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...locally, organically and sustainably; to support workers' rights to fair wages and debt relief for countries exploited by food-exporting corporations; to participate in community-supported agriculture; and to learn the joys of slow food. But, in the end, Stuffed and Starved is neither popular history nor an activist's handbook so much as a scholarly invitation to think more deeply about what we eat. The latte and bran muffin you consume at breakfast are historical and global products, with the power to affect environments, economies and people's lives. Understanding how they reach your table will help people...
...ruling class' isolation stands in contrast to the increased connectivity of the Burmese people. Technology has revolutionized dissent. Cell phones can now be rented for $50 a month, and a click of a button sends pictures of protests to the outside world. Aung Zaw, an exiled student activist who edits the Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based publication that covers Burmese affairs, recalls how it took nearly a month for word of student protests in the early 1990s to reach Thailand. "Now we get information about protests almost instantly," he says, "and it's then sent back to people in Burma...
...shirts are not a new fashion at all. They debuted in 2000, and they are the brainchild of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a South African AIDS advocacy group. They were conceived of as a way to combat stigma against HIV and AIDS after a South African activist in the country was killed owing to popular disapproval of her openness about her own HIV-positive status...
...Malner—who answered after Fantini and often appeared nonplussed by his bombastic speeches—acknowledged several times that he was not familiar with the issues being raised. Instead, he suggested his experience as a community activist was more valuable because it would enable him to collaborate with other members of the committee and the public...
...political activist who has been in and out of detention and house arrest for his views on topics such as the government's AIDS policy and Tibet, gives a quiet smile when reminded of the promises that the Olympics would advance the cause of human rights. Hu still gets a police escort when he goes outside, though the only visible guard on his fourth-story walk-up apartment in Beijing's eastern suburbs asks politely for accreditation, laboriously records the details, then waves visitors in with a smile. That smiling face, Hu says, is the one that Beijing is presenting...