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Food is the basis for social life. And we won’t stop until it is no longer treated as a commodity for profit or as a weapon. We will need a deeply informed, strategic, and broad social movement to build power to change not only our food system, but everything. We cannot do it without you.
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Thirty years ago many banana workers in the Philippines made a radical change in their work and lives. They transformed the militant unions they had organized to wrest a decent living from the multinational corporations that control much of the world’s food production. Instead of working for wages, they used the country’s land reform law to become the owners of the plantations where they had labored for generations.
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It is within our reach to end hunger in the world. It has been within our reach for a while now. But the challenges we must surmount to achieve this have been fundamentally, essentially institutional.
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This publication was edited by Luis Escala Rabadan. This publication is the final part of a three part Issue Brief…
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