• Holiday Season and New Year Greetings for a Renewed Spirit Working to Protect Health and the Environment

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  • Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes “Threatened” Status for Monarch, after EPA Failure to Stop Harmful Pesticides

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  • Deadly Poisoning of Dozens of Children in South Africa Highlights Global Pesticide Threat to Human Life  

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  • Investigative Report Finds Canada’s Reversal of Neonicotinoid Ban Influenced by Bayer/Monsanto

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  • Study Links Numerous Chemical Families of Pesticides to Endocrine Disrupting Effects, Including Obesity

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  • California Asked To Put an End to a Deadly Fumigant Used on Food Eaten Nationwide

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  • EPA’s Registration of Herbicide under New Framework Puts Endangered Species at Elevated Risk, Advocates Say

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  • Review Cites Memory and Learning Impairments; Children, Workers, and Nontarget Organisms at Risk

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  • New European Union Organic Regulations Increase Rigor of Import Standards

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  • September 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2010 Posted on September 28, 2010 Letter from Mozambique I promised to share this as soon as I was able : the English translation of a statement from the Mozambican National Peasants Union More , below the fold . Continue reading Letter from Mozambique” Tweet Posted on September 25, 2010 September 23, 2010 Speculation 101 One of the reasons I thought Michael Moore’s Capitalism , A Love Story was a career highlight is because of clips like this , in which our hapless hero tries to find out what a derivative actually . is Continue reading Speculation 101” Tweet Posted on September 24, 2010 September 23, 2010 Analysing

  • June 2024 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2024 Posted on June 23, 2024 June 23, 2024 Agricultural Subsidy Transition Bonds You can tell I’m looking for excuses not to knuckle down and finish my next book project , because I’m catching up with posting things here . I’m very pleased to have put together a bit of research on the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming programme with Vijay Kumar Thallam , just out in Nature Food The reason we wrote it is prompted in part by the Indian Government’s PM-PRANAM policy , a plan to wean India off industrial fertilizer imports . Continue reading Agricultural Subsidy Transition Bonds” Tweet Posted on June 23, 2024 June

  • April 2024 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2024 Posted on April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024 The Dalit Panthers Manifesto It’s harder to track down the Dalit Panthers’ manifesto than it should be . Here’s an attempt to fix that , reproducing the text from The Dalit Panthers and Their Manifesto . 8221 Religion and Society 22, no . 2 1975 24-38. Continue reading The Dalit Panthers Manifesto” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times

  • March 2024 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2024 Posted on March 19, 2024 March 19, 2024 Hunger , Debt and Interest Rates The awful choice between feeding the hungry or paying creditors isn†t just one faced by indebted households . Countries are in similar straits . Hunger is both a fiscal issue and a monetary one . I put together this short piece for Nature Food , on how to understand what that means , and how the debt crisis is making global hunger far worse Continue reading Hunger , Debt and Interest Rates” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel

  • August 2023 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2023 Posted on August 15, 2023 August 15, 2023 The Grammar of a Future New International Economic Order I’m on the road for an exciting new book project . It’s hard to imagine posting with even less frequency here , but to make up for an absence of New Things , here’s a piece I wrote for the good folk at Progressive International which I forgot to share a little while back . If nothing else , I hope the opening quote , from Stefano Harney and Fred Moten points you to their incredible work Continue reading The Grammar of a Future New International Economic Order” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty

  • June 2023 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2023 Posted on June 22, 2023 June 22, 2023 The Ants The Grasshopper : The Series One of the reasons I’ve been neglecting my writing here , and in the academic world , is because I’ve been exploring new ways of sharing and connecting over ideas with folk outside the worlds in which I usually write . Continue reading The Ants The Grasshopper : The Series” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York

  • May 2023 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2023 Posted on May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 Save Tierras Milperas I don’t often post here but it’s not often that I think that letter-writing can make a difference . This is one such occasion . Continue reading Save Tierras Milperas” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig

  • February 2023 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2023 Posted on February 22, 2023 February 22, 2023 EPA Pesticide approvals 1975-2022 It has been so long since I updated this site , it’s a little beyond embarrassing . The reasons are many : the promotional tour for book and film , teaching two courses , plotting a lot of writing with IPES etc . But now that I’m working on a big solo book more on that in the months to come I’m falling back into the rhythms of research and writing that once used to make maintaining a blog both viable and useful . Watch this space for more . Continue reading EPA Pesticide approvals 1975-2022” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave

