Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social

Research Prof @TheLBJSchool, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" co-author "Inflamed".

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

New writing project. First post is the recipe for solidarity and the three things that change the world — witness, friendship, and art. https://t.co/Cw4rwtAioT

[Gary Ruskin @garyruskin]

Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.
Via @StacyMalkan @USRightToKnow
https://t.co/59tUe5JBRz

[Livable Future @livablefuture]

Episode 34 is out now: food system scholar @_RajPatel cuts through the tangled problems of the industrial food system and points toward a better future. https://t.co/HT6fSLg6tr

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

“Farm to fork” smuggles a faulty metaphor, a journey from seed to harvest. For many, the food systems means having to stay very firmly in place. The idea of 'food circuits' helps make that clearer. New writing with Seth Holmes in SciencePolitics https://t.co/NOGNza8kNw

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

The death toll of H5N1 in Australia looks apocalyptic. One in five birds and mammals are vulnerable, and some species will suffer catastrophic population loss. https://t.co/4wp8DmWjtJ https://t.co/B0wO0VYj1x

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

The victory against Walmart in Mississauga deserves far more play than it's getting in the media. Benjamin Y. Fong explains why, in this excellent piece in Phenomenal World. https://t.co/r0jfbVcBPx

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Cristina Rivera Garza is an incredible talent. I'm very excited to read her recently translated Autobiography of Cotton, covered here by Tony Wood. https://t.co/FG41ym4KTW

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

A recent attack on Marion Nestle starts to make sense if you're far less kind to the Make America Healthy Again movement than Marion has been. https://t.co/4coarD00s7

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Hamba Kahle Njoki Njehu - Njoki and her partner Soren Ambrose, who died in 2020, were such vital forces in the alter globalisation scene in the 2000s. I'm deeply grateful for all they taught me. https://t.co/rxNJfg5Kgt

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Lights, Camera, Authoritarianism! https://t.co/CpTs2ex4oQ's Reactionary International dossier has a fantastic new entry, on national chauvinism on film and phone, from India to Israel to Hungary to the US. https://t.co/ifzVVyRPPR

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

The flames of xenophobia in South Africa are burning. Yesterday's deadline for exodus could have been far worse, but things still looking grim. Richard Pithouse is excellent on this Al Jazeera panel. https://t.co/P3Jll158Kt

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Armed xenophobic groups are moving through poor and working-class neighbourhoods in South Africa right now. Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Congolese Solidarity Campaign are trying to get people to safety. Please help if you can. https://t.co/wl8xZOFJ5H

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Congratulations Neal Haddaway and team on the launch of *Edible Empire* — a podcast on the costs of our food system, from food imperialism to the fight for something fairer. I’m excited for the series, and to hear the episode I appear in!
https://t.co/mKZ2BtaEh6

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Xenophobes declared a June 30 deadline for migrants to leave South Africa. Abahlali baseMjondolo secretary-general Thapelo Mohapi went viral with this piece about the last time xenophobia burned across the country. https://t.co/yDVKaJqRDE

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

The connection between the violence in Belfast and the humanitarian disaster in Durban isn't an accident. Progressive International have sent an alert. Here's some background.
https://t.co/vOLQUep2N3
https://t.co/FDZd7PXZFj

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

David Bacon's black and white photography is always heartstopping. Use it to find out about what Coachella was before it was #Coachella, out now in the excellent US rural news source BarnRaiser https://t.co/OZCQ36kTLw

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Operation Dudula & March and March set a 30 June deadline for migrants to leave #SouthAfrica. ~10,000 are now penned in a Durban park and the state is deporting them, not protecting them.

The world's gaze is Pretoria's vulnerability. Don't look away.

https://t.co/grfWYmvtGK

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Last week saw the funeral of Edgar Morin, who coined #polycrisis. He meant it as an indictment of compartmentalized, technocratic, elite thinking. Its second life has been stranger: a sophisticated ¯\(ツ)/¯ for those who cry 'fire!' while letting it burn. https://t.co/vgJQAz2wHv

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

HAPPENING NOW 🇨🇴 Students from Universidad del Valle, one of the largest public universities in Colombia, are striking against far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella until after the second round of the presidential election.

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

Loka Ashwood and team have an incredible dataset on who owns what in agribusiness. Shells, subsidiaries, and executives are catalogued and linked. A gift for anyone curious about who, exactly, runs the world food system. https://t.co/MTOnp1ZfQq

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

And it's brilliant too.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

They got me. They blocked me from doing too many posts and quote tweets per day without being verified-

So it was stopping me from promoting. Only allowing me to retweet. So now I'm temporarily verified.

I Love Boosters is in theaters now!