🚌 Fast buses.
🏙️ Green social housing.
⚡ Public utilities.
🛠️Union-made batteries.
What do these all have in common? They’re part of a winning strategy for a Working Class Climate Agenda. Climate+Community has the details: stopgreedbuildgreen.org
If you're in Toronto next month, come say hi. I'll be at the Culinaria Research Centre and other fine folk, trying out some new ideas. Tix are free, get 'em here: www.eventbrite.com/e/raj-patel-...
Sergio Oceransky is out of jail, but not yet free. His press conference is now live here: www.facebook.com/CEPAD.GDL
A cookbook that serves as a memorial to those killed by state violence and a tribute to the women who fed them, Para el Alma is thoroughly beautiful, and well worth supporting if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/para-el-alma
Sergio Oceransky, a land defender in Yucatan has been arrested, and there's reason to worry that local land-grabbing families wish him ill in prison. Solidarity campaign news coming soon... 24horasyucatan.mx/2026/04/06/d...
Some excellent Cuba/Palestine solidarity posters reissued by Progressive International, including this favourite: an exchange of shamouti for sugar cane. progressive.international/wire/2026-04...
Today, @grocerynerd.bsky.social & @rajpatel.org discuss how private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself and how the Mamdani Admin can avoid these pitfalls!
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Errol Schweizer's interview with Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, is required reading on the JBS strike.
Carey Gillam reports the latest compendium of independent glyphosate studies, pointing to serious and long term health problems www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/scie...
They're not giving you food. They're giving you homework. SNAP restrictions and Food as Medicine prescriptions disagree about whether the poor deserve punishment or treatment — but agree it's the poor who are the problem. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/food-as-ho...
Every regenerative farmer watching fertilizer prices spike right now is feeling something the industry hates: vindication. www.euronews.com/2026/03/28/e...
The Transnational Institute is on a roll. With the news that Colombia is exiting the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, a shadowy and powerful trade court, this guide to the ISDS in Latin America is well worth keeping to hand. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
The Gates Foundation, and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, don't seem to like it when they're held to their own standards. Tim Wise reports on the fate of an independent evaluation of their African work. www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
I've just finished Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug's Living Roots, and it's an anthology for this moment, a chorus of hymns to our relationship to the land and, through it, to the rest of the web of life. Catch them at these events: landinstitute.org/news/living-...
Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—is unlikely to restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
One of the most terrifying graphs I've seen. The rate of global warming is going up, and far faster than feared. The heartbreak is that there's so much more we could have done. The hope is that we can can still do it. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
I'I've been getting a lot of calls about the industrial food system's vulnerability to fertilizer import shocks. Here's an interactive widget: slide through the months to see who imports what, when, and through which chokepoint.
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Stop the war. Stop the dependency.
Fertiliser Import Vulnerability Map
This widget shows the chokepoints and seasonal vulnerability of different countries to import shocks. The Strait of Hormuz is going to matter a great deal in the coming months....
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You can't fix the care crisis without fixing the tax system. Fair taxing rights, corporate transparency, and progressive wealth taxation should fund care as a human right—not women's unpaid labor. Vol. lII of Framing Feminist Taxation Guide out now. globaltaxjustice.org/wp-content/u...
Want to help reduce gestational hypertension and diabetes? Make sure workers have, and use, their rights. Terrific new study shows how the Fair Food Program in Florida made *many* lives better. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Adam Calo and Madeleine Fairbairn expose the white supremacist tilt of USDA demands for California to abandon farmland equity. Vital reading in Civil Eats. civileats.com/2026/03/03/t...
The Strait of Hormuz is closed just as spring planting starts. Here's a quick illustrated guide on how 'warflation' will make your food more expensive later this year: newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa...
This deep dive into the coordinated web of far-right politics is just starting. Find out more, and contribute, at reactionary.international
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International progressive.international/wire/2026-02...
What Is Innovation in Agriculture?
I'll dig into this a bit more next week in the newsletter, but here's a report to which I contributed, just out from IPES-Food, on what counts as agricultural...
It's Amazon's world. Benjamin Y. Fong continues his wonderful journey to reveal how we're just living in it. The latest at Phenomenal World: The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Class Worrier Returns
Many years ago, back when blogging was new and I was a graduate student, I ran an effort called Class Worrier. I thought I might dust it off now...
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🚨 New report from @IPESfood: Head In The Cloud
Who controls innovation in agriculture?
The report examines how Big Tech is reshaping farming – and highlights farmer-led alternatives already building resilience.
📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...
#HeadInTheCloud
5 forces reshaping food systems in 2026: Aid redesign amid scarcity; defence budgets crowd out food/climate ; trade & compliance rules squeeze small producers; “stable” prices ≠ resilience; philanthropy can’t replace public investment. odi.org/en/insights/...
Hamba kahle Susan George. Her 1988 Fate Worse than Debt connected so many dots for me. She offered clarity without jargon, rigour without deference, and a platform for scholarship in service of struggle at TNI. 91 years, very well lived. www.tni.org/en/article/s...