by gotgreenseattle | Jan 31, 2012 | Access to Healty Foods
Ramata Diebate reflects on the action and reports back to the Got Green and the community… January 12, 2012 was the day! It was a crisp but sunny January morning as Got Green headed to Olympia to try to save the Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP)....
by gotgreenseattle | Nov 22, 2011 | Access to Healty Foods
Great job on the Chase action on Saturday! We delivered a big turkey and letter to the Othello branch manager demanding that Chase give back 10% of the fees they charge on EBT cards to save the Farmer’s Market Nutrition program for low-income women, children,...
by gotgreenseattle | Sep 20, 2011 | Access to Healty Foods, Women in the Green Economy
Ramata Diebate is a committed parent of two young children, Dominic and Ella. A 2007 graduate of the University of Washington, she volunteers at the Kent Family Court Parent-to-Parent Peer Advocates program. Since participating in an urban environmental education...
by gotgreenseattle | Sep 14, 2011 | Access to Healty Foods, Women in the Green Economy
Violet Lavatai and her son Russell live with her sister’s family in Seattle’s Skyway neighborhood. They had their own place until the recession hit and it cost Violet her job as a computer technician for a national gas station chain. Violet is passionate about...
by gotgreenseattle | Jun 15, 2011 | Access to Healty Foods, Women in the Green Economy
by Tammy Nguyen and Kristyn Joy. What has become clear to the Women in the Green Economy Project is that “Access to Healthy Foods,” just like “Green Jobs,” is as much an economic justice issue as an environmental one. You can’t open a newspaper or turn on the radio...
