WCC's 29th Annual Meeting

Featuring

Frances Moore Lappé

Doubletree Hotel, Grand Junction, Colorado
October 3, 2009

WCC is excited to welcome Frances Moore Lappé as our keynote speaker on October 3. Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 16 books.

Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered “the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined” [JM Hirsch, Associated Press]. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé.

Her most recent book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, was awarded the Nautilus Gold/“Best in Small Press” award. Ms. Lappé will be autographing copies of this book at our reception at 4:30 pm, as well as the 20th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet. She will then take center stage at 6:00 pm in the Doubletree Hotel's ballroom.

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Other Details - Other highlights of the day will include our annual Business Meeting starting at 1:30 pm, a catered reception (with a cash bar) at 4:30 pm, and our ever-popular Silent Auction.

This year's featured auctionitems include a guided fishing trip into the Flattops with Winterhawk Outfitters and a workshop with renowned Colorado photographer John Fielder.

Tickets for the day are $25 for WCC members, $15 for students, and $35 for non-members. If you register now at the non-member price, you can receive a complimentary membership in Western Colorado Congress. If you are only able to join us for Lappé's speech, admission will be $10 at the door.

For more information or to reserve your tickets, call (970) 256-7650.

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“Some of the twentieth century’s most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women – Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day – who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them.”

-- Washington Post