by gotgreenseattle | Feb 22, 2012 | Access to Healty Foods
GREAT NEWS! The Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program MADE IT into the House Budget! The House Budget INCLUDES funding for WIC FMNP!!!!! The news we had received this morning was that it wasn’t in the budget but after all of the confusion, we have GREAT NEWS!...
by gotgreenseattle | Feb 21, 2012 | Access to Healty Foods, AHF-Take Action
By Violet Lavatai, Food Access Team Member On February 14, 2012 Women in Green took a second trip to Olympia to join Faith Action Now (FAN) in fighting for some of the programs that Governor Gregoire’s new budget proposals have put on the chopping block for the...
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 | Jan 27, 2012 | gj-videos, Green Jobs, Videos
Join the SE Seattle Jobs Campaign today! Why: The reconstruction of the Rainier Beach Community Center and Pool is being funded with $14 million in our tax dollars. But the contractors aren’t required to hire and train local workers to do the work. That...
by gotgreenseattle | Jan 17, 2012 | Green Jobs
Unemployed workers and community supporters are planning informational pickets at the site where the Rainier Beach Community Center and Pool are being rebuilt by CE &C, a Tacoma-based contractor. “We’re asking CE&C (the general contractor) to insure members of...
