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Truth teller focused on inequality, poverty, trauma, and racism DrMarianaChilton.com
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Support your local bookstore
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& find my book for your kindhearted courageous auntie, kid, mom and dad. Great discussion topics all around.
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The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--And Start Again a book by Mariana Chilton
A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on prom...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-painful-truth-about-hunger-in-america-why-we-must-unlearn-everything-we-think-we-knowand-start-again-mariana-chilton/21029129
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Fantastic piece by Andy Fisher -> Trumpâs Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-h...
#FoodInsecurity
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Trumpâs Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism
Donât forget that food insecurity has long been a feature of Republican politics, not a bug.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-hunger-agenda-and-the-cruel-logic-of-capitalism/
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The Contrarian
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It wonât be a shortage of food, but rather the surplus of political hate & corporate greed thatâll ravage the global food supply as we know it
@marianachilton.bsky.social
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Food is not the hunger-ending hero we think it is
The world has enough food. It's who controls the food that's the problem.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/food-is-not-the-hunger-ending-hero
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Glad NYT finally covering this. One of the most important injustices behind by these illegal firings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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In Trumpâs Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU8.V3DA.wYZU5MdpFzTW&smid=bs-share
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3 months ago
đ„ city-owned grocery stores letâs gooo!
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đ„ About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk. Jonathan Schwabish for
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www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
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About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk.
Households that rely on both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are spread throughout the country.
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/about-12-million-households-receive-both-medicaid-and-snap-reconciliation-bill-puts-them
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My first piece with
@contrariannews.org
Were working with monsters - we need to step it up.
substack.com/@contrarian/...
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The Contrarian (@contrarian)
With the passage of the Reconciliation Act, Republicans gutted a lifeline for millions while boosting corporate profits. @Mariana Chilton warns the real monster here is an insatiable hunger for power ...
https://substack.com/@contrarian/note/c-138571414?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=553kil
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Glad to see NYT piece like this from a genocide scholar. Finally. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | Iâm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk8.wdpR.YWVpRuV9Qgrt&smid=bs-share
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The Tennessee Holler
5 months ago
ICYMI: âRep.
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Acyn
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McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."Â If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
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Thorough, fantastic article about abuse of power and overreach of trauma specialists & CPS
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Truthout
5 months ago
The bill bars agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement unless medically necessary or required for safety.
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Rep. VelĂĄzquez Touts Bill to Unmask ICE Agents During Rally at NYC Field Office
The bill bars agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement unless medically necessary or required for safety.
https://buff.ly/tIOheed
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Great piece- plz read it. Heartbreaking, heart rending. Let's keep up the fight for trans rights. Gift article from New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/supreme-court-trans-care.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.k6Kt.IoDn4j8ztzW0&smid=bs-share
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Rumpus admin carries out yet another betrayal of tribal govts. in Pacific northwest. Destroys a "deal" 10 yrs in the making to return water/salmon rights. Gift article here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...
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Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/trump-withdraws-from-agreement-with-tribes-to-protect-salmon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.1slq.O2lemsiMYkBn&smid=bs-share
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
5 months ago
Low-income families could lose food assistance entirely if their state canât afford new
#SNAP
cost-sharing rules proposed in the Senate Agriculture Committeeâs reconciliation proposal. See how states could be impacted:
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Research Note: Senate Republican Leadersâ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/senate-republican-leaders-proposal-risks-deep-cuts-to-food-assistance-some
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Outstanding piece. Damning & grief filled. Touches the deepest places in me, as I try to stay human and loving. Plz read whole thing.
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Fantastic analysis of massive inequalities in global economies, w. Policy recommendations for change
wid.world/news-article...
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, GastĂłn Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
https://wid.world/news-article/unequal-exchange-and-north-south-relations/
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Big thanks to Chris Costanzo for the very careful & tender read of Painful Truthâ and to
@fooddatanerd.com
for sharing! â€ïž
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The gut punch news of how cuts in nutrition assistance programs and local buying programs affect farmers who grow good food.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...
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A Peach and Apple Farmerâs Uphill Quest to Feed Poor Families, and His Own
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/illinois-farmers-agriculture-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.hIKJ.-i6g0d5Zky-c&smid=bs-share
6 months ago
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It's overwhelming, unbearable. And yet, the people who say they work on hunger in US are silent. I'll be coming back into the fray. I just need a little more time to get my lungs & vocal chords back. Meantime, plz read. Gift article The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...
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In Emaciated Children, Gazaâs Hunger Is Laid Bare
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/world/middleeast/gaza-children-hunger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.O0IY.eee-UC2w1_D-&smid=bs-share
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Sad for this news. I admire his humility and integrity. Here's a gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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José Mujica, Leftist President of Uruguay Known for Humility, Dies at 89
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/obituaries/jose-mujica-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.tq08.89ZyEBaaPRkD&smid=url-share
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People. This violence & indifference is intentional -- how is it that we allow it? The same way we allow "milder" forms of child hunger.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Children Suffer From Malnutrition as Israelâs Blockade of Gaza Continues
It has been over 60 days since Israel ordered a halt to all humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Israel says the siege will continue until Hamas releases all of its hostages.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010146471/gaza-israel-middle-east-hunger.html?smid=url-share
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Tough read of the truth:
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...
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Four reasons why Israelâs ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world
Israelâs ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four-reasons-why-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-west-bank-is-being-accepted-by-the-world/?ml_recipient=149577795141371170&ml_link=149577725167798086&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-04-11&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation
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Good overview of the purge and its consequences.
www.thenation.com/authors/greg...
