Social Justice

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    Moms and Anarchists Unite in March Against Monsanto: Food Re

    Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, covers a march near her home in Richmond, Virginia, talks to the March Against Monsanto founder, Tami Canal, and interviews Jeffrey Smith, the world’s foremost nonGMO consumer advocate on “the unprecedented global uprising” of this past Saturday.  See Lisa’s photos of the Richmond march here.  Watch the video of the event [...]

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    Actor Matt Damon Goes on Toilet Strike for World Water Crisi

    Caption: Co-founder of Water.org, Matt Damon, held a press conference to make an enormous announcement: until every person in the world has access to clean water and a toilet, he’s on strike. But not from acting…  For more on how you can, ahem, help by striking or supporting Matt, visit water.org.  From Water.org The Problem 3.4 [...]

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    RESTORING PEACE: Six Ways Nature In Our Lives Can Reduce Vio

    In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings, we’ve talked about gun laws and mental-health treatment, amid a host of other responses. But one potential tool has not been mentioned. Now, let me say right off that I don’t pretend that nature is a paragon of peace. Writer Herman Melville once challenged the idea [...]

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    Our Top Ten Favorite Food and Farming Movies!

    1. Food, Inc. Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking [...]

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    Social Permaculture, by Starhawk

    Patrick Whitefield calls permaculture “the art of designing beneficial relationships.” Most permaculturalists are expert at understanding the relationships between land forms and water harvesting, or between soil micro-organisms and plant health. But when it comes to our human relationships, we often founder. Nurturing the vegetables in the garden is a lot easier than nurturing our [...]