  • September 2021 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2021 Posted on September 23, 2021 September 23, 2021 Ants , Grasshoppers , and Agroecology The fine people at the Scientific American have released an article explaining agroecology in time for today’s UN Food Systems summit . In it , I talk about my time in Malawi working with Soils , Food and Healthy , Communities and share a few ideas that we couldn’t cover in the film The Ants The Grasshopper Continue reading Ants , Grasshoppers , and Agroecology” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events

  • July 2021 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2021 Posted on July 23, 2021 March 30, 2022 Inflamed : The Animation Continue reading Inflamed : The Animation” Tweet Posted on July 1, 2021 July 1, 2021 A quick note on Donald Rumsfeld Before he was a war criminal , Donald Rumsfeld was a common chauvinist , of the variety easily found in government today . My friend DBS sends this observation from Nick Kotz’ Let Them Eat Promises Continue reading A quick note on Donald Rumsfeld” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes

  • June 2021 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2021 Posted on June 3, 2021 June 3, 2021 Moving Mountains Continue reading Moving Mountains” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning Scott James The Commoner The Dead End Diet The Virtual Stoa Triple Crisis US Food Policy Vegan Freak Women In And Beyond the

  • May 2021 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2021 Posted on May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021 ResignModi The Indian government has done all kinds of things in the name of modernisation . To get food rations and social grants , for instance , Indians have to submit to a state of the art biometric scanning system . When farmworkers fingertips are rubbed away through manual labour , they render themselves unidentifiable to machines , and are denied benefits Witness , progress . Continue reading ResignModi” Tweet Posted on May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021 How do you change someone’s mind about the most important thing in the world About a decade ago , I started working on a film project

  • February 2021 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2021 Posted on February 23, 2021 February 23, 2021 Against Philanthropy I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk with Rupa Marya and Anna Lappé at the 2021 Oxford Real Farming Conference . Here’s our take on philanthropy , and what’s wrong with it . Continue reading Against Philanthropy” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food

  • March 2020 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2020 Posted on March 20, 2020 September 23, 2021 For Immediate Release : Family Food Producers And Anti-Hunger Advocates Urge Support For Local Supply Chains In Next Stimulus Bill NB Reposted here since it doesn’t seem to be available online elsewhere . yet FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : March 20, 2020 Continue reading For Immediate Release : Family Food Producers And Anti-Hunger Advocates Urge Support For Local Supply Chains In Next Stimulus Bill” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj

  • April 2019 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2019 Posted on April 9, 2019 September 30, 2019 A Green New Deal for Agriculture Here’s a piece run by Jacobin written by Jim Goodman and me , on the history of the New Deal , and how it matters for rural America today . Agriculture policy in the original New Deal sprang from a heady mix of class struggle and uneasy alliances . The Green New Deal will have to stitch together a different coalition that can challenge the dominant mode of agriculture and create a more just food . system Continue reading A Green New Deal for Agriculture” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for :

  • October 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2018 Posted on October 8, 2018 The New Columbus Here in the US , it’s Columbus day” , a federally recognized holiday Jason W Moore and I take a dim view of Columbus   We’re sympathetic with the move to rename today Indigenous peoples day but , if that doesn’t suit , we’ve got an alternative suggestion Continue reading The New Columbus” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black

  • August 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2018 Posted on August 27, 2018 Land struggles are God’s way of teaching racists geography and history and current affairs . Here’s a recent article I wrote for The Guardian Continue reading Land struggles are God’s way of teaching racists geography Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food

  • May 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2018 Posted on May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 Chicken , for Christ’s sake Below , an adaptation of part of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things , written with Jason W Moore , published in The Guardian If you’ve read the book , do look out for the post-publication addendum of the story of Oklahoma-based Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery . CAAIR was set up by chicken executives so that survivors of the opioid epidemic might pray by day and work on the understaffed night-shift at slaughterhouses . Do read the full story , as researched by the Center for Investigative Reporting And , meantime , here’s the excerpt as

  • March 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2018 Posted on March 20, 2018 March 21, 2018 Terrorism for trolls : A note from Austin Hell Broke Loose” . Text from newspaper headline accompanying reports of the Servant Girl Annihilator”, Fort Worth Gazette , 26 December 1885 Continue reading Terrorism for trolls : A note from Austin” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global

