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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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PVGrows Forum</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Saturday,
April 7, 9:15am-4:15pm</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Gateway
City Arts, Holyoke</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Join
the</span><span
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</span><span
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Network</span></a></span><span
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to learn from local and regional efforts and craft
strategies for action on the urgent and timely topics of
immigration, food access, and land access through a series
of speakers and discussions. Keynote speakers from</span><span
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</span><span
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Migrant Justice</span></a></span><span
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will discuss their</span><span
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</span><span
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with Dignity Campaign</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,
which calls on corporations to take responsibility for the
farmworker rights abuses in their supply chains. Workshops
and discussions will focus on: approaches to supporting
food system workers in the Pioneer Valley during this time
of heightened stress and fear for foreign-born residents;
food access, with an emphasis on community responses to
the suspension of the Healthy Incentives Program and the
threats to SNAP in the Farm Bill reauthorization process;
and the challenges of land access for urban, rural, and
immigrant farmers, recognizing the long history of
enslavement and racial discrimination that created and
maintain patterns of land and wealth ownership.</span><span
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href="http://www.pvgrows.net/2018-pvgrows-forum/"><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Register
today!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Join
the PVGrows Network on April 7 in Holyoke for the 2018
PVGrows Forum! Attendees will dig deep on the urgent and
timely topics of immigration, food access, and land access
through a series of speakers and discussions. Keynote
address from Vermont’s Migrant Justice and their campaign
to call on corporations to take responsibility for the
farmworker rights abuses in their supply chains. </span><a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Margaret
Christie, Special Projects Director</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Community
Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)</span><span
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Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373</span><span
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href="http://www.buylocalfood.org/">www.buylocalfood.org</a></span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(413)
665-7100</span><span
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665-7101 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Strengthening
Farms and Communities Since 1993<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CISA
is celebrating 25 years! <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.buylocalfood.org/about/cisa-celebrates-25-years/"><span
style="color:windowtext">Learn more.</span></a></span></b><span
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