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Feature
The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities
Forty years after food activism took off around the globe, corporatism is stronger than ever. But so is the grassroots push for control over our work, land and seeds.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Why Hunger Is Still With Us
A truly democratic food system will need to rewrite the rules of our financial system.
Raj Patel
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Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
The biggest threat we face is the control of seed and food moving into a few corporate hands.
Vandana Shiva
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It’s Not Just About Food
Food is a good place to start to make change—but it’s only a start.
Eric Schlosser
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How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System
As the food movement has discovered, winning over the media, or even the president, is not enough.
Michael Pollan
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The Production Conundrum
As Zambia’s experience shows, solving hunger is not just about growing more food.
Samuel Fromartz
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Walmart’s Fresh Food Makeover
Can the retailer known for its poverty wages solve the problem of urban “food deserts”?
Bridget Huber
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Farm Bill 101
As Congress gears up to reauthorize the farm bill next year, the stakes are high.
Daniel Imhoff
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Who Says Food Is a Human Right?
Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, makes the case in this Q&A.
Anna Lappé
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Venezuela’s Radical Food Experiment
Seeking “food sovereignty,” Hugo Chávez puts oil wealth toward a local, sustainable food system.
Paula Crossfield
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Editorial
After Obama’s Broken Promises, Will Green Voters Sit Out 2012?
Obama doesn’t have much time left to convince environmental activists that he’s worth their sweat and sacrifices in the next election.
The Editors
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Noted.
Kevin Gosztola on Cablegate’s newest revelations, Liliana Segura on Rick Perry’s executions and Richard Kim on Ahmadinejad’s plans to release the jailed American hikers
Various Contributors
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Can Palestine’s Bid for UN Statehood Revive the National Movement?
The PA’s bid could mark a definitive break from the failed Oslo paradigm, which has brought Palestinians neither peace nor a state.
Graham Usher
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Column
The Problem of Media Stupidity
Why do the media believe that they must behave like idiots in order to be “fair” to the Republicans and their idiotic ideas?
Eric Alterman
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The Meaning of Riots
Whatever the spark, social unrest is the predictable result of conditions like poverty, discrimination and police brutality.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.
Norman Birnbaum
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Soft Sells: On Liberal Internationalism
Why does John Ikenberry think the sorrows of liberal internationalism are temporary?
Samuel Moyn
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Agents of Destruction
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Tate Taylor’s The Help
Stuart Klawans
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