United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy.

The growing movement to eat locally in one county in Washington State's Puget Sound region is documented in "Eating Locally in Pierce County" (Kendle Bjelland and Joseph La Sac, 2009), a high-quality 34-minute video.[1]  --  Univ. of Puget Sound Prof. David N. Balaam, co-author of International Political Economy (4th ed. 2007), explains the global context of a global food system that sacrifices food security to the pursuit of corporate profit; then the filmmakers portray local producers, consumers, and the farmers' markets that link them, as well as groups like the Tacoma Food Co-op Steering Committee, which is working toward the creation of a local food co-op in Tacoma....