Tag: Raj Patel

• 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