Nicole Johnson is a researcher and activist living in Ventura County, California. Her kids wish she would go back to painting and stop worrying so much about the world.
“Healing ourselves is the essence of democratic development.” –Michael Parenti, final remarks, California State University, Channel Islands, March 11, 2004.
Introduction
Our nation is awakening to the fact that convenience-oriented
“The general public must recognize that only after the demystification of U.S. agriculture will family farmers, labor, and consumers see beyond corporate agribusiness’ manipulations to the point where they
