On her book I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Cover Interview of December 04, 2017
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Jump into Chapter 4: Has anyone talked with these guys?
It gives a sense of what a great, and encouraging, story this is. The Prologue
gives a short but comprehensive overview of what most readers, to include
myself when I first came to learn of the CIW, likely aren’t aware of: the dark,
brutal, and, shockingly, continuing story of agricultural labor in the United
States. If policy is your thing (and, I must admit that it is mine), the last
two chapters focus on why the Fair Food Program has worked, insights on what it
takes to make sustainable social change, and why the Fair Food Program is a
transformational model for the future.
Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.Daryn Lehoux, Interview of November 13, 2017
It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.Christopher Rea, Interview of October 26, 2016
A close-up
Jump into Chapter 4: Has anyone talked with these guys? It gives a sense of what a great, and encouraging, story this is. The Prologue gives a short but comprehensive overview of what most readers, to include myself when I first came to learn of the CIW, likely aren’t aware of: the dark, brutal, and, shockingly, continuing story of agricultural labor in the United States. If policy is your thing (and, I must admit that it is mine), the last two chapters focus on why the Fair Food Program has worked, insights on what it takes to make sustainable social change, and why the Fair Food Program is a transformational model for the future.