Grain
Grain
Over the past twenty-five years, GRAIN, an international NGO has worked with social movements and organizations around the world to defend local food systems and cultures from the advance of industrial agriculture. But another important part of its work has involved connecting this analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet and linking peoples' struggles situated within the food system to those happening in other areas. Climate change is one important example of this.
P. Govinda Pillai
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Carol Schick
Carol Schick is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
V.I. Lenin
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Eduardo Galeano
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Leo Huberman
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Teodor Shanin
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Akshay Khanna
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Sayyid Ahmad Khan
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Anand Chakravarti
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Debasree De
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Raymond Williams
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Omar Barghouti
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Krishna Mohan Shrimali
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Immanuel Ness
Immanuel Ness (b. 1958) is an activist and scholar who teaches at the Brooklyn College of the City University, New York.
Harsh Mander
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