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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 6d

RISING UP TOGETHER – Uniting climate movements with farmer and peasant struggles at COP30 Incl ActionAid, IPES-Food, La Via Campesina, the World March of Women, and the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30.

🗓️ Thursday 9 October
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🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 7d

Federal SNAP cuts will upend state budgets. Yes, the scale in the graph goes up to 775%, but it's worth looking at absolute $ figures too. www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-... h/t GroceryNerd

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 8d

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring. The reliably good Bloomberg Green connects the dots between AI and the war on the poor www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 15d

Tucked into the Appropriations Bill is a limit on the right to sue pesticide manufacturers for harm. As always, Carey Gillam has the details. www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/in-w...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17d

ICYMI, on Saturday the USDA cancelled its food security survey. I'm certain there are depths of stupidity left to plumb, but ignorance about hunger has yet to be proven a path to ending it.

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20d

If you just missed the webinar, there's a fantastic trove of data on the Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming trials in Zambia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Philippines and India at naturalfarming.global

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 20d

Judith Butler on being denied due process by the U of California, Berkeley, once a bastion of free speech.

Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 21d

This will have a chilling effect on academic freedom and critical inquiry.

Judith Butler Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 21d

Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility.

@rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:

MAHA v. Mamdani - Boston Review

Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness.

www.bostonreview.net

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20d

What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 21d

The Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming team and the good folk at the Kasisi Agricultural Centre in Zambia have some *very* exciting results from their trials. Can't say much more, but it'll be a gamechanger. events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 21d

Very much enjoying Alex Hefron's thoughts on Democratic Supermarketism, and a reminder of the global purchase of the public supply chain discussion. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 24d

Each of these wonderful books will crack open your world, and make it better. Find them in your local bookstore and watch this space for news of the shortlist (we announce on Oct 7th) www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 29d

Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-g...

Nyéléni Global Forums | Via Campesina

viacampesina.org

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 29d

Mark Bittman’s new restaurant doesn’t plan to make money: it's doing so much more. A public restaurant in NYC. Opening this month. And I'm so proud to be on the advisory board. www.fastcompany.com/91388531/mar...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Sep 8

ANC Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi channels Stephen Miller: "the majority of people living in shack settlements are people that are not documented in our country....we are going to destroy those informal settlements.” Abahlali baseMjondolo begs to differ: www.enca.com/opinion/abah...

Abahlali Basemjondolo accuses Lesufi of declaring war on the poor

Shackdweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo says the Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, has declared war on the poor.

www.enca.com

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Aug 26

The IPC data on famine in Gaza is utterly horrifying. Don't look away. www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Aug 11

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City

“We understand these are our last days.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Aug 13

On Weds Aug 27, 2025, 12h00 UTC, Olivier De Schutter, Caroline Peters, Nangamso Ka NomaHlubi Koza and I will be talking about how the South African presidency of the G20 might support food sovereignty. Join us! bit.ly/4mbiwmR

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Aug 12

In 2022, a few days after Lindokuhle Mnguni was assassinated, the VK Rasmussen Foundation called for ways to build leadership in 'the polycrisis'. Three years, many meetings. and five movements have produced these brilliant materials. www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Jul 24

Utsa Patnaik gives the lie to India's dodgy hunger data in her latest. Key question 'how can poverty have declined when hunger has increased?' thewire.in/economy/usin...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Jul 20

Three years and a movement: how farmers defeated the land grab by India’s Karnataka state peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/19/t...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Jul 19

Against some seriously vile xenophobia from Operation Dudula today comes one of the most beautiful statements of international solidarity I've come across in a long time, from Thapelo Mohapi at Abahlali baseMjondolo.https://buff.ly/YKlenQx buff.ly/mPohXq4

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Jul 17

Abahlali baseMjondolo humiliated the Operation Dudula xenophobes on the streets of Johannesburg today abahlali.org/node/18479/ Proud moment of counter-hegemonic movement building.

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Jul 15

Kudos to Ben Iuliano, Adam Calo, Maywa Montenegro de Wit and Adam Calo from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective for ending the Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” in Spectre spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Emergency Conference of States to Halt the Gaza Genocide is about to begin.

📺 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/t4DpIH8

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