FAACTS Snacks

The Food and Agriculture Action Coalition Toward Sovereignty (FAACTS) was formed in 2022 when 30 local partner organizations identified the need to protect citywide food access programming, and ensure consistent and equitable access to high quality, local, fresh, and culturally-inclusive food and nutrition services in San Francisco. Our mission is to build a just, sustainable, and holistic food system, ensuring we are neighborhood-based and coordinated across every district in SF, with the goal of nourishing our community in a way that is sincere, healthy, empowering, specific, culturally relevant, humble, and abundant.

Since its inception, FAACTS has achieved significant milestones, including:

• Preserving $75 million in funding for citywide, community-based, BIPOC-led food access programs
• Organizing the first-ever SF Food Action Summit where over 225 attendees informed co-creating a good food system vision, priorities, and solutions. See here for the program.
• Hosted advocacy trainings to empower community on the city budget process and empowered hospitality industry workers through a Worker’s Rights Training co-hosted with The Women’s Building and Trabajadores Unidos
• Every year, nourishing over 70,000 San Franciscans collectively with culturally appropriate, local and high quality meals, groceries, and fresh produce
• Directly supporting leadership of and direct purchasing from local Black and Brown small farmers and producers
• Performed research and landscape analysis on other cities and counties making major strides toward the right to food

These achievements mark just the beginning of our journey.

At this FAACTS Snacks meeting, we will focus on:

• Advocating for a food sovereignty vision and plan for San Francisco and in the city budget
• Building out citywide Mutual Aid & Infrastructure efforts to get us through a hungry year given inflation and the cost of food
• Highlighting policies at the state level that reflect and support SF's food priorities

There will also be opportunities to write postcards to elected officials urging them to prioritize food sovereignty in their budget, and screenprint your own merch! Please bring your own t-shirts or tote bags to print.

We hope to see you there and look forward to building a good food system together! #Snaction

*Light snacks and drinks will be provided.

Cost to Attend

It is free to attend the event, but $5 donations to help cover the costs of the event are welcomed.

FAACTS Values

We believe our food system can only be changed through radical collaboration. We reject the scarcity mindset that pits organizations against each other in a competition for resources and funding in favor of embracing abundance. We affirm that we are responsible to one another, that we are connected to the land and to rural communities who labor for our city’s benefit, and we affirm that active participation and engagement are necessary for systems change work.

Our values guide our actions and decision making to establish healthy, resilient communities with equitable access to nourishing, culturally appropriate food, land, and control over their means of production.

• Access: From sourcing to distribution to food waste management, food access must be a holistic, non-transactional and dignified experience for all, rooted in communal and individual autonomy across communities.

• Justice: Food systems issues are a human rights issue. Solutions need to address systemic inequities to empower individual agency and community-led resilience and accountability.

• Racial equity: Informed by our understanding of the historical and systemic racial inequities of San Francisco, our food coalition centers racial equity by ensuring decision making, investment, and leadership are representative/inclusive of communities most affected.

• Sovereignty: Our coalition supports and advances an interconnected, community-centered, accessible, and abundant value chain that fosters agency, dignity, and health for San Francisco.

• Sustainability: Bringing about a food system that is inclusive, community-led and participatory without the exploitation of people, land, or the environment.
• Decolonization: We acknowledge that our food system exists within capitalism, and we aim to decouple the profit motive inherent in colonial/white culture from food. Food is essential. We work to be in reciprocity and respect with our food, the land it comes from, and the Indigenous people who are the land's true stewards.

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