Luis Feliz Leon
Dignity and Access | On Food and Power
Luis Feliz Leon
Back during the end of history, Thomas Friedman presented his “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” in a 1996 New York Times op-ed. As he put it, “no two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” There was “no question,” he declared, that McDonald’s “is part of this worldwide phenomenon of countries integrating with the global economy and submitting to its rules.” Today,...
Ripe for Abuse | ICE Threatens Farmworkers
Luis Feliz Leon
In March, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a farmworker who helped form the independent union Familias Unidas por la Justicia, was arrested by ICE and sent to a privately run immigrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington, where he was served inedible food. “Chicken was so undercooked that sometimes it dripped blood, and people got sick during the night,” he told the journalist David Bacon in August. Another farmworker, Jaime Alanís García, broke...
