PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Food Beyond Extraction is a food cart that mobilizes foods, written materials and conversations related to the impacts of and resistances to Canadian mining extraction in Global South territories.
Our cuisine highlights foods and ingredients from regions whose land, food and cultural rights are being threatened by Canadian mining projects in the three countries sponsoring PDAC this year.
WHO
This is a project by Dana Prieto@dana__prieto in collaboration with Aemilius Milo Ramirez @foodbycomiditas, Reza Nik@rezaniik, Meech Boakye @ghostyboi and in conversation with Beyond Extraction Counter Conference and People Before Profit rally organizers.
WHEN & WHERE
On February 28-29, 2020, Food Beyond Extraction takes place at the Beyond Extraction Counter Conference (BECC), organized by Graphe, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and Beyond Extraction Collective.
@BydExtraction
@beyond_extraction
On March 1, 2020, the cart comes out to the streets outside PDAC, joining a coalition of social and environmental organizations in the rally People Before Profit: Evict the Corporate Villains to stand up to colonial extractive violence.
#PEOPLEbeforeprofit
#disruptPDAC
DONATIONS
All donations collected by Food Beyond Extraction during the March 1st rally, will be donated to support the Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders through the Unist’ot’en Legal Fund.
Unist’ot’en Legal Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten-camp-legal-fund