  • November 2017 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2017 Posted on November 2, 2017 March 7, 2018 Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds Get a copy of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things which I wrote with Jason W Moore , at your local independent bookstore in the US and Canada If you must , here’s the Amazon link I’ll get a referral fee which I’ll give to La Via Campesina We’re committed to making sure these ideas spread far and wide . The book’s introduction , in which we lay out our argument at some length , is available for free here Continue reading Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list

  • March 2017 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2017 Posted on March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Practice Reparation I was asked to contribute to  Letters to a Young Farmer  a collection patterned on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet For inspiration , I re-read America’s poet laureate of the soil , Wendell Berry . His 1973 Manifesto : The Mad Farmer Liberation Front is very good . Its last line : Continue reading Practice Reparation” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American

  • November 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2016 Posted on November 11, 2016 November 11, 2016 Developing the Syllabus for an Agroecology Course Bob St Peter , activist and farmer in northern Maine , is working on developing a syllabus for an agroecology course .   Miguel Altieri sends these two  sources to help . What else can Bob look at to develop his own curriculum Please share your ideas in the comments and if you want to join the school , more details are below , and you can contact Bob  at  Agroecologymaine gmail.com Continue reading Developing the Syllabus for an Agroecology Course” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're

  • July 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2016 Posted on July 11, 2016 Ask Not What Refugees Can Do For Us Co-written with Eric Tang , and published by Reuters on World Refugee Day , 2016.  Today is World Refugee Day , the most contentious one in recent memory . Refugee resettlement once enjoyed bipartisan support in the United States , but in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Orlando there are few issues more polarizing in this election year . At the center of the storm are Syrian refugees fleeing persecution , many of them making the deadly passage across the Mediterranean . Fear-mongering conservatives demand that all Syrians be kept out of the United

  • March 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2016 Posted on March 16, 2016 March 15, 2016 Message to FLOTUS : Let’s All Move My comrade here at the LBJ School Erin Lentz wrote this with me , to welcome Michelle Obama to Austin . Republished here from the Austin American-Statesman   Continue reading Message to FLOTUS : Let’s All Move” Tweet Posted on March 9, 2016 March 8, 2016 TEDMED : The Barefoot Technologists Last year , I gave a TEDMED talk about some of the people we’ve been following at the Soils , Food and Healthy Communities Project in Northern Malawi . Here’s the talk , and accompanying post , courtesy of TEDMED . See more of the footage at the

  • January 2015 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2015 Posted on January 28, 2015 April 29, 2015 Ida B Wells , Science Fiction Writer Ida B Wells deserves her place in the canon of journalism and social change . In the science fiction , not so much . I found her A Story of 1900” , written in 1886, while digging for other things . It may not be a classic , but not only was it written two years before Edward Bellamy’s epochal Looking Backward but the story lives and breathes Octavia Butler’s thoughts on the use of science fiction for black people Continue reading Ida B Wells , Science Fiction Writer” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're

  • September 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2014 Posted on September 29, 2014 April 29, 2015 A Window in the Cathedral of the Green Revolution When the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations announced it was going to take agroecology sufficiently seriously to hold a conference on it , reasonable people were pleased , and sceptical . Pleased because the FAO has been agnostic about agroecology’s scientific developments in addressing problems that the FAO itself is charged with tackling . Sceptical because the reason’s for the FAO’s historical reticence are hardly going to be fixed by a conference . Nonetheless , the great and the good from

  • August 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2014 Posted on August 29, 2014 March 9, 2016 How to Be Curious About the Green Revolution Social media is alive with folks’ thoughts on Michael Specter’s recent New Yorker piece As the controversy fades , I worry that people will be left with three ideas . Continue reading How to Be Curious About the Green Revolution” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook

  • June 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2014 Posted on June 18, 2014 April 29, 2015 Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food and the Survival of the Species While I slog away at the Generation Food project , here’s more from the occasional series of pamphlets and books from the history of the food movement a 1988 lecture by the excellent Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food , and the Survival of the Species With thanks , as ever , to DBS , and to Joan . Continue reading Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food and the Survival of the Species” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by

