Francisco hosting the Global Climate Action Summit this September, Seed the Commons is busy mobilizing civil society around the need to move away from industrial and animal agriculture to cool the planet. We will be at the Tenderloin Sunday Streets on May 6 and at other Sunday Streets this summer to spread the word and encourage San Franciscans to: Eliminate animal products from their diets Promote plant-based agroecology as a true solution to Climate Change Show up for…
Find out more »Oakland VegFest
We'll be tabling at Oakland VegFest this year! Come learn about our work while eating delicious vegan food.
Find out more »Veganic Gardening Workshop
Matt Loisel, long-time veganic gardener and founder of Lazy Millennial Farms, teaches how to start and maintain a healthy garden and grow our own food organically, without using the animal inputs commonly used in organics such as manure, blood or bonemeal. Gardening without synthetic or animal fertilizers is the most resource-efficient, sustainable and compassionate way to go about it and easy to boot. ************************ This is the 2nd workshop of our 2018 series and will cover: Understanding fertility - how…
Find out more »Animal Liberation Conference
The Animal Liberation Conference will take place in Berkeley and other locations in the Bay Area from May 23 to May 29. Don't miss Nassim Nobari's talk on May 25! The Food Movement v. Animal Liberation As the food movement becomes the anchor for society’s natural resistance to animal liberation, it is urgent that vegans get involved as leaders so that our ethic becomes normative.
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