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Book Review: Behind The Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman
By Leah Scrivener
Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), and is the newly-appointed Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley.
In her book Behind the Kitchen Door, available February 13th, Saru Jayaraman brings to light the harsh and often hidden realities of the restaurant industry. Ms. Jayaraman paints a vivid portrait of the lives of restaurant workers from across the United States, who share their stories about poor working conditions, wage theft, sexism, racism, and little to no health benefits or paid sick days.
Peasant Leader, Juan Ramón Chinchilla, from the Aguan Valley, Honduras detained
Read the original article in Huffington Post here.
El artículo en Español está abajo.
Breaking news, Honduras, February 9, 2013
Peasant leader from MUCA arrested and detained
The criminalization of social protest in the Bajo Aguán
Giorgio Trucchi—LINyM
http://nicaraguaymasespanol.blogspot.com/2013/02/ultimo-momento-honduras...
Honduras: War on the Peasants
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Tanya Kerssen
The Spanish version of this article is below.
El artículo en Español está abajo.
Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous leaders to over 60 since the Honduran coup d’etat in 2009.
Soul Food Junkies: Finally a Food Film That Doesn't Preach!
Review by Eric Holt-Giménez, February 7, 2013
Read the review on Huffington Post.
Soul Food Junkies, the documentary by Byron Hurt, was released by Independent Media Voice in 2012.
Of Myths and Men: Mark Lynas and the intoxicating power of technocracy
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
February 4, 2013
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph D, Executive Director, Food First
Read the original on Huffington Post.
Why do certain people and ideas suddenly capture the limelight while others go unnoticed? Others seem never to go away... The recent ascent of environmental writer Mark Lynas to prominence in the debate on genetically modified crops (GMOs) is a lesson in the power of myths.
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