  • April 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2014 Posted on April 19, 2014 April 29, 2015 Thoughts on Land Reform Summits in San Francisco In San Francisco , from April 25-28, 400 people from across the country and around the world gathered to discuss an awkward problem – land reform in America . Land reform is a loaded term , one that reeled conference participants†imaginations toward the antics of Third World dictators and communist zealots . It†s hard to conceive a more un-American activity than thinking about an alternative to private property . Yet here were the Friends of the Earth next to the NAACP west coast region , alongside the Archdiocese of Kansas

  • March 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2014 Posted on March 10, 2014 April 29, 2015 Cyberspace   Whole Earth Summit    I’ll  be talking with Nikki Silvestri about  Love , Purpose , the Food Movement , 5:15-6:15pm . EDT   Click here to register for FREE Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning

  • February 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2014 Posted on February 1, 2014 April 29, 2015 People Land Magazine , vols 1 and 2 I mentioned yesterday that Pete Seeger’s views appeared in People Land . I’m not sure that it’s as easy to find land reform magazines as it used to be . Were it not for a friend , DBS , I’d not have come across them either . Continue reading People Land Magazine , vols 1 and 2” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten

  • January 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2014 Posted on January 28, 2014 April 29, 2015 Pete Seeger Presente Pete Seeger had a thing or two to say about private property , which is why his thoughts were included in the US land reform magazine yes , there used to be such a thing People Land You’ll find the page below in Volume 1 Number 2 Winter 1974. Continue reading Pete Seeger Presente Tweet Posted on January 17, 2014 April 29, 2015 MLK’s Radicalism Muted By MLK Archives sponsors : JP Morgan Chase Co . : Photo Jim Hinton , courtesy of Norma Rogers Carnegie Hall Archives This Martin Luther King day , why not celebrate by reading one of MLK’s last speeches , the

  • November 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2013 Posted on November 27, 2013 April 29, 2015 Beyond Foodworkers’ Karmic Tip Jar This Thanksgiving Via the Huffington Post Thanksgiving is an odd holiday for those of us born outside the U.S . I studied it for the citizenship test , where it’s an answer to the question  Name two national U.S . holidays . 8221  But I never managed to shake the feeling that I was doing it wrong . This year , though , I’ll be getting the hang of it thanks to a lot of people who won’t be at my . table Continue reading Beyond Foodworkers’ Karmic Tip Jar This Thanksgiving” Tweet Posted on November 21, 2013 April 29, 2015 Food Sovereignty : A

  • October 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2013 Posted on October 15, 2013 April 29, 2015 Kent , OH October 22 at 7:30 p.m . in the Kent Student Center in Room 306. More details here Tweet Posted on October 15, 2013 April 29, 2015 Ithaca , NY A History of Good Bad Ideas to Feed the World 160 Mann , Cornell University 7pm , Wednesday , October 16th Sponsored by the Food Collective Tweet Posted on October 9, 2013 April 29, 2015 Going against Duflo In the past , I’ve linked to pieces that challenge the ethically untroubled , and systemically timid work of  Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo , of Poor Economics fame . If you’re unfamiliar with their work , the quick

  • September 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2013 Posted on September 25, 2013 April 29, 2015 San Francisco CA Wed , Oct 2 2013 6:30pm Finding Justice , Health , Security and Sustainability in Good Food Jason , Mark  Editor,  Earth Island Journal Co-manager , Alemany Farm Nick Saul CEO , Community Food Centres Canada Author,  The Stop Raj Patel Activist Author,  Stuffed and Starved Nikki Henderson Executive Director , People’s Grocery Continue reading San Francisco CA” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes

  • August 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2013 Posted on August 1, 2013 April 29, 2015 New Haven , CT Food Sovereignty : A Critical Dialogue September 14–15, 2013 Yale University More details here Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search for : Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning Scott James The Commoner The Dead End Diet The Virtual Stoa

  • June 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2013 Posted on June 12, 2013 The G8’s Diet Coke Plus” Politics This piece was originally posted at The Guardian Continue reading The G8’s Diet Coke Plus” Politics” Tweet Posted on June 7, 2013 Wendy’s Promises are as Empty as a Fast Food Calorie This piece was originally posted at The Huffington Post Wendy’s , the world’s third largest burger joint , is having a makeover . From being Wendy’s Old Fashioned Burgers” we’re now told it’s just Wendy’s . 8221 The ginger-haired befreckled Wendy remains on the logo , though in their TV spots she’s a hipper twentysomething . Yet behind the new facade lie some very old-fashioned .

