Raj Patel - also rajpatel.bsky.social
@_RajPatel
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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!
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RT @SketchesbyBoze: Kurt Vonnegut; the country that we love still exists at the public library
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RT @jorie_graham: Happy 4th. This is what we are doing to our people.They plan to expand this to US citizens, & build detention centers in….
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RT @IPESfood: Despite the risks, fossil fuel use in food systems is still growing. Our new #FuelToFork report shows how this dependence is….
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Everyone should know about Emma Tenayuca, Texas legend. When the INS was called to bust pecan-shellers' strikes, she fought La Migra, bosses, and the KKK at the same time.
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The German Ideology's post-capitalist "day seems to pivot between men doing animal killing and offering opinion. To the untrained eye, this doesn’t appear terribly distant from a late capitalism in which bros do keto by day and podcasts by night. "
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What do the Mondine - the Italian women who first sang 'Bella ciao!' - have in common with The Black Panthers? Both were counter-hegemonic movements, with a *lot* to offer today. My latest in The Journal of Peasant Studies (temporarily) free:
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🔥 Sabrina Fernandes breaks it down: when “green cooperation” becomes green colonialism. Must-read on how the Global South is pushing back—and pushing forward. 🌱✊ #JustTransition #Ecocene
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La Via Campesina hosts a webinar in solidarity with Palestine tomorrow #AllEyesOnGaza 🕒 Time: 12 UTC / 14 CEST .➡️ Find your local time here .➡️Registration link :
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Plastique, engrais chimiques, ultratransformation : la production alimentaire très dépendante des énergies fossiles
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NEW REPORT from IPES-Food just out!.🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation. 🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals.#FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood. 👉
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Vienna has found a way to build affordable housing and combat climate change. Now U.S. cities want in. Climate+Community's latest report on NPR!
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If you've not signed up to A Growing Culture's list, you're missing some incredible context on food sovereignty. It's vial reading ahead of the Nyeleni meetings this September.
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A food system hooked on fossil fuels is especially vulnerable to disruption. In the Mid East, output's halted, and urea prices are up. Expect speculators and food price spikes to follow.
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Egypt boosted fertilizer exports to $3.4 billion after Russia's Ukraine invasion. Now Egypt's fertilizer plants themselves sit idle as Middle East conflict cuts gas supplies. The food system is only as stable as the most fragile link in the energy chain.
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Hunger That Defeats Language: " Hunger steals the simplest human abilities: concentration, patience, sensation, the desire to say something. Thinking becomes a luxury. Words become weights that cannot be lifted."
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On World Hunger Day, the South African shackdwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, have an international vision, and an excellent 10 point plan
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The Ants & the Grasshopper is screening this Sunday at 10/9c on PBS Doc World. Watch, for free, on the PBS App/YouTube!
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Mark Duffield asks bluntly: Are western NGOs saving lives, or just making death more conscionable by making radical change unthinkable?
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9/10 grocery store workers report price gouging at their stores while 4/5 workers are unable to pay basic living costs: an important new report on Krogers & Albertsons h/t Errol Schweizer
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