Advisory: USFSA to Award Food Sovereignty Prize TONIGHT, October 10 5:30PT

For Immediate Release – October 10, 2019

US Food Sovereignty Alliance to Award Food Sovereignty Prize TONIGHT, October 10

FERGUSON, MO: The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) will award the 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize to Urban Tilth (Richmond, CA) and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo (Plan People to People, Venezuela) this evening in Ferguson, Missouri. Interested press can view a livestream, and afterwards, a video of the ceremony at bit.ly/foodsovprize2019

The Food Sovereignty Prize honors those committed to working for social change through collective action, and highlights those confronting oppression and corporate control over seeds, land, water, labor, knowledge, supply chains, and policy-making. 

WHAT: 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony 

WHO: US Food Sovereignty Alliance members, allies, and interested press

WHEN: Tonight, October 10th at 5:30PT/ 8:30ET

WHERE: A livestream of the Ferguson, Missouri ceremony at bit.ly/foodsovprize2019

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As a US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups, the Alliance upholds the right to food as a basic human right and work to connect our local and national struggles to the international movement for food sovereignty. For more information, visit www.usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org.