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.” Religion and Society 22, no. 2 (1975): 24-38.
Continue reading “The Dalit Panthers Manifesto”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…
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”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”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.
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”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”Inflamed: The Animation
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:
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