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Join Lancaster BFBL, the Local Economy Center, and the Wohlsen Center for a Sustainable Environment (F&M College) this season for a series of thought-provoking movies and discussion looking at the ways we grow, process, and buy our food.

THE GARDEN

Thursday, May 6

7pm

Stahr Auditorium in Stager Hall at Franklin & Marshall College

The 14-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of its kind in the United States.  Started after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods, growing their own food, feeding their families, and creating a community.

But what happens when urban farmers meets hardball politics? Follow their gripping story in this award-winning documentary by Scott Hamilton Smith, filmed as the drama unfolded.

The movie will be followed by a discussion led by Jeffrey Montez de Oca (Prof. of Sociology F&M College)

Free and open to the public (donations are welcome!)
For the location of Stager Hall, go to http://www.fandm.edu/map

Co-sponsored by Lancaster BFBL, the Wohlsen Center for the Sustainable Environment and the Local Economy Center, Franklin & Marshall College.

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FOOD ON FILM!
reel provocative, and running this winter and spring!

Join Lancaster BFBL and the Wohlsen Center for a Sustainable Environment (F&M College) this season for a series of thought-provoking movies and discussion looking at the ways we grow, process, and buy our food.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO

Thursday, April 1

7pm

Stahr Auditorium/Stager Hall at Franklin & Marshall College

Monsanto supplies 90% of the genetically-modified seeds used by the US market, and owns the exclusive patents that define them as “intellectual property”. Over the last decade, Monsanto aggressively bought up over 50 seed companies around the globe–now 90% of all GE seeds planted in the world are patented by Monsanto and hence controlled by this corporation.

This chilling French documentary directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin has been widely acclaimed as “one of the most powerful, must see films for anyone interested in the behind the scenes world of the food industry, and how just one world dominating corporation holds the keys and patents to much of the world’s food supply.”

Free and open to the public (though donations are appreciated!)

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