The Alliance for Healthy
and Responsible Grocery Stores is a coalition of community, faith and labor organizations, working to insure access to healthy food, good jobs and a safe environment in the grocery industry.
Senator and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama calls on TESCO's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement with the Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores.
Click Here to read his letter to TESCO CEO Tim Mason.
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Blue Ribbon Report Calls For City-Wide Policy To Raise Standards In Grocery Industry
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Los Angeles – A Blue Ribbon Commission, convened by the Alliance for Healthy and
Responsible Grocery Stores, released a report this morning urging City leaders to
take charge in remedying a growing divide in how the grocery industry treats underserved
and affluent communities. The Commission, comprised of leaders from the political,
development, health and faith communities, gleaned its findings from public testimony
taken at a May hearing, where community residents, industry experts, academics,
workers and clergy described a looming grocery crisis in Los Angeles.
The Commission offers several recommendations to city and grocery industry leaders,
including a direct challenge to generate a policy creating uniform standards for
grocery operations in Los Angeles. “What is consistently clear, the deeper you look,
is that this city can ill afford to sit idly by as this highly dynamic industry
evolves in increasingly inequitable ways,” contends Reverend Norm Johnson, Pastor
at First New Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and Co-Chair of the
Commission. “The stakes are too high for there not to be some city-wide standards.”
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Reverend Lewis Logan and Alliance members urge investors to reconsider their support of TESCO |
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