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FRANCES MOORE LAPPE

50 years ago DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET

introduced millions to plant-based eating.

Today it's a crucial way to fight climate change.

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To learn more: dietforasmallplanet.org and democracymovement.us

50 years ago, FRANCES MOORE LAPPE shared a booklet about global hunger with friends in Berkeley. That booklet became DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, brought plant-based food to the mainstream, and sold over 3M copies. Today we know the food system is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gases - cattle for 14%; we understand the costly and deadly impacts of diet and obesity; and we’re aware that Ag and food employ more lobbyists than fossil fuels. The book - now in a 50th Anniversary edition with a new introduction and new recipes - has never been more needed.

In recent months, a wave of champions of the “tough on crime” approach to criminal justice have been trumpeting a spike in U.S. homicides in 2020 as fodder for rolling back critical reforms to America’s broken criminal legal system, and for scaremongering about the so-called defund the police movement. Meanwhile, criminal justice experts caution that efforts to blame the uptick in homicides on criminal justice reform aren’t just unfounded but are in fact directly contradicted by the very crime data the tough-on-crimers are trying to spin. As Fordham Law professor John Pfaff has put it: the rise in homicides last year actually “by and large took place on the status quo’s watch.”

So, for a look at what we know and what we don’t know about the 2020 crime data—and the shifting politics around criminal justice reform—Rebecca sat down with Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center and Josh Hoe, the policy analyst at Safe and Just Michigan and the host of the Decarceration Nation podcast.

For more:

Here’s an incredibly data-rich rebuttal to tough-on-crimers’ efforts to pin the uptick in homicides on reform—from John Pfaff in The New Republic

Read more on the Office of Legal Counsel memo that will send thousands of people back to prison if Biden doesn’t withdraw it

Dig into Ames’s analysis on how criminal justice involvement deepens inequality

Here’s more on the momentum for “clean slate” automatic record-clearing programs in the states—and a new bill introduced in Congress to create a federal grant program to help states cover the costs of implementing them

Leslie is joined by Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union.

The two of them analyze the newly released framework of President Biden's 'Build Back Better' reconciliation bill. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/28/president-biden-announces-the-build-back-better-framework/)

Also, Scott explains what is causing supply chain woes in the United States, and what can be done about it now.

The website for AAM is AmericanManufacturing.org and their Twitter handle is @KeepItMadeInUSA. Scott's handle is @ScottPaulAAM.

Karel Cast Free Form Friday Madonna Maybe, Unexpected Gas Attacks, 10m For Being White

Celebrities having surgery isn't knew, but why now do most need a photo of themselves from before to recognize who they are? Madonna looks fabulous, but doesn't look like, well, Madonna. Plus sometimes your body does things in public you can't control..like mine. And $10million for being a white male is going to open the door to a lot more lawsuits. Where's my money? Where's yours? Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com

Nicole Sandler 10 - 29 - 21 What's News Extended by Progressive Voices

The BradCast 10-28-2021 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 10-28-2021 by Progressive Voices

Tribalism is our worst problem right now. We are suffering from a historic lack of trust in our fellow citizens. Everyone is on edge. The Capitol has been assaulted in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election. The Senate is bout dup by the filibuster, employed to ensure the majority party can’t do a thing. The list goes on. Today, I look at tribalism.

Mind the gap! New U.N. report finds massive 'Emissions Gap' between where we are and where we need to be in cutting emissions; Plastic could become a bigger polluter than coal by 2030; PLUS: Rental car giant bets big on electric vehicles... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

Nicole Sandler 10 - 28 - 21 What's News Extended by Progressive Voices