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 is the author of the new book "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy."
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Freedom is a Constant
Struggle TV show, November 7, 2008.
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 Berkeleys 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 new book The Value of
Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.
Authors Bio: Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kiilu hosts a weekly TV program, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle," on SF Live (Comcast 76 and AT&T 99). She writes for several publications, including the SF Bay View Newspaper and BlackCommentator.com. Also an accomplished radio programmer, she has worked for KPFA (Berkeley), SF Liberation Radio, Free Radio Berkeley, and KPOO in SF. For more about her, please visit www.kiilunyasha.blogspot.com