Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social
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Research Prof @TheLBJSchool, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" https://t.co/7jHuTPOg7u, co-author "Inflamed".
Austin, Texas
Joined June 2009
Thank you @NaomiAKlein for your very kind works about @DrRupaMarya and my new book. It's out now! https://t.co/WnnwrhdXWU
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URGENT 🚨🇻🇪 President Trump has announced a “complete blockade” of all US-sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela — an escalation that amounts to a declaration of war against an entire nation. Statement from the @ProgIntl Observatory.
progressive.international
Statement from the Observatory of the Progressive International
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Clara Mattei founded the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation - FREE - just a few months ago. Already, it's a hub for praxis not just in Tulsa, but far beyond. Here's our conversation on the food system:
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What problems can public food procurement solve for? At least 15 different things, with 52 different ways of tackling them. Balancing mechanisms and goals is the proper object of politics. https://t.co/9wBVET61QG
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1/ A high-functioning board is the ultimate leverage for a founder. Here’s why (and how to build one):
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Last week, the WFP announced that 318 million people face acute food insecurity. My friend and colleague Erin Lentz led a team asking 'do the numbers add up?' Answer: no. The WFP likely undercounts 1 in 5 in crisis. https://t.co/5gq85sp1my
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You should know about the largest far-right network in history. This is as comprehensive a mapping of India's far right as I've seen: incredible journalism and data visualization. https://t.co/E4CBvjZoOs
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Four groups of toxins in food lead to >$1.4 trillion in healthcare costs. Chances that the chemical industry will ever pay the bill: zero. https://t.co/Buf5rFLQbO
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New York's Good Food Purchasing Program matters far beyond NYC - here's how, and why:
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That social movements are on the front lines of polycrisis isn't new. What's exciting is that their polysolutions are getting high-level airtime. Abahlali baseMjondolo presented theirs at SADC yesterday https://t.co/GbwbF2SIAQ
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Almost $1 Trillion has already flowed into AI through data, models, compute, and infra. And this is still early. But here’s the gap 👇 Capital flows freely. Value doesn’t. AI today runs on closed pipes: * Centralized data * Permissioned models * Value captured by monopolies
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I've been thinking through 'polycrisis', finding its rise and fall helpful to think with. The Transition Security Project invited me to bend those ideas their way, and I'm very pleased with how they turned out:
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NEW ESSAY: Read @_RajPatel on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment. Â https://t.co/HQZTP0xpfP
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Excellent new FoE report out on how USDA’s Commodity Food Purchasing Favors Industrial Agriculture by buying from conglomerates - esp Tyson - rather than sustainable farmers https://t.co/8ur0eRapXm
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I couldn't stop thinking about a 1950s pre-show before One Battle After Another. It's now online, and hints at why US culture wars over Christmas are so politically charged. #ChristmasExplorersClub
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Naomi Klein is in brilliant form in her latest essay, linking surrealism, Zionism, Zohran and a vision for the antithesis of fascism in Equator: https://t.co/WwHnjlXh8r
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Consumption of beef in China will decline this year and fall again in 2026, while pork has hit a "structural plateau", and the egg market is glutted. But chicken is everywhere. https://t.co/hWdsLsNC8K
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When trauma isn’t healed, it makes every relationship feel crowded — past hurt standing between you and the people trying to love you. The Word of God is the only thing strong enough to quiet the noise and restore your heart.
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The Public Option to Stop Price Gouging is spreading. Avi Lewis has it as a plank in his platform for NDP leadership in Canada. https://t.co/LXKDPBHcgA
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It's International Food Workers Week, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance is showing what it is to be in solidarity with them. https://t.co/EPX3nyzj0T
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Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy https://t.co/thxc76Wc2M then listen: https://t.co/Mzu5djSa1e
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Food systems only transform through coalition. Here's a pitch to Team Mamdani. Next partners to be reeled in: unions, public schools, and restaurants. Thx to Community Food Advocates for looping me in!
foodadvocates.org
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From an incredible shortlist, it was an honour to hand Omar El Akkad the National Book Award for non-fiction this year. His speech left not a dry eye in the house. He, and his book, deserve your attention. https://t.co/hfmcj8MciY
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The Lancet's series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health is a landmark. The hard part, always, is to shape policy to match the science.
thelancet.com
20 years ago, while studying changes in Brazil’s food supply linked to rising obesity, we realised that the purpose of food processing had shifted from preserving foods to creating profitable...
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