Seed Capital to Abolish Food Deserts

Seed Capital to Abolish Food Deserts

From the Cyber Pen of Sasteh Meter Mosley

November 6th, 2011

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Over the last three years, I have worked with many of you individually to gain more Food Sovereignty for the residents of the East side of Kansas City. Now I would like to present a funding stream here in Kansas City that can provide the necessary start-up funds for farms, community food projects, stipends for workers, infrastructure for existing pantries, land acquisition, or any other reasonable expenses to wash away any obstacle to producing healthy foods. I am in Oakland, California for the Community Food Security Coalitions with thousands of other in the country that realize we have to take the next step in the Food Movement.

With the announcement that Aldi will open in 2011, It was suggested that the Food Desert in East Kansas City, MO will be eliminated. Unfortunately, the definition of having a grocery store within a mile (12 city blocks) is woefully inadequate to address the nutritional challenges of low-income and high health risk residents. Several organizations have convened groups to define solutions:

1. 2008 NBUF Food System meetings at Dubois Learning Center with Bill Grace (DLC), The Bey (Moorish Science Temple), Kenyattas (Seed Restaurant), and Sasteh Mosley (Amen Christ Temple)

2. 2009 Black Agenda Group present Jim Nunley Training on Health Care Foundation, Rosa James (NAACP), Carol Coe, Debra Mann (Emmanuel Community Center)

3. 2009 Stimulus Funds Economic Development Meetings on Creation of Green Jobs (Urban Farming), Marlon Hammonds and Sasteh Mosley, Craig Bland (Freedom Inc), Clyde McQueen (FEC), Ken Bacchus (Economic Development Chair BAG and Freedom Inc.), Carol Coe (Convener), 19 other Activists

4. 2010 Urban Farming Ordinance Chapter 88-312 and Food Policy Summit, (Beth Gothstein Organizer), City Council: Terry Riley, Sharon Sanders Brooks, Cindy Circo, Melba Curls, John Sharp, and Ed Ford (The ten who Voted in Favor of the Ordinance), KCCUA, GCFPC, Bad Seed, EMWOT, Green Acres and Amen Ankh Urban Farm

5. 2011 Urban Farm Movement, Will Allen Abolish the Food Desert Event by Green Acres, Chicken Ordinance KCMO, Green Acres Urban Farm and Research Project Aquaponics Program (KCMO, KCMSD, BEU), EMWOT Urban Farm initiatives and services (Real Estate and Land Acquisition for farming, Farm Tours, At-Risk-Youth with Green Careers, Tilling Services, Music CDs, Health Classes), Get Growing Kansas City (CultivateKC.org, KC Community Gardens, and Lincoln University) Adenike AmenRa (Amen Ankh- Urban Farms, Wheatgrass, Food Preservation Classes)

Let's all take the next step in this movement. As other movements plan to come into the East side of Kansas City, let’s make sure we continue to do the work to ensure that residents have the healthy, locally grown food they need to be successful. Let's get these applications in, help others submit them, pass them on to those who are willing to work for a healthier city. This seed capital can help those with tight budgets do something fun to help them feed themselves, support farm businesses that can hire people, and help existing organizations get into the "teach how to fish" side of feeding people.

Please forward this information to the gardeners, farmers, and community leaders you know. I can provide technical assistance, group presentations, and free workshops to assist in getting the applications complete.

Thanks,

Sasteh Mosley

CEO of EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost), (816) 281-7704)

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Monday, September 3, 2012

CLINT EASTWOOD AND THE INVISIBLE MAN

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe, nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasm. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surrounding, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me. Ralph Ellison... The Invisible Man- Richard Wright

This article reveals an ongoing divide and conquer rhetoric which is psychopathic racism as it's finest. Eastwood's support of the arrogance, hate and racism of the conservative right privileged, is a poor reflection of 1940s US society. Even the chair that was used in this side show act was small and simple to even further inject his venom, as if he is chastising a child sitting in a corner for "Time Out". Eastwood looked down from a podium to speak to an empty seat. To then to infer that our President would used profanity towards his republican opponents was even more debasing. Finally, to provoke that the president should be shot, when he used his movie quote: "Make My Day" would be considered treason if this were used by another persuasion. This reminds me of a comic satire article that was posted during President Obama's first term, where a caricature of a King Kong like Ape that was shot down by caucasian police officers. They made the captioned comments about "the stimulus "bill"(instead of Bear)- initiative of President Obama, rearing it's ugly head."

This shows how far the US conservatives will bite off their feet to spite their toes. The do-nothing strategy of the republican party not only undermines but destroys the economy of the US society. The Republican party is an amalgam of self serving corporations, who serve their own interest before the interests of the people who voted them in office. We know that the Bills, laws and legislations of this government are created for the service of these corporations.