Tag: Food Justice

• Meet the Octopus

  I just uploaded a rough mix of one of the tunes I’m working on for my next record on the page of the Kickstarter I’m running to support it.  You can check it out by clicking here, or on the photo above. It’s called El Pulpo, a handle I got from the book Inevitable Revolutions…

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  August 17, 2014

  Crowdfunding, History, Music, Music Files, Politics, Site News, Work In Progress

  american empire, Chiquita, Columbia, El Pulpo, Empire’s Workshop, Food Justice, Greg Grandin, History, Inevitable Revolutions, Kickstarter, Music, United Fruit Company, Upcoming Projects, Walter Lafeber

• The Battle of the Basket

  Sometimes magazines surpass your expectations.  I click on a lot of links that my friends post about social issues on Facebook, but I can’t say a lot of them lead to Esquire magazine.  Yet the other day, I followed a link posted by a former teaching colleague of mine to an excellent article Esquire ran by…

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  August 11, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, Politics, Site News, Work In Progress

  Arthur S. Demoulas, Arthur T. Demoulas, Chris Faraone, Esquire, Food Justice, JP Morgan Chase, Market Basket, Neoliberalism, profit margins, Raj Patel, Shaw’s, Stuffed and Starved, Upcoming Projects

• Corporate Welfare.9: Markets and Chains

  Today I’m posting a link to an article from the blog CivilEats.com by Adrien Schless-Meier called “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains Make More.”  It’s a topic on my mind because one of the songs on the record I’m working on is about the economics of supermarkets.  The song is called “King Piggly…

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  July 22, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Film, Music, Work In Progress

  Adrien Schless-Meier, Bread & Circus, Cambridge, civileats.com, corporate welfare, Films, Food Justice, King Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Raj Patel, Rindge Towers, Target, The Wrestler, Trader Joe’s, Upcoming Projects, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods

• Corporate Welfare.6: Pulling a Fast One

  UC Berkeley’s Labor Center has published a new study on the role public subsidies play in the business model of fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s.  Like the other corporations in this series of posts, it turns out that these firms surreptitiously pocket billions in public subsidies while preaching the doctrine of…

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  October 17, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Politics

  Burger King, Capitalism, Economics, Fast Food Forward, Food Justice, Labor movement, McDonald’s, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Strikes, The Real News Network, UC Berkeley Labor Center, Washington Consensus, Wendy’s

• Corporate Welfare.3: Welfare Wings

  Today the Real News Network, who I encourage you to support during their current drive to win a matching gift, is reporting that “the Michigan strategic fund has decided to issue $450 million in bonds for a new stadium for the Detroit Red Wings, 44% of which will be financed publicly,” while the city is…

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  July 25, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts, Sports

  Battle For Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nets, Capitalism, Dave Zirin, David Cay Johnston, Economics, Food Justice, Free Lunch, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, Neoliberalism, New England Patriots, New York Yankees, Politics, profit margins, Real News Network, Rudy Giuliani, Sports, The Fall, The Nation

• R.I.P., MCA.1

  I’d like to express my respect for the late MCA’s work by sharing some thoughts his passing brought to mind about an aspect of his life that many of referred to but few focus on at length, which is his interest in and practice of Buddhist teachings.  I didn’t learn about Buddhism from MCA, and…

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  August 11, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts

  Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Eric Lott, Feminism, Folk Implosion, Food Justice, Mass Incarceration, MCA, Race, The Dharma

• Muffled in Miami.2

  As a post script to my post on the censure of Ozzie Guilllen for his comments on Cuba, I’m posting today stories from The Real News Network and Democracy Now on the isolation of the US and Canada at the just-concluded Summit of the Americas because of their refusal to allow Cuba to participate.  As…

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  April 17, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, History, Politics, Sports

  Bill Clinton, Cold War, Fidel Castro, Food Justice, Haiti, IMF, Imperialism, Latin America, Miami Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, Politics, Sports, USA, Washington Consensus, World Bank