  • March 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2013 Posted on March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013 It has been 100 days . Where is Sombath That’s what I’ll be asking on Monday , when I call the Lao Embassy in Washington on Monday between 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:30 Eastern time on 202 332-6416 7. It has been 100 days Where is Sombath And then I’ll send em this fax on 202 332-4923. Continue reading It has been 100 days . Where is Sombath Tweet Posted on March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013 I say Tomahto , you say . exploitation From the Huffington Post Continue reading I say Tomahto , you say exploitation . 8221 Tweet Posted on March 4, 2013 The Misanthropocene This essay first

  • January 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2013 Posted on January 30, 2013 Last words on l’affaire Lynas Three last things on the Mark Lynas story some of which is reprised by the CBC here First , thanks to Daniel Foodieana Jones” Bowman Simon for observing that I have , contrary to a previous statement heard of Mark Lynas . I’ve even cited him , in an academic piece on food rebellions Although his original Selling Starvation’ piece in CorporateWatch magazine isn’t on the original site , the good folk at the Internet Archive have it here Continue reading Last words on l’affaire Lynas” Tweet Posted on January 15, 2013 Stop rural slavery Respect the farmworkers Via

  • December 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2012 Posted on December 15, 2012 Detroit : A Raisin in the Sun by Malik Yakini Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin On Tuesday , December 11, after he , along with Saunteel Jenkins , James Tate , Gary Brown , and Charles Pugh , voted to approve the ill-conceived Hantz land sale proposal , he was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying , “a ‘no†vote would have sent the message to the world that Detroit isn†t really serious about urban agriculture.” The foremost advocates and practitioners of urban agriculture in Detroit opposed the Hantz proposal . It is groups like Feedom Freedom Growers , Earthworks

  • November 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2012 Posted on November 30, 2012 November 30, 2012 Junk Food Advertising Directed at Kids is Core to Obesity Crisis Advertisements showcase products to consumers , convincing them that this product or that product is the choice that best suit their needs . What happens when children are exposed to advertisements for foods that negatively affect their health Continue reading Junk Food Advertising Directed at Kids is Core to Obesity Crisis” Tweet Posted on November 30, 2012 Edmonton , Alberta , Canada Raj Patel author , journalist , and food policy expert , continuously challenges our presumptions about the global economy

  • October 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2012 Posted on October 31, 2012 October 31, 2012 Food Myths Busted The fine Anna Lappé has put together a splendid short film on the lies told by industrial agriculture lobbyists , and the ad agencies that love . them Please share far and wide , and check out the resources at FoodMythBusters Tweet Posted on October 30, 2012 October 30, 2012 The Soils of War The top grossing film in the United States this weekend was Argo an above average caper about how the CIA smuggled six embassy staff out of the country during the Iran hostage . crisis Argo’s Agricultural Attaché right Continue reading The Soils of War” Tweet Posted on

  • September 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2012 Posted on September 28, 2012 How did I miss bittman’s piec How did I miss bittman s piece on Alzheimer’s being Type 3 Diabetes http : t.co kztJBmAU Suspect I need to lay off the sugary . treats Tweet Posted on September 25, 2012 Meantime , check out Rupa Meantime , check out Rupa April Fishes’ new tracks http : t.co jhbtoQBq and La Semilla’s Well campaign http : t.co PbN8hMV7 Tweet Posted on September 25, 2012 Aaaand we’re back . The FoodGe Aaaand we’re back . The FoodGeneration team was in Malawi and has returned with some incredible stories . Watch this space for more , . soonish Tweet Posted on September 10, 2012

  • August 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2012 Posted on August 25, 2012 Maywa Montenegro’s Food Waste Linkorama Berkeley’s excellent Maywa Montenegro sent this fine romp through the latest food waste links , each one of which is a winner . Many thanks MM The new NRDC report on food waste gets some media attention . Americans are throwing away 40 percent of food in the U.S . the equivalent of 165 billion in uneaten food each year , 8221 writes Environmental Leader , a trade publication . While losses come  at each step in the supply chain from farm to processor to retailer to household   The Atlantic digs through the report and notes , by far the most significant

