Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
Raj Patel
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The anti-Congolese xenophobia in Durban is horrific. It's particularly scandalous that one of the parties fanning the flames was invited to the SACP's conference. More here: progressive.international/movement/art... richardpithouse.substack.com/p/a-moment-o...
I don't often circulate petitions, but this one could do with 15 seconds of your time. Sergio Oceransky's persecutors don't like the limelight and your attention can bring it to them. c.org/W4pJ9g9pjv
progressive.international/wire/2026-05... If you're in the US, see you on the streets: maydaystrong.org
Joy's Great Democrat
Here's an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter. If you're not signed up, join in here! Carlo Petrini died on the evening of 21 May,...
Loka Ashwood and team have an incredible dataset on who owns what in agribusiness. Shells, subsidiaries, and executives are catalogued and linked. A gift for anyone curious about who, exactly, runs the world food system. acre.wisc.edu/big-ag-network
Arizona leads the way in SNAP enrollment declines as the US government makes it harder than ever for working people to access food. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Dzonot & Toh
UPDATE: Please sign this petition to support Sergio Oceransky Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld. The cenotes — a Spanish word derived from the Mayan dzonot, meaning abyss — form...
Last week saw the funeral of Edgar Morin, who coined #polycrisis. He meant it as an indictment of compartmentalized, technocratic, elite thinking. Its second life has been stranger: a sophisticated ¯\(ツ)/¯ for those who cry 'fire!' while letting it burn. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/where-the-...
Remember Covid? The next pandemic could emerge from industrial factory farms being funded by the World Bank Group (IFC).
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As war and political turmoil disrupt fertilizer and fuel supplies globally, agroecology is a way to build resilience in a destabilized world. Listen to episode two of Agroecology Uprooted now! www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
Stop the Criminalization of Sergio Oceransky, Human Rights and Environmental Defender
UPDATE: Please sign this petition to support Sergio Oceransky Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld. The cenotes — a Spanish word derived from the Mayan dzonot, meaning abyss — form a...
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Here's an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter. If you're not signed up, join in here! Carlo Petrini died on the evening of 21 May, at...
When we talk about climate change, most people think about fossil fuels. But there’s another major driver that often gets overlooked: factory farming.
Industrial livestock production is fueling…
Around the world, farmers adopting agroecological practices are rebuilding their soil, growing an abundance of food, and decreasing their reliance on external inputs. As war and political turmoil disr...
