New Orleans The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) slapped around General Mills and its Cherrios’ cereal for making inflated health claims about reducing cholesterol, making those little “o’s” something more like a drug than food. Ironically, this news hit at the same time as the stories on the passing of Robert Choate, the consumer food advocate …
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Los Angeles When you read this on Friday, I will be somewhere near Saturday flying across the Pacific to Sydney, Australia as part of the Organizers’ Forum delegation to yet another new country where few, if any, of us have ever been in order to find out what organizing looks like for workers and communities …
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New Orleans Two other guests spoke to the headquarters staff on this recent evening after Ercilia, Dr. David Egilman, and Dr. Fernando Mora Carrasco. David and Fernando had spent the day talking to both the ACORN International staff and the ACORN national staff about a way to align our community organizing work with a …