Tag: activism

• // progress vs. despair

  

    As the year draws to a close, I’m struck by the marked—and somewhat encouraging—disconnect between top-down and grassroots forces at play in the U.S. right now. The government has been an utter disappointment in so many ways, from directly undermining economic, racial, and gender equity to making us the only country in the world…

  TKM

  December 11, 2017

  environment, poetry

  #ActOnClimate, #MeToo, activism, climate change, COP23, Drawdown, National Poetry Series, poetry, Seeing White

• // double fake-out

    Today in Berfrois, a conversation with my partner in crime, writer/musician/film devotee Gregory Giles, on how being cavalier can give rise to meaningful activism: Luc Moullet’s Double Fake-Out; or, Tracking Food Sovereignty in the ’70s ICYMI, I did an interview with Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts earlier this year, and the journal has also published…

  TKM

  September 17, 2015

  environment, press

  activism, Berfrois, documentary, film, food justice, food sovereignty, French New Wave, La Nouvelle Vague, Luc Moullet

• // 40 years fighting hunger

  

    Since early 2015, I’ve been co-editing Food First’s 40th anniversary retrospective anthology, Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building, with research coordinator Tanya Kerssen. Having spent several months selecting and organizing excerpts, we’re moving into the proofing and design phase. We now have a cover, which I’m excited to share: My…

  TKM

  July 27, 2015

  environment, press

  activism, editing, food justice, food sovereignty