Braceros Organize After One Worker Dies
Blog | David Bacon | Aug 9, 2017
This post was originally published on David Bacon’s blog The Reality Check. A farmworker’s death in the broiling fields of…
Labor in the Food System
The movement for food justice cannot thrive in a system where food and farm workers are exploited, criminalized and hungry. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Labor in the Food System
Familias Unidas por la Justicia: Their Historic Union Contract
Blog | Hayley Jones | Jul 24, 2017
Photo by Edgar Franks. Members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), an independent farmworker union comprised of Mixteco and…
People’s Climate March: A Powerful Day for Climate Justice & Food Sovereignty
Blog | Ahna Kruzic | Apr 30, 2017
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Cultivating Gender Justice
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | | Mar 29, 2017
Author’s note: Thank you to Tasnim Elboute, Ayana Crawford, McKenna Jacquemet, Matthew Rose-Stark, Erik Hazard, and Jonathan Baldoza for their invaluable and…
Gender Injustice and the Cultivation of Industrial Agriculture
Blog | Ahna Kruzic and Erik Hazard | Mar 8, 2017
Photo by JonyBraker / CC BY While globalization and industrialization of the food system has resulted in fewer farms and…
Unbroken Connection to the Land
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon and Rosalinda Guillén | Feb 8, 2017
The following is the eighth installment in our Dismantling Racism in the Food System series, and is abridged from 2017’s forthcoming book Land Justice:…
Trump Doesn’t Really Want to Stop Immigration
Blog | Erik Hazard | Feb 1, 2017
David Bacon’s recent article “What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants” concisely articulates US immigration policy’s role within today’s economic…
Más allá de Trump: cómo la privatización de la presidencia por un billonario afectará nuestros alimentos
Blog | Ahna Kruzic and Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 21, 2017
Translation by Tamara Wattnem. This article was originally published in English. You can read this article in Portuguese here. Donald Trump es monumentalmente deplorable. Pero…
Beyond Trump: How Will a Billionaire’s Privatization of the Presidency Affect our Food?
Blog | Ahna Kruzic and Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 21, 2017
Donald Trump is monumentally disgraceful. But that’s not the point—the political and economic crisis that got him elected is the…
Decolonize Your Diet: Notes Towards Decolonization
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Catrióna Rueda Esquibel | Nov 24, 2016
The following is the seventh installment in our Dismantling Racism in the Food System series. Click here to download this Backgrounder, or view…
Elections 2016: A Message from Food First
Blog | Food First | Nov 10, 2016
Photo by Stephen Melkisethian / CC BY Friends of Food First, Like you, we’re feeling this election’s devastating setbacks; but now more…
Good Food Rising
Blog | Jonathan Baldoza | Nov 9, 2016
What kind of a world do we want to live in? This was the question that resonated throughout the evening…
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