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Occupy Your Food: Second annual Real Food and Resistance conference brings diverse speakers from Northwest

Written by Sydney Leonard Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:09

From a common seed of discontent and passion, Bend will be home this weekend to both the Occupy Bend rally, a local outpost for the expanding national Occupy Wall Street movement, and the second-annual Real Food and Resistance Conference (RFRC) organized by Bend native, Casey Corcoran. While both events grapple with the fallout of economic problems and disenfranchisement, the RFRC is anchored in food.

Through a two-day series of lectures, films and open community discussions at the PoetHouse in downtown Bend, the RFRC is trying to work outside of the framework of preconceived political dogma and demands and the comforts of sugar-coated “buy local” campaigns to look at food as a means of re-localization and empowerment.

“Our focus is food,” explained Corcoran, “because food is fundamental to everyone’s daily life and it’s intimately connected to all the other crises we are facing, it’s the real crux.”

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