To limit the size of our newsletters, our Spanish and English content will now be posted separately.  If you prefer reading our newsletter in Spanish, click here.

Para una lectura más fácil, decidimos separar las versiones en inglés y español de nuestro boletín. Si prefiere leer nuestro boletín en español, por favor acceda a nuestro sitio de boletines.  

Each month, we will post the link to Spanish content at the top of the newsletter. To share out the Spanish version, please share the link to the newsletter site.

Cada mes, publicaremos el enlace al material en español en la parte superior del boletín. Para compartir la versión en español, por favor comparta el enlace al sitio de boletines.

Thank you for another fantastic Food Justice Festival!

This year’s festival included:

If you connected with one of our partners and want to learn more about them, you can view the full partner list here.

We’d also like to thank our sponsors for their support to make this event a success!

We greatly appreciate all the partners, volunteers, and community members that made the event a success. Thank you for your support to engage in community-building. We can’t wait for next year! 

We invite you to participate in a candidate forum with the Aurora Ward 1 City Council candidates, Monday, October 6th! This is an opportunity to learn more about the candidates and their positions on issues that are important to this northwest Aurora community. Interpretation, food, and childcare will be provided.

Candidate forums give us the chance to hear from candidates, ask them questions, and make informed decisions for the future of our northwest Aurora community.

If you are registered to vote and live within the boundaries of Ward 1:

Voting for city council candidates and attending candidate forums is important because our local leaders make decisions that directly impact our daily lives such as housing, food access, safety, and more.

In 2024, the City of Aurora and PUMA launched a project to create an economic development plan for the East Colfax corridor in Aurora. This plan is called the Colfax Community Vision & Action Plan. In July, the city released the draft plan in English and Spanish, which includes recommendations to create two new entities: a Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and a Community Development Corporation (CDC).

At the end of July, Aurora City Council voted to put two questions on the November 4th mail ballot regarding the DDA. Eligible voters will be able to vote on:

Ballots are out October 10th!

If you live, own property, or represent a business within the proposed DDA boundary and you are registered to vote in Colorado, you are an eligible voter for the DDA election!

Here are a few things you can do right now:

This November, Colorado voters can ensure continued access to free, nutritious meals made with quality ingredients for all students in public schools by voting YES on Propositions LL and MM!

Proposition LL: 

Proposition MM: 

Here’s a reminder of what’s at stake:

Without LL and MM, Healthy School Meals for All could end for many schools beginning in January 2026, putting students’ nutrition, learning, and health at risk. 

Join us to connect with others in the community and discuss what access to fresh, culturally relevant, nutritious food means to you!

This year Boston P8, Aurora West, and Crawford Elementary will be hosting a joint Trunk-or-Treat on Thursday October 30th from 4:00-5:30 at Aurora West College Prep (10100 E 13th Ave, Aurora, CO 80010). 

We are so excited to join this first joint community event with these schools! Stop by to meet the Food Justice League (AKA: superhero veggies), connect with community resources for families, enjoy fun activities, and more!

Food Justice NW Aurora is building a multicultural, intergenerational, and intersectional movement for food justice and food sovereignty to transform our local food system in northwest Aurora, Colorado. But what does this mean in practice? This month, we’re focusing on the term Food Sovereignty.

Based on the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance’s definition, food sovereignty is a growing and powerful bottom-up movement, led by farmers, Indigenous peoples, and landless workers most affected by hunger and poverty. This movement goes beyond access to food, and calls for communities to reclaim power in the food system by rebuilding relationships with the land, food providers, and consumers.

First introduced by La Via Campesina in 1996, it is rooted in global struggles over food, land, water, and livelihoods. Today, as large corporations continue to make record profits, millions of families, farmers, and Indigenous communities continue to face food insecurity, land loss, and threats to their survival.

While corporations and governments profit, food sovereignty focuses on people and communities, based on the following principles:

As we reflect on food sovereignty and the global struggles for land, food, and livelihoods, it is especially important that we take a moment to honor Indigenous People’s Day, October 13th. This day is not only about recognition but about truth-telling and accountability even beyond this date. The land we call Aurora has long been home to Indigenous Peoples such as the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Peoples, whose traditions of growing, gathering, and protecting and honoring the land and food remain vital to how we think about food justice and food sovereignty today. Honoring their history means acknowledging the displacement and harm indigenous communities have endured, while also celebrating their resilience, wisdom, and leadership in the food sovereignty movement. Their rich knowledge and stewardship of land and food systems are at the core of food sovereignty. 

Click the link below to learn more about Indigenous People’s Day and how you can celebrate.