  • July 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2012 Posted on July 31, 2012 MT MarionNestle- Am . Beverage MT MarionNestle Am . Beverage Assn sponsors meeting on obesity in minorities http : t.co 7iGdIxp3 Next : Bears fund inquiry on poo in . woods Tweet Posted on July 31, 2012 thanks to jonarcher and scot thanks to jonarcher and scottjames for leading the way on our 48hr FoodGeneration 2000 matching fund challenge http : t.co mvPbVRzH Tweet Posted on July 30, 2012 We’re live Ask us anything We’re live Ask us anything no really , anything at http : t.co 4lKZzlI3 Tweet Posted on July 30, 2012 Got questions on food , film , a Got questions on food , film , activism Ask

  • June 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2012 Posted on June 29, 2012 ClimateChangePic http : t.co ClimateChangePic http : t.co FKrC02TR via SPIEGELONLINE Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Thanks all at plosmedbigfood Thanks all at plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Soda marketing is particularly Soda marketing is particularly nasty gastromom spawns all kinds of ill , from bulemia http : t.co KFIVkSS2 to diabetes plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Always interesting to hear co Always interesting to hear consumerfreedom troll and howl , and ignore the evidence http : t.co oAGIblEr plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Agreed AuthorBruce but also

  • May 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2012 Posted on May 22, 2012 If you’re near Virginia , drop If you’re near Virginia , drop by Sammie Moshenberg’s fundraiser . If not , support from afar Noble fighter , noble fight . http : t.co fbrvtUOV Tweet Posted on May 22, 2012 In Okinawa Berkeley , Fa In Okinawa Berkeley , Farmland is for Farming http : t.co JWQfyvff OccupyTheFarm Close the Base http : t.co A52gsPrT Tweet Posted on May 21, 2012 May 22, 2012 Farmland is for Farming Here on Okinawa , there†s a venerable tradition of taking fine agricultural land and turning it into something crappy , like an airbase The Japanese did it before WWII . The US did it

  • April 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2012 Posted on April 24, 2012 MT StirToAction : a new accoun MT StirToAction a new account of the criminalisation of Food Not Bombs by co-founder Keith McHenry http : t.co wKiEGxSF Tweet Posted on April 23, 2012 Thx vishrutarya for getting t Thx vishrutarya for getting the word out about Earthday and Occupy make a baby . 8217 http : t.co bspGZBkw occupyfarm and foodsovereignty Tweet Posted on April 23, 2012 April 23, 2012 Earth Day and Occupy make a Baby : Food Sovereignty The idea of “food sovereignty” is nearly 20 years old , and most folk still don†t quite know what it means . To be fair , the term ‘sovereigntyâ€

  • March 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2012 Posted on March 30, 2012 Thanks , Canadians Canadians Mayo Schmidt , President and Chief Executive Officer of Viterra one of the world†s leading agribusinesses and Canada†s largest grain handler thanks you In his company†s latest report available in their investor briefcase he even puts a number on his gratitude for your impending wheat board privatisation Continue reading Thanks , Canadians Tweet Posted on March 23, 2012 Arundhati Roy’s breathtaking Arundhati Roy’s breathtaking new sweep through India sets current corruption into scandalous context http : t.co kVp3rBYY Tweet Posted on March 23, 2012 What’s

  • February 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2012 Posted on February 29, 2012 Shackdweller Statecraft Although you’ll have to wait a little longer to see Dear Mandela the fine documentary about shackdweller struggles in South Africa , a recently-released companion short is well worth watching , especially . today A FISH IN A TIN a companion short to the documentary film DEAR MANDELA from Sleeping Giant on Vimeo Today , shackdwellers are taking their municipality to court . The government evicted poor residents from their homes , and threw them into transit camps , where they live like a fish in a tin’ , waiting for more permanent housing that never comes . It’s not

  • January 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2012 Posted on January 23, 2012 Loved hearing TheCivilWars y Loved hearing TheCivilWars yesterday they wrote the title track to FindingNorth insanely talented http : t.co JtjaRn2v Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 Harpers Index Jan 2012 of Ch Harpers Index Jan 2012 of Chinese and Americans respectively who struggle to pay for food in 2008 : 16, 9. In 2011 : 6, 19 findingnorth Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 On DemocracyNow this morning On DemocracyNow this morning to talk about Gingrich’s bile and FindingNorth http : t.co k5E0lbNA more here http : t.co kjY0mybG Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 January 23, 2012 One Nation ,

