Defend Luciano Canfora! Pierre Vesperini explains why Italy's Giorgi Meloni is suing an 81 year old philologist. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Very pleased to spend some time with Olivier De Schutter at the IPES-Food meetings, and to celebrate his splendid book. Precise, concise and deeply learned, Olivier offers a brilliant manifesto for a world after 'economic growth'. plutobooks.com/9780745350233/…

🔴 NEW | How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

Industrial chicken firms that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

📝 Alex Park
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desmog.com/2024/04/19/dev…

'More than one in five emerging markets and developing countries paid more to service their debt in 2022 than they received in external financing. This could rise to more than one in three by 2025' More from ONEAftershocks at data.one.org/data-dives/net…

Happy International Day of Peasant Struggles! La Via Campesina (Official EN) has some great resources to celebrate including Jim Goodman’s classic In Praise of Peasants commondreams.org/views/2009/04/…

Instead of calling it H5N1, the dairy industry would prefer you don't call it “bird flu in cows”. Their suggestion: 'Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV)'. If it jumps to humans: 'Freedom Flu'.
vox.com/future-perfect…

The Black Panthers inspired struggle far beyond the United States. The Dalit Panthers' manifesto is online, and remains painfully relevant. rajpatel.org/2024/04/15/the…

Just a few days left to vote in the Webbys for The Ants & The Grasshopper: The Series! -  vote.webbyawards.com/publicvoting#/…

Last August, the New York Times gave Modi a beard to crack down on independent journalists. (thenation.com/article/world/…) Prabir Purkayastha, 78, has been in jail for months. Now, Brazilian leaders urge Lula to intervene. pressenza.com/2024/03/reques…

The USDA has analysed its own data from 2016-21 to illustrate Stuart Hall's observation that 'race is…the modality in which class is lived'. There are *huge* racial inequities among the already abysmal levels of hunger in the US. ers.usda.gov/publications/p…

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*Very* excited for Tracie McMillan's latest, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. Preorder now! traciemcmillan.com/white-bonus/

BJP leader explaining why Kerala won’t vote for it: literacy rates too high so people think for themselves.

1969 Oakland, California: Black Panther Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine's Church. Ms. Woods gives loving care to a child. From Stephen Shames & Erikca Huggins' *excellent* Comrade Sisters accartbooks.com/us/book/comrad…

New research on Zimbabwe's land reform. A blog series in a short thread.

1/ Livelihood change zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/liv…

Very excited to have Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor's vital new book. Solidarity is mutual liberation, and it's going to be very exciting to see these two brilliant minds plot its course, and its impediments.

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Public housing is one of the only deeply affordable housing options left. The time is past due for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders' GND for Public Housing. Our research shows its transformative potential. More from 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m….

It's hardly news that the United States Trade Representative overrides public health concerns that stop US food biz from making a buck. Still, it's hard not to be appalled when the headline is 'USTR to world's babies: drink shit and die.' propublica.org/article/how-am…

Today’s food inflation is not due to shortages. Right now, world cereal production is at an all-time high. What is driving high prices? The math doesn't add up without factoring in corporate power. More: grain.org/e/7120