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MN fall images
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minn. — An unnamed bog near Isabella Lake, surrounded by burned-over forest. (Photos for MPR by Steve Foss) A mound of sugar beets sits outside the American Crystal Sugar Co. processing plant in north Moorhead, … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Food, Labor (Labour), Minnesota, USA
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food stamps map
WSJ’s interactive map here. At least one in five residents in New Mexico, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oregon and Louisiana are food stamp recipients. (Thanks, NH).
Posted in Food, global economy, Maps, Oregon, USA
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No papers. No water. No words.
Read section 30 of the new Alabama immigration law HB56 (pdf) “This demonstrates the cruelty of the new law by denying the most basic facilities to people. It’s designed to make life so miserable that people self-deport, and this poster … Continue reading
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Bananas
NPR Fresh Air Bananas: A Storied Fruit with An Uncertain Future
Posted in Food, global economy, human rights, Latin America
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Sweet tooth
I was lucky enough to see Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings at the historic Fitzgerald theater last night. I’m still on a bluegrassy high…
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Food workers in Minnesota
I’m in Minnesota for the summer. I’m on vacation but many people come here to work in agriculture and food processing. MPR reports that many food workers are hungry: Every year, workers from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas gather their children … Continue reading
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On Wisconsin!
Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo. This video contains many of my favorite things: the mid west, teachers, arcade fire, unions and people sticking it to the man. In solidarity. In related news: if solidarity was a meal, … Continue reading
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“We were making money for them”
Twin Cities City Pages reports: The Chipotle restaurant chain’s mass firings of Latino workers at Minnesota restaurants continued this week, with workers at some locations fired yesterday at the end of their shifts. When [The City Pages] broke the story of the Chipolte … Continue reading
Simon Bolivar: “The best system of government is that which produces the greatest happiness.”
A U.S. Embassy in Caracas cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and published on its website, reports: “President Chavez made socialism taste better with the December 22 (2009) opening of a ‘socialist arepera’ serving Venezuelan-style tortillas at a fraction of their usual … Continue reading
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Each one, teach one
A couple of years ago, marine biologists noticed that dolphins in the wild were walking on their tails after spending some time with another dolphin, named Billie. Billie apparently learned tail-walking on her own while spending three weeks in an Australian water park called Marineland, and … Continue reading
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