Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, September 18, 2009
Our
guest, Raj Patel is a writer, activist and academic. He has degrees
from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and
Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been
tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He's currently
a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an
Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at The Institute for Food and
Development Policy, also known as Food First.
He was recently
invited to share his views on the global food crisis in testimony to
the US House Financial Services Committee and is an Advisor to the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. In addition to
numerous scholarly publications, he regularly writes for The Guardian,
and has contributed to the LA Times, NY Times.com, The San Francisco
Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer. His first book is
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and he
is the author of the forthcoming book "The Value of Nothing: How to
Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy".
http://www.rajpatel.org
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