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Statement from People's Grocery on SB1070:

People's Grocery is part of a larger movement for social justice in Oakland, California, and throughout the country. We could not let the enactment of SB1070 in Arizona pass without comment. Today, certain parts of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 go into effect. The law targets people of color, requires police to inquire into the immigration status of people based on “reasonable suspicion,” and criminalizes any undocumented person seeking to find work (one part claims that day laborers create traffic hazards). It also allows warrantless searches of suspected undocumented people. In full, the bill was set to cause the mass profiling and harassment of an entire group of people, based on the color of their skin.

People’s Grocery opposes the enforcement of SB1070 in Arizona, and supports the injunction that blocked most of the bill. It is unfortunate, but no surprise that Arizona has also banned Ethnic Studies in Arizona schools, declaring them as spaces that teach hate and intolerance. Criminalizing a group of people is terrible enough, but adding a wholesale erasure of the stories and cultural sharing of so many Arizonans based on country of origin or race reveals the depths of institutional racism. The foundations of public education and safe space in community are being ripped away from people of all races and ethnicities in Arizona, and we stand in solidarity with those who say we must resist and speak out.

Today is an international day of action against SB1070, with demonstrations taking place across the world. We will be participating in the march and demonstration in San Francisco. Safe communities are not made through the institutionalization of racism, or the criminalization of our neighbors. Safe communities are created through building health, wealth and self-determination, and that is the world People’s Grocery will continue to build.

Press Kit

"Battling Structural Racism: An Conversation with People's Grocery" - Executive Director Nikki Henderson is interviwed by Aimee Allison for Oakland Seen and KPFA Radio. (May, 2010)

Awarded "Human Rights Heroes at Home" - 2009 Green Alternatives Honoree

"People's Grocery Dishes it up for Underserved in West Oakland" by Caitlin Donohue, Dec. 3, 2009. San Francisco Bay Guardian Arts and Culture Blog post.

"Urban Farmers Provide Nourishment in Low-Income Neighborhoods: by Krishna Ramanujan. November 2009. Article appeared in "JustGarciaHill - A Virtual Community for Minorities in Science".

"Pricing, Access, and the Untapped Consumer" by Patty Mamula for the Capital Press. June 18, 2009. Information in the article is taken from a panel featuring Brahm Ahmadi at the Organic Summit held June 4-5, 2009 in Stevenson, WA.

"What is Food Justice? video by the Nikki Thomas Network. April 2009 (Bottom video on the page.)

Oprah's Angel Network "The Quest for Food Justice" . February 2009

Kitchen Sync Podcast interview of Brahm Ahmadi by Kate Manchester "Feeding the Masses - The People's Grocery". January 29, 2009

Amazing Multimedia site "The People's Grocery Freshens Up Oakland with Produce" with slideshows, interviews, interactive tour of West Oakland created by a group of students from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and Knight Digital Media Center. January 16, 2009

Natural Foods Merchandiser: Top 40 under 40 Brahm Ahmadi

Feb 9, 2009

http://naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com/tabId/66/itemId/3157/40-Under-40-Brahm-Ahmadi.aspx

Takeout: People’s Grocery Provides Food For All

Hyphen Magazine, March 17, 2009

http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2009/03/takeout-peoples-grocery-or-yum.html

Brahm Ahmadi Tackles Food Inequity and Brings Oakland People's Grocery

Sundance Channel, 2009

http://www.sundancechannel.com/thegoodfight/projects/brahm_ahmadi

Soil to stoops: Local food movement hits Oakland

Mother Nature Network (MNN)

http://www.mnn.com/food/farms-gardens/stories/soil-to-stoops-local-food-movement-hits-oakland

Press Kit 2007-2008

Click on our Press Kit to see People's Grocery in the media 2007-08

People's Grocery Media Spotlights

April 2009 Local journalist Nikki Thomas interview of Brahm Ahmadi on the topic of "What is Food Justice? and what is People's Grocery's doing to give West Oakland access to healthy food.

January 29, 2009 Kitchen Sync Podcast interview of Brahm Ahmadi by Kate Manchester "Feeding the Masses - The People's Grocery".

January 16, 2009 Multimedia site with slideshows, interviews, interactive tour of West Oakland created by a group of students from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and Knight Digital Media Center.

October 4, 2008 article in SFGate.com entitled "Farmer tenants work San Francisco-owned land" on the Agriculture Park in Sunol where People's Grocery farms 3 acres.

September 2008: Sustain Lane, the web's largest guide to sustainable living, featured an article on People's Grocery called "The Grocery Gap"

Article in Mother Jones Magazine about People's Grocery's "Slow Dinner" fundraiser at Camino Restaurant on Augiust 31, 2008.

People's Grocery and Green for All Interview.

June 28th 2008 - An interiew on KPFA's "Morning Talks" with Brahm Ahmadi of People's Grocery and Parin Shah of Green for All. The interview begins at 36minutes and 50 seconds of the audio file.

May 2008 --- A 35 minute interview on the Sundance Channel's The Good Fight

May 2008 - KRON 4 article on urban farming and People's Grocery on Bay area Backroads

April 2008 -- CNBC feature on People's Grocery: Growing Green