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	<title>IMAGINE 2050 &#187; Food Justice</title>
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		<title>Cross-Post: HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ should have taken focus on food system change further</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/19/cross-post-hbos-weight-of-the-nation-should-have-taken-focus-on-food-system-change-further/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/19/cross-post-hbos-weight-of-the-nation-should-have-taken-focus-on-food-system-change-further/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 13:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Weight of the Nation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on May 16, 2012 by Grist. The Weight of the Nation — a four-part mini-series that ran this week on HBO (and online) — has received a lot of attention. Produced in coordination with several federal government agencies &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/19/cross-post-hbos-weight-of-the-nation-should-have-taken-focus-on-food-system-change-further/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Post: The Real Food Chain</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/05/cross-post-the-real-food-chain/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/05/cross-post-the-real-food-chain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain Workers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Joann Lo at Resistinc.org. Deathrice Jimerson works in warehouses outside of Chicago. Chicago is a major logistics hub, the only place in North America where six Class I railroads (the largest type of railroad) meet, connecting all &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/05/cross-post-the-real-food-chain/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>USDA&#8217;s Blueprint for Stronger Service Budget Cuts Hurt the Heartland</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/02/14/usdas-blueprint-for-stronger-service-budget-cuts-hurt-the-heartland/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/02/14/usdas-blueprint-for-stronger-service-budget-cuts-hurt-the-heartland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Competition Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Justice Antitrust Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Assistance Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIPSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grain Inspection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice Antitrust Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Staff Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockyards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockyards Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Vilsack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Us Department Of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usda Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA’s Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Agriculture Department (USDA) and Secretary Tom Vilsack have been busy the past couple of months shopping their budget and staff reduction package, Blueprint for Stronger Service, which is purported to assist industry producers and move our economy &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/02/14/usdas-blueprint-for-stronger-service-budget-cuts-hurt-the-heartland/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Race and Food: Journal Exposes the Racial Structure of the Food System</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/13/race-and-food-journal-exposes-the-racial-structure-of-the-food-system/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/13/race-and-food-journal-exposes-the-racial-structure-of-the-food-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Organizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Worker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Contexts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Food Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana University Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Initiative Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sense Of Urgency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Center for New Community, and Indiana University Press today announce the publication of “Food Justice,” a new issue of the journal Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts that explores the intersection &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/13/race-and-food-journal-exposes-the-racial-structure-of-the-food-system/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Inequality For Sale at a Grocery Store (Maybe) Near You</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/03/social-inequality-for-sale-at-a-grocery-store-maybe-near-you/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/03/social-inequality-for-sale-at-a-grocery-store-maybe-near-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African American Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Descent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eye Opener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Giant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greeters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grocery Carts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grocery Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handwritten Signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hummus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Grocery Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low Income Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piggly Wiggly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plexiglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Store Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal Mart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whole Foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whole Foods Market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a holiday “final-minute-before-closing” run to the local grocery store on December 31, I experienced a food justice eye-opener. I rushed into a store while carrying a bag from a previous purchase, zooming right past a man stationed near the &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/03/social-inequality-for-sale-at-a-grocery-store-maybe-near-you/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiolog: the Perils of Industrialized Food Production</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/06/food-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/06/food-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Acee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audiolog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodity Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earl Butz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Born Illnesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pollan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nixon Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salmonella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary Of Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent outbreaks of food born illnesses like listeria and salmonella only serve to reinforce that we are all eating from a poisoned food system. This episode of Imagine2050&#8242;s audio blog traces our current industrialized system of food production back &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/06/food-safety/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Occupying the Food Chain</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/05/occupying-the-food-chain/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/05/occupying-the-food-chain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Average Earnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Average Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backdrop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catalyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fcwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hundreds Of Thousands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Litany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Member Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negative Circumstances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Ways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Food System]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=10763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With a litany of negative circumstances impacting people in this country, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has become both a beacon of hope and a catalyst for change, as so many are feeling that their voices and actions can actually make &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/05/occupying-the-food-chain/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks to the Immigrants Working the Processing Plant Floors</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giving Thanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hog Farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hormel Foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Of Plenty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat And Poultry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant Floors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Plant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Production Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southeast Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Of Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Feast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey Farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Food And Commercial Workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=10643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Thanksgiving holiday here, I’d like to take a moment to talk about the workers who process and pack the turkeys that so many of us will consume.    