  • December 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2011 Posted on December 15, 2011 Blame China or technology for Blame China or technology for lower workers’ wages in the US No . Best explanation : the Shock Doctrine . http : t.co DmZbgrcr Tweet Posted on December 8, 2011 GRAIN report:80 of milk in Gl GRAIN report:80 of milk in Global South from small farmers . Nestlé et al trying to destroy Peoples Milk’ http : t.co ZFyaCf9T Tweet Posted on December 8, 2011 What can the Black Panthers te What can the Black Panthers teach the food movement http : t.co GM51pnbU an excerpt from http : t.co BX38OwfR Tweet Posted on December 6, 2011 Jim Goodman , dairy farmer and Jim Goodman

  • November 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2011 Posted on November 29, 2011 San Francisco , CA Kitchen Table Talks : In Solidarity with the Occupy Movement Continue reading San Francisco , CA” Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Indian govt wants to hand Walm Indian govt wants to hand Walmart 1bn customers . Indians have a better idea . http : t.co brNMNbl1 Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Two ace links between Occupy Two ace links between Occupy and feminism from Silvia Federici http : t.co bfjOgtBS and from the streets of S . Africa http : t.co 9fAb60ck Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Hallowed by history but not b Hallowed by history but not by reason” Judge

  • October 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2011 Posted on October 24, 2011 Hey Vijay aka PeaceINCaNovel Hey Vijay aka PeaceINCaNovel great to see you and your excellent novel written up in India Abroad http : t.co i3Y9zoIT Tweet Posted on October 23, 2011 The brilliant Laura Carlsen sh The brilliant Laura Carlsen shows how NAFTA is still starving Mexico http : t.co XC6h30dF Tweet Posted on October 23, 2011 Learned much from planestupid Learned much from planestupid and John Stewart on the Aviation Justice Express tour thanks loads gents . http : t.co 0GUdrPyW Tweet Posted on October 16, 2011 Fine WorldFoodDay info from F Fine WorldFoodDay info from Focus on Global

  • September 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2011 Posted on September 30, 2011 You can measure a government You can measure a government by the people they ban:US just kicked out the UK’s most effective environmentalist http : t.co bjV96YNY Tweet Posted on September 30, 2011 Great take-down of the World B Great take-down of the World Bank’s latest World Development Report http : t.co GCpp78rU No , gender isn’t just smart . econoomics’ Tweet Posted on September 28, 2011 Biopiracy India accuses Monsa Biopiracy India accuses Monsanto for stealing aubergine eggplant brinjal genetic material http : t.co NRe3R24x Tweet Posted on September 28, 2011 The 136bn bet on food

  • August 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2011 Posted on August 28, 2011 Wikileaks : US govt officials Wikileaks US govt officials pimping out GMOs . Who’d have thought http : t.co pUgLptp Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 How did I miss Bernie Sanders’ How did I miss Bernie Sanders’ GAO audit , and news of 5 trillion secret loans Socialism for the rich” aye . http : t.co GxD7Ygc Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 Robert Reich Eating Ben Bernanke’s Chowder Odd title for a post . Odd thing for Robert Reich to be doing . But very well done . Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 Great piece MochaManual : 8221 clos Great piece MochaManual closed-door deals between the

  • July 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2011 Posted on July 18, 2011 Great news from SouthAfrica a Great news from SouthAfrica and a perfect birthday gift for Nelson Mandela-The Kennedy 12 have been freed . http : t.co RA9WJ0P Tweet Posted on July 18, 2011 July 18, 2011 Dear Mandela Good news from South Africa today . No , the news isn’t that Nelson Mandela is 93 today . It’s something far more in keeping with Mandela’s spirit and struggle . The Kennedy 12 twelve men accused of a range of crimes , including murder have been acquitted . It’s becoming increasingly clear that they were framed . The government couldn’t stand the idea of poor people in the poorest areas

  • June 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2011 Posted on June 29, 2011 Grain.org report : public pensi Grain.org report : public pension funds are bankrolling the global LandGrab http : t.co h3dnRaP Tweet Posted on June 29, 2011 RT CivilEats : Now on Civil Ea RT CivilEats Now on Civil Eats : Organic in Cuba : Something from Nothing http : is.gd OqtwLh by eathere2 Tweet Posted on June 28, 2011 Blazing Brazilian Biofuel Beatdown The Food and Agriculture Organization will have a new director-general , José Graziano da Silva . Among Graziano’s accomplishments is the Zero Hunger programme , which has been partly responsible for getting 40 million people out of hunger .

