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 …
Tamil Tactics in Toronto
New Orleans A classic organizing problem has always been how do popular forces leverage local strength around global concerns? This question has always been difficult as anti-war forces saw most recently in trying to raise issues around Iraq and as 60’s veterans vividly remember from the protests to stop the Viet Nam war a world …
Sin Nombre and Gomorrah
New Orleans We saw two back-to-back powerful movies, Sin Nombre and Gomorrah, both of which spoke profoundly and movingly to our work and why it is so life-and-death to our people. Sin Nombre was an extra treat because the writer and director, Cary Fukunaga, was in the audience and answered questions at the end of …