not like we ever need an excuse to promote politeness, but today is favorday. a day where you do a favor to someone you don't know. if you happen to be a member of an organized crime gang, please don't kill anyone today. check out the

if you get a chance, check out the favorday facebook event.

one of the things i love about the change you want to see gallery is the enormous bookshelf beka has amassed over the years. from art theory to obscure political philosophy, i find myself absorbed by book jackets debating which i should tackle next. after hearing beka pimp out Steve Duncombe's book Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy i decided to take it home and have fallen in love with it... filled with so many lessons, i can't stop highlighting every other word (yeah, it's that good.)

then, i was spending a few hours research a design shop named "mother" and happen to stumble on a nice blog post on obama's marketing campaign. as a political junky, i just love his "O." if you get a chance, check out these two articles (1, 2)and read how his brand works.

i saw this in my inbox and chuckled. lightly humored activism brushes this grain of grass in the right way...

COME MEET SANDOR KATZ, AGRI-ACTIVIST & AUTHOR OF THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MICROWAVED: INSIDE AMERICA’S UNDERGROUND FOOD MOVEMENTS.

When: June 8th 7-9pm

Where: The Tank, 279 Church Street between Franklin & White
No cover charge, but donations to offset our food costs are encouraged

"Sustainability is Participation," is Sandor’s motto, so please come participate in Eating Liberally’s book party for Sandor. Hear his vision for a sane, humane food chain, and share some sustainable snacks with us!

A sampling of Sandor’s candor:

“Our food system, in which barely one percent of the people produce food for the other 99% to eat, is producing diseased people, diseased land, diseased animals, and diseased economies. We must break out of the restrictive and infantalizing role of consumer. We are all inherently capable of producing food. More of us must make that a focus in order to create better food choices.”

From Amazon:

An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that.

In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz (Wild Fermentation, Chelsea Green 2003) profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.

early this week, i reposted a gothamist video from a greenpeace street action against kleenex. today, the boys and girls have a more detailed video...

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