"Cesar's Last Fast" Comes to BUF

Members of the C2C/BUF Partnership Team are working with the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival to bring this inspiring film on the challenges that farmworkers have been, and are, being faced with.  Community to Community’s mission and work is influenced by the community organizing model of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker’s movement in California and Washington State and BUF stands with C2C in promoting equity and dignity for our farmworkers.  

Join us, the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival, Community to Community and the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in deepening our understanding of the challenges farmworkers face and the obstacles they have to overcome. Hear from Community to Community staff members as they speak to the vision of Cesar Chavez as they stand in the front lines of farmworker struggles here in Whatcom and Skagit counties and across the globe.

Farmworker Legislative Reception

Here's an info graph that will allow you to understand what goes into making the tamales for the annual Holiday Tamale Fundraiser for C2C at BUF.

Tamales Order Form    –    Proceeds support C2C’s Cocinas Sanas Project

Name:        ______________________________

Phone:      ______________________________

Email:        ______________________________

Orders are available in quantities of 6 or 12.  All orders must be made and prepaid by December 15^th for Winter Holidays order.

Please mark how many of each type you’d like. 

Proceeds go directly to Community to Community and the  Cocinas Sanas Project. Community to Community Development is a women-led, place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities. The goal of  the Cocinas Sanas project is: ·  To empower Latinas to improve their health, the health of their families and their community. ·  To provide culturally appropriate education on cooking and making healthier eating choices. ·  To restore traditional recipes, cultural practices around health and healthy eating. ·  To work together to create equitable access to healthy lifestyles.

Vegan Tamales:

6 tamales for $15                     __________

12 tamales for $30                   __________

24 tamales for $55                  __________

Vegetarian Cheese Tamales:

6 tamales for $18                     __________

12 tamales for $35                   __________

24 tamales for $60                 __________

Chicken Tamales:

6 tamales for $18                     __________

12 tamales for $35                   __________

24 tamales for $60                 __________

Sweet Dessert Tamales:

6 tamales for $15                     __________

12 tamales for $30                   __________

24 tamales for $55                  __________

                                   

Price for Order                               $__________

Additional donation to C2C                    $__________

Grand Total                                                 $__________

For Questions or Orders: 

When will you be picking up your order? December 22nd  from 5:30PM-7:30PM   ___ December 23rd  from 5:30 PM-7:30PM   ___

Call (360)738-0964, email christinaw@foodjustice.org ,

203 W. Holly St. Ste. 315 Bellingham,WA 98225

Order online at foodjustice.org

 Proceeds go directly to Community to Community and the  Cocinas Sanas Project.

Community to Community Development is a women-led, place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities.

The goal of  the Cocinas Sanas project is:

·  To empower Latinas to improve their health, the health of their families and their community.

·  To provide culturally appropriate education on cooking and making healthier eating choices.

·  To restore traditional recipes, cultural practices around health and healthy eating.

·  To work together to create equitable access to healthy lifestyles.

2014 Raices Culturales Summer Newsletter

Here's a link to the Summer Newsletter of C2C's Raices Culturales program.  Translated Cultural Roots - Raices Culturales is C2C’s Youth Mentoring Project.  This project provides musical, writing, poetry, dance, yoga, visual art, film, nutrition, and Spanish language development opportunities for young people between the ages of 7 and 12.  It also explores issues of gender justice.

Summer 2014 Raices Culturales Newsletter

C2C awarded 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize

C2C wins another award! This time sharing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award with Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) of Palestine, based in Gaza and the West Bank.

http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/food-sovereignty-and-trade-mainmenu-38/1665-u-s-farmworkers-and-palestinian-farmers-share-2014-food-sovereignty-prize

"In Washington State, amid failed immigration policies that criminalize working families, Community to Community Development has supported and worked with immigrant farm workers to develop farm worker-owned cooperatives, organize a successful nutrition education project called Cocinas Sanas, and promote domestic fair trade in regional assemblies and meetings. Most recently, C2C has supported an emerging farm worker union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, and organized a national boycott of Sakuma Farms, their employer, who withheld pay, provided poor housing, and has since retaliated against the workers. Familias Unidas por la Justicia recently won a settlement for wage theft and had a Superior Court Judge rule uphold their right to organize – but their fight is not over.

“In honoring Community to Community, the USFSA honors indigenous farmworkers in the U.S. Displaced by NAFTA, these peasant farmers from Mexico are practicing a tradition of struggle for justice. Together, C2C and Familias Unidas are promoting food sovereignty in rural Washington State and challenging the corporate agricultural interests that are controlling our food system,” said Rosalinda Guillen, Executive Director of Community to Community Development."

Well done and congratulations to the C2C staff!

C2C Awarded Best Non-Profit Organization

Come Celebrate at Their 10th Anniversary Party Sept. 6th 4-10pm

We can all be proud that our partner organization Community to Community has just been been selected for the 2014 Best of Bellingham Award in the Non-Profit Organization category by the Bellingham Award Program*.  Come celebrate their first ten years of social and environmental justice work on Saturday, September 6th in Boundary Bay's Beer Garden from 4-10 pm.  The anniversary party will include music, a silent auction, dancing and more.  All are most welcome.

*Each year, the Bellingham Award Program identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Bellingham area a great place to live, work and play. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2014 Bellingham Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Bellingham Award Program and data provided by third parties.