Episode #54 Notes

1:00 - How did The Common Market get started?

3:00 - Common Market business model.

3:50 - Working with foundations.

5:00 - Common Market stakeholders.

8:00 - On working with farmers and suppliers.

11:30 - On expanding CM to Georgia and Texas.

19:00 - On Houston hip hop

20:45 - COVID’s impact on CM’s operating model.

30:00 - On sourcing locally in Texas, which is highly seasonal.

35:00 - On a fair and just food system.

36:30 - Book recommendations!

Taste of Country Cooking, Edna Lewis

Parable of The Sower, Octavia Butler

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Episode #52 Notes

1:00 - What are GMOs?

5:25 - On the prevalence of GMOs.

11:00 - Gene editing vs. gene silencing.

14:30 - Private sector, financing, and GMOs.

19:00 - What’s the motivation to bring new GMOs to market?

24:30 - Labelling for GMOs.

29:00 - On The Non GMO Project.

35:30 - How do folks become Non GMO certified? How easy or difficult is it?

38:45 - Certified Organic & Non GMO; differences and similarities.

45:00 - Social justice and equity in and around the Non GMO Project.

58:20 - Book Recommendations!

Monocultures of The Mind, Vandana Shiva

GMO Myths and Truths, John Fagan

To Speak for The Trees, Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddartha Mukherjee

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Episode #51 Notes

1:00 - What does food sovereignty mean?

1:30 - What are the goals and vision for the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty?

3:20 - How are decisions made in the coalition?

4:25 - What inspired the formation of the coalition?

5:30 - What have farmers in countries like India, Philippines, Cambodia been experiencing recently?

9:00 - What role do large institutional, international relief organizations play in supporting the global south?

10:45 - On international and philanthropic relief organizations and unintended impacts in the southern hemisphere.

16:00 - What is the UN Food Systems Summit, and why is it being boycotted by some organizations?

27:00 - What is your coalitions alternative to our current food system trajectory?

31:00 - Closing thoughts.

People’s Coalition of Food Sovereignty Publications

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Episode #50 Notes

1:00 - On food sector labor organizing.

5:15 - On fast food management.

7:00 - What instigated the formation of EWOC?

13:30 - What’s the day-to-day during COVID?

17:00 - On COVID’s effect on the lives of fast food workers.

19:00 - On food service low-rates of unionization.

31:00 - What’s the next 6 months looks like for the union and organizing at Taco Bell?

35:00 - Are Taco Bell employees communicating about organizing at other locations?

45:00 - On fast food as skilled vs. unskilled labor.

51:00 - If you were running the restaurant, how would you run it?

58:20 - From expendable to dignified.

1:30:00 - Book Recommendations!

Reverend Barber

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

There Is Power In A Union, Phillip Dray

Iron Council, China Mieville

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Episode #48 Notes

0:30 - What do you mean by a “commons” and where does it orginiate?

2:30 - On The Tragedy of The Commons, and why it’s BS.

6:00 - What are some commons in our everyday lives that we might take for granted?

9:00 - How is a food commons different than our current food system?

15:50 - How do market relations interface with the commons?

30:15 - What is preferable about a food commons?

35:00 - What happens to the private market in a food commons system?

42:30 - How do social movements and activism interface with food commons?

48:00 - Book recommendations!

Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol

Free, Fair, and Alive, David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, Silvia Federici

Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin

Governing The Commons, Elinor Ostrum

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Episode #46 Notes

0:30 - What is Labor Studies, and what are your key focus areas?

7:20 - What are the benefits of unionizing for workers?

14:45 - Why has there been a decline in recent decades in private sector union jobs?

27:40 - How are non-unionized jobs effected by the lack of unions when it comes to benefits, wages, working conditions, etc.

40:30 - Gig workers, rapid hiring, and lack of unions.

43:30 - On the union-avoidance industry.

1:12 - Recommended readings!

State of the Union, Nelson Lichtenstein

Dying at Work, Jeff Pheifer

The Fissured Workplace, David Well

Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber

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