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Food Podcast: Shining a light on food justice and social justice

Tribune-Review Courtesy of Emmai Alaquiva   TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. This week’s Food Podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s “food justice is social justice” initiative. The initiative is intended to create awareness about social inequality while educating organizations focused on ending racism and creating equality. One such organization, featured on the Food Podcast, is, The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Pittsburgh. APALA Pittsburgh is a national organization of AAPI union members and allies advancing worker, immigrant and civil rights. APALA member Judy Suh said the Pittsburgh chapter was created in 2019 to help immigrants with ICE activity in Pennsylvania.

Food Podcast: Pittsburgh food bank encourages sustainability, participation in Earth Day activities

Tribune-Review Courtesy of Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank Kurt Lindsay, community food connections coordinator at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank   TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. April is Food Waste Awareness Month, and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is highlighting ways it keeps sustainability at the forefront of its work. Kurt Lindsay is a community food connections coordinator at the food bank. He works on a three-person team to bring in food that may otherwise be thrown out. “Our community Food Connections team works with most of our food donors who donate food to our network of agencies. In 2020, we received about 11.4 million pounds of food, which is about 9.5 million meals,” Lindsay said.

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