See you soon! Here's some truth to chew on!

CRAVE gathered for one last Film Series and Discussion at WAPI in Columbia City before the national Rooted In Community Conference in Philly.  Aman, Donte, and stephanY leave tomorrow afternoon and arrive in Philly tomorrow evening, more than ready to represent the 206 along with FEEST leader Tammy, and are so excited to team up with Community 2 Community youth leader and RIC Advisory Committee member Joaquin for a powerful PNW caucus on ways to collaborate and proliferate!

In addition to sending off the crew in style with good inspiration and intention, we engaged in the "showing and telling" of MEAT the Truth that powerful and vividly lifts the veil behind factory farms as the #1 threat to/of global warming and asks why Al Gore didn't mention it, but once, in his renowned documentary An Inconvenient Truth.  Perhaps Gore found this important truth a bit too inconvenient for he himself to speak as an implicit consumer and complicit angus cattle rancher who directly benefits from the devastating fallout of the factory farm bomb.

Big thanks to Jen Chen from WAPI for the space, grace, and wisdom, to Kevin Tillman for the critical and clear perspectives and awesome documentaries and media we've visited thus far, and a great big thanks and welcome to the new adult ally/homie/artist and VOC, Coreena Reena to the crew who said she will most definitely be back for more!  according to word in the circle, stephanY's delicious robbin' hood meal might've had something to do with it.


stephanY served up some amazing mashed russet and yukon potatoes whipped and "creamed" with olive oil, hemp milk,  spanish yellow onions, sweet corn, cilantro, chile, pimienta, oregano, y sal topped with homecooked black beans with magical herbs and spices topped with freshly diced cebolla, and three varieties of tomatoes all culled from her summer job in the produce department at the local coop.  


The sharebacks, reflections, and discussion were powerful with folks showing profound critical analysis and understanding, deep compassion for all creatures and one another, and inspiring conviction to becoming more conscious and conscientious about what we C.R.A.V.E.; our choices when it comes to consumption, of food, and beyond... all are reconsidering their relationship to meat after seeing this film; either working to eliminate it from their diets all together, or at least limiting or decreasing their consumption.  It's also clear, as youth leader Ann Norton, a teacher to all, lovingly reminds us that we need community to remind us who we are and who we want to be.  This film, this movement, this commUNITY is all most definitely a must see indeed.

Stay tuned for more amazing films, food, and fun.

From Philly and Seattle!

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