On her book I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Cover Interview of December 03, 2017
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.
The dominant premise in evolution and economics is that a person is being loyal to natural law if he or she attends to self’s interest and welfare before being concerned with the needs and demands of family or community. The public does not realize that this statement is not an established scientific principle but an ethical preference. Nonetheless, this belief has created a moral confusion among North Americans and Europeans because the evolution of our species was accompanied by the disposition to worry about kin and the collectives to which one belongs.Jerome Kagan, Interview of September 17, 2009
[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.Carolyn J. Dean, Interview of February 01, 2011
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.