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Gregg Gonsalves
Gregg Gonsalves is The Nationâs public health correspondent and codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate professor of
https://www.thenation.com/authors/gregg-gonsalves/
7 months ago
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Brilliant analysis and warning. Listen to the whole thing.
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8 months ago
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Brilliant essay by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the dangers of privatization of public health infrastructure. We're careening toward disaster if we don't intervene. Here's the "gift" link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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Opinion | Covidâs Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear (Gift Article)
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/covid-public-health-privatization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.204.VIEg.EbrBbYwF-D_A&smid=url-share
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Greatest speech i've heard in a LONG time - Thank you, Chris Hedges. Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pn...
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Chris Hedges FULL SPEECH at Workers Strike Back Conference
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PnryeLUwQ&ab_channel=TheChrisHedgesYouTubeChannel
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9 months ago
Americans want universal healthcare, not a colony on Mars. And donât tell me itâs about âinnovation.â Making sure every American has housing, food, and healthcare is innovation, too.
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Thanks for calling it! The ugly truth comes out when ppl are under pressure.
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50501: The Peopleâs Movement âđ
9 months ago
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at
https://buff.ly/417VjtT
, or create one.
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SassyMetisChick
9 months ago
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, âChalchiuhtlicueyecatlâ. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
9 months ago
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement â an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For moreâand to signâ go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
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Another in a long line of distressing fires. The CFPB protected all of us from predatory lending, bilking, extortion & other forms of extractive capitalism. Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...
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Trump Administration Fires Consumer Bureau Chief Rohit Chopra (Gift Article)
Rohit Chopra, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/business/cfpb-rohit-chopra.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk4.1C_D.UAREpqrc9hbu&smid=bs-share
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Just got word my interview has been posted by dear friends in Vancouver, BC Canada Such a deep conversation with Ian Marcuse
www.vancouverfoodjustice.ca/latest-news/...
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Interview with Mariana Chilton, Author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again â Vancouver Food Justice Coalition
Thank you for talking with me today. Your new book The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again has helped clarify my thinking and is a cr...
https://www.vancouverfoodjustice.ca/latest-news/interview-with-mariana-chilton-author-of-the-painful-truth-about-hunger-in-america-why-we-must-unlearn-everything-we-think-we-know-and-start-again
10 months ago
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Please pay attention people - How Tyranny Begins It began many years ago, & will only get worse if we don't resist.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesnât happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009923409/government-oppression-power-tyranny.html?smid=bs-share
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The best news - finally
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Good perspective on prison labor & firefighting. Deeply distressing.
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Rachel Shabi
10 months ago
It's US publication day for my new book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Wh...
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Off-White
Why can't we talk about antisemitism? 'I cannot wait for Off-White to be read, debated and put into practice.' Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger ...
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-White/Rachel-Shabi/9780861548378
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10 months ago
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#guaranteedincome
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Visited
@powells.bsky.social
in search of two books. Found them both. Been looking for Sacco's book for weeks & needed mine last minute. Wish more bookstores were like Powell's. I could live there.
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Big thanks to MIT Press for believing in this project!
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Check it out: The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re...
#Food
#Politics
#SocialJustice
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The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
I tried to overhaul a system meant to help people in need, but it was designed to fail.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-reality-of-public-assistance-programs/
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Check out an except from my book: Painful Truth about Hunger in America. Plz me know what you think!
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re...
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The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
I tried to overhaul a system meant to help people in need, but it was designed to fail.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-reality-of-public-assistance-programs/
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The âPage 99â test is mind blowing. I invite you to page 99 of my bookâ lots going on there. Take a peakđ
americareads.blogspot.com/2025/01/pg-9...
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Pg. 99: Mariana Chilton's "The Painful Truth about Hunger in America"
Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--and Start Again b...
http://americareads.blogspot.com/2025/01/pg-99-mariana-chiltons-painful-truth.html
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Profoundly beautiful essay. Timothy Morton: On Ecotrauma
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/timothy-mort...
#ClimateChange
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Timothy Morton: On Ecotrauma
âTo exist is to inhabit overlapping ripples of trauma."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/timothy-morton-on-ecotrauma/
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So great! Lays it out plain. New book from Joe Sacco
www.haaretz.com/life/2024-12...
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Joe Sacco on Gaza war: 'This is Israel's genocide, but it is also America's'
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https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-12-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/joe-sacco-on-gaza-war-this-is-israels-genocide-but-it-is-also-americas/00000193-def6-d184-a5bf-fffe59ff0000
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Finally, Canada food bank CEOâs are speaking up about bogus charity model. If only Feeding America food banks in USA would do the same.
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Food banks across Canada are begging to be put out of business | CBC Radio
Several food charities across Canada have signed onto a campaign called "Put Food Banks Out of Business."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/put-food-banks-out-of-business-1.7400069
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12 months ago
1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
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12 months ago
wrote up a few important & enlightening books for
@civileats.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
12 months ago
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that itâs a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe itâs true
zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
âWe will look back and say, âWhy did we not do more earlier?â Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
https://zeteo.com/p/amnesty-concludes-israel-genocide-gaza
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Thrilled to be included by
@civileats.com
top books of the year. Check it out!
civileats.com/2024/12/03/o...
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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide
Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have curated a list of over two dozen recipe, food, and farming books for the 2024 holiday season.
https://civileats.com/2024/12/03/our-2024-food-and-farming-holiday-book-gift-guide/
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