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What will it take to Build a Local Food Movement?

Posted on In the News by · June 14, 2016 11:36 AM

Photo: chicagopatchworkfarms.com

Lauren Gurley of In These Times writes about what's needed to build a local, sustainable food movement in Chicago and Illinois. A Sustainable Economies Law Center event in Chicago that brought together a stakeholders in the local food movement is mentioned.

Innovate the Economy! Festival Chicago

Posted on Programs by · March 12, 2016 10:15 AM

Chicago! Interested in building businesses that make their local communities stronger? In creating enterprises that treat their employees like people and not commodities? In hatching solutions that combine environmental health AND justice?

Let's build a sustainable economy together.

Join us at the INNOVATE the ECONOMY! Festival, coming to Chicago this May. We'll be joined by local food businesses, community-serving nonprofits, worker-owned businesses, cooperative developers, policy experts, radical lawyers, and several others. To support the Innovate the Economy! Festival, donate below!

Innovate the Economy! Festival Calendar

Festival Opening Ceremonies [Happy Hour]

Saturday April 30, 2016, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Where: Kaiser Tiger, 1415 W. Randolph St.

What is Sustainable Economies Law Center and what is the Innovate the Economy! Festival? What better way to find out than over drinks, food and games.

"Do You Want to Build a [Worker-Owned Business]?"

Thursday May 5, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Where: University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th St., Room 3

Cosponsored by: University of Chicago Institute for Justice Clinic

Students of the Chicago Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and their clients discuss their experiences in working together to build cooperatively-owned and managed businesses.

"What's Law Got To Do With It?"

Monday May 9, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Where: Justice Entrepreneurs Project, 208 S. Jefferson St., Suite 204

Cosponsored by: Chicago Bar Foundation Justice Entrepreneurs Project

Speakers Dennis Kelleher of the Center for Workplace Democracy, and Clifford Helm of the Justice Entrepreneurs Project, will address the legal challenges facing clients wanting to incorporate democratic principles into their businesses, and options for lawyers to creatively address these challenges. :

"Farm to [S]table: Building a Resilient Local Food System"

Thursday May 26, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Where: Daystar Center/Overflow Coffee, 1550 S. State St., Suite 119

Jose Oliva of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and Rebecca Osland of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance will host a conversation on what it will take to build a resilient local food system.