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8 PLACE MATTERS: Building People Power to Tackle Fundamental Causes of Obesity in Cook County, Illinois
Pages 57-64

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... • CCPM's community partners include a labor organization that fights inequities in the food service industry, such as by advo cating for paid sick days for low-wage restaurant workers (Tendick-Matesanz)
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... Smedley introduced the panel of three speakers who shared their accounts of the Chicago-area case study: Jim Bloyd, leader of the CCPM team, who co-leads the community health improvement and planning process at the Cook County Department of Public Health; Felipe TendickMatesanz, programs coordinator at Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United in Chicago, which seeks to create a sustainable food economy; and Bonnie Rateree, a community advocate who leads the Human Action Community Organization in Harvey, Illinois, and is school board vice president for Public School District 147.
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... Other data show that African American ninth graders in suburban Cook County reported eating less fruit, fewer green salads, and fewer carrots in the previous week compared with other racial groups (Cook County Department of Public Health, 2010)
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... He hoped to "plant a little seed" to make listeners realize that "a lot of the conversation we have been having today is actually a human rights conversation, versus just a public health conversation."
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... . Other major problems include rampant labor violations, consistent failures to ensure occupational health and safety and public health, and wage stagnation (Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, 2010, 2011)
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... Rateree is a school board member in the same school district where she was a student growing up. Between the time she was in kindergarten and the end of eighth grade, Rateree noted that the racial makeup of Harvey changed substantially, with African Americans increasing to 80 percent of the population (Cook County Department of Public Health, 2008)
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... Meanwhile, CCPM's steering committee had observed that labor in the food system often was absent from discussions about healthy food, but recognized that the people who produce and harvest food and who cook, prepare, and serve it to customers in restaurants "need to have the same ability to feed themselves and their family nutritious foods," Bloyd said. So CCPM decided to pursue collaborations with labor, and ROC United was a perfect partner.
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