MLK:”know that freedom is never given out, but it comes through … persistent and … continual agitation and revolt.” http://t.co/HZslqgvc

It’s Martin Luther King day in the US today, and I managed to catch King’s “Birth of A New Nation” speech on KPFA’s Africa Today show this evening. The full speech is here but if you’ve a few minutes, it’s always heartstopping to hear Dr King preach.

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Ignacio Chapela will be familiar to readers of Stuffed and Starved. He’s a soil biologist at Berkeley and an outspoken critic of genetically modified crops, a position which has focussed the wrath of the biotechnology industry upon him. Here is a short analysis he penned earlier today on news from Europe that chemical company BASF will be pulling its GMO operations from Europe, where they are unwelcome (because ineffective and dangerous), and moving them to North Carolina.

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How Many Lives Could a Soda Tax Save? http://t.co/8fXcSVyJ How keen is the soda industry to prevent it? http://t.co/ye2Ihtdn

Blame China or technology for lower workers’ wages in the US? No. Best explanation: the Shock Doctrine. http://t.co/DmZbgrcr

GRAIN report:80% of milk in Global South from small farmers. Nestlé et al trying to destroy ‘Peoples Milk’ http://t.co/ZFyaCf9T

What can the Black Panthers teach the food movement? http://t.co/GM51pnbU – an excerpt from http://t.co/BX38OwfR

Jim Goodman, dairy farmer and #ViaCampesina member rocks #OWS http://t.co/y6GNgQ9r

My next project on the global food system is underway, and I’m looking for research help. Interested? http://t.co/fhq0JDOP

Are you interested in global food justice? Are you curious about how the world will eat in the future? Will you have some free time in the next six to ten weeks? Are you familiar with at least one of the countries listed below and/or knowledgeable about one of the topic areas? We are looking for interns around the world to do foundational research for a new trans-media project on the future of the global food system.

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