When I drive through the state of Iowa and all across &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds Attend Protest March to Oakland Area Trader Joe&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/09/hundreds-attend-protest-march-to-oakland-area-trader-joes/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/09/hundreds-attend-protest-march-to-oakland-area-trader-joes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1-cent per pound increase in pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cfsc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Of Immokalee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Food Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Food Security Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downtown Oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fcwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain Workers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Security Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health And Safety Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Merritt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Member Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Fair Food Campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Occupy Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trader Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trader Joe's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Conditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a sign of continued resistance and struggle, Occupy Oakland watched as another group of protesters took to the streets this past weekend. On Sunday over 200 participants from the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) conference marched two miles to &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/09/hundreds-attend-protest-march-to-oakland-area-trader-joes/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Post: USDA recalls beef headed for Georgia school lunches</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/25/cross-post-usda-recalls-beef-headed-for-georgia-school-lunches/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/25/cross-post-usda-recalls-beef-headed-for-georgia-school-lunches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beef Recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E Coli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety And Inspection Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Beef Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National School Lunch Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Lunch Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Lunches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U S Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on CNN.com by the CNN Wire Staff. (CNN) &#8212; The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a Class I recall for 40,000 pounds of ground beef products intended for Georgia school lunches, due to possible E. coli contamination. The &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/25/cross-post-usda-recalls-beef-headed-for-georgia-school-lunches/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Deteriorating Safety Conditions Facing Somali Workers in Minnesota&#8217;s Meat Processing Plants</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/16/the-deteriorating-safety-conditions-facing-somali-workers-in-minnesotas-meat-processing-plants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garat Ibrahim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenneo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Threatening Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melrose Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Probationary Periods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow Down the Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow Down the Line Petition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superiors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Job Status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The general level of safety of Somali workers has been eroding for some time inside the Jenneo plant in Melrose, Minnesota, but today I would like to share with you a story of one worker who has endured tremendous challenges—challenges &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/16/the-deteriorating-safety-conditions-facing-somali-workers-in-minnesotas-meat-processing-plants/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Down the Line: Safer Food, Safer Workers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/09/slow-down-the-line-safer-food-safer-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Axel Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contaminated Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Processing Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Processing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetic Manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injustices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outbreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salmonella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sausages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey Meat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years cases of contaminated food being sold to consumers have been frighteningly frequent. As is the case of the recent outbreak of Turkey meat contaminated with salmonella, which at the time of writing has already claimed one life. &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/09/slow-down-the-line-safer-food-safer-workers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“How does the neighborhood I live in affect my access to good quality food?”</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/29/%e2%80%9chow-does-the-neighborhood-i-live-in-affect-my-access-to-good-quality-food%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disparities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disparity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hispanic Households]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latino Activists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-income communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Gap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a recent discussion about food justice, a group of artists and activists posed several questions to one another and their communities. The questions touched on a wide range of factors that affect the U.S. food system and &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/29/%e2%80%9chow-does-the-neighborhood-i-live-in-affect-my-access-to-good-quality-food%e2%80%9d/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meat-Packing Workers Coalesce after Attack by Supervisor</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hog Head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many of us know, immigrants are often exploited in the workplace, but many of us aren’t privy to the severe impunity, even physical violence, that their supervisors sometimes display. Such was the case a couple weeks ago when a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Dinner Tables and the Cost of Human Lives (en Español tambien)</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/24/our-dinner-tables-and-the-cost-of-human-lives-en-espanol-tambien/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/24/our-dinner-tables-and-the-cost-of-human-lives-en-espanol-tambien/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Axel Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agricultural Field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ammonia Leak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau Of Labor Statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cane Field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Basis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dinner Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fayetteville Nc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harsh Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry Businesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life And Limb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Isabel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountaire Farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonfatal Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Maria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Us Department Of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Breaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Español mas abajo) Frighteningly, the cases of workers dying while harvesting or processing the food we consume on daily basis in this country are frighteningly frequent. Though they are exposed to different threats and dangers across their respective industries of &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/24/our-dinner-tables-and-the-cost-of-human-lives-en-espanol-tambien/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Refugee Struggles in Minnesota&#8217;s Meat-Packing Plants</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/17/refugee-struggles-in-minnesotas-meat-packing-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/17/refugee-struggles-in-minnesotas-meat-packing-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garat Ibrahim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bathroom Breaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injustices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa Nebraska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennie O Turkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennie-O]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lunch Breaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marshall Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two decades the trend of Somali refugees moving from their war torn homeland to America, so often finding work in small meat packing plants, has had a profound impact in small towns across the Midwest and the &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/17/refugee-struggles-in-minnesotas-meat-packing-plants/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing on the Killing Room Floor</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bathroom Breaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cumulative Trauma Disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eating Meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preliminary Investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proper Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Kevin Bascue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson Fresh Meats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where animals are slaughtered and processed, where the meat is portioned and packaged, several dangerous elements exist. Processing plants in this country dispense with over 400 head of cattle per hour, which from living animal to fully processed meat is &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blame a Poisoned, Inhumane Food System . . . Not Sprouts</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/13/