  • April 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2011 Posted on April 29, 2011 April 29, 2011 On the Royal Wedding The Royal Wedding is over , and Britain can go back to its routine celebrity obsessions and police excesses I’ll be raising a glass to Ian Bone whose hit Better Dead than Wed dates from the last royal wedding , of which I was reminded by Red Pepper magazine Best : lines Continue reading On the Royal Wedding” Tweet Posted on April 28, 2011 Geoffrey Sea’s Nuclear Bulletin 22 The Word is Bail Nuclear Bulletin 22 27 iv 2011 The Word is . Bail A summation of events since Bulletin 21 is in order : Japan has extended the evacuation zone and imposed tough measures

  • March 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2011 Posted on March 31, 2011 March 30, 2011 FYI : A New Model for Food Banks The excellent people at The Stop the food bank that wants to put itself out of business have a fine write-up in the Globe and Mail . Read more here Tweet Posted on March 30, 2011 March 30, 2011 The Symphony Way Before the Soccer World Cup last year , I was asked to write a foreword to an anthology of life stories told by South African pavement dwellers , living on Symphony Way near Cape Town . The stories blew me away . It was very easy to write the short introduction below , just as it’s easy to encourage you to take a look at it now . The book is

  • February 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2011 Posted on February 24, 2011 Do the Right Thing The Coalition of Immokalee Workers are pushing forward with their wage demands , targeting two supermarket giants Publix and Ahold . I’ll be taking aim at Ahold a little later next month , but if you’re on the East Coast of the US , you can join in right now find out more at the CIW’s Do The Right Thing campaign page . Tweet Posted on February 21, 2011 February 22, 2011 Democracy Activists Arrested in Zimbabwe After Egypt , activists around the world have had the wind at their backs and the state at their throats . In Libya , Bahrain , Jordan and from Wisconsin to South

  • January 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2011 Posted on January 31, 2011 Welcome to the Future , Same as the Past More chop logic from our leaders , this time coming from the World Economic Forum . As the BBC reports , World leaders have warned that rising food prices could lead to social unrest and even economic war” But business leaders at the World Economic Forum rejected calls for curbs on commodity speculation . 8221 Continue reading Welcome to the Future , Same as the Past” Tweet Posted on January 31, 2011 Cincinnati , OH A Conversation with Michael Hardt , at the Taft Research Center Tweet Posted on January 31, 2011 Durban , South Africa Time of the Writer

  • December 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2010 Posted on December 9, 2010 Beverly Bell and Tory Field : Miami Rice I don’t normally post other folks’ articles but this is a particularly important piece on the US involvement in the Haitian rice racket , written by one of the most vital and urgent voices from Haiti , Beverly Bell More below the . fold Continue reading Beverly Bell and Tory Field : Miami Rice” Tweet Posted on December 8, 2010 Killer Pizza Fred Kaufman has written a terrific piece about Domino’s pizza . The pizza industry calls itself the world’s most popular food” . As with almost everything else about the industry’s narrative , this is a claim that

  • November 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2010 Posted on November 30, 2010 Milan , Italy Dec 1, 20h30, CasaLoca , . Milan Tweet Posted on November 29, 2010 FYI : Outsourcing Carbon For some reason , I’d thought I’d posted this already , but since I can’t seem to find it , and since the next round of climate change talks are about to start , it’s worth repeating . Continue reading FYI : Outsourcing Carbon” Tweet Posted on November 25, 2010 Jesus Christ Must Have Had Mud on His Shoes Despite my views on religion I found this incredibly moving . It’s a message from members of the Abahlali baseMjondolo shackdwellers movement in South Africa , appealing to friends in

  • October 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2010 Posted on October 30, 2010 Food Crisis Analysis The Guardian’s excellent Felicity Lawrence has put together a podcast on global food security and its decline Among the contributors Jayati Ghosh and Olivier De Schutter As far as I can tell , there isn’t a way to comment on the podcast at the Guardian’s site , but feel free to pile in below . Tweet Posted on October 30, 2010 Books by my bedside Three books that I’m excited to read : Love in the Time of AIDS by Mark Hunter . It has been acclaimed as the best book about HIV AIDS in South Africa , and I’m not surprised . I was in South Africa when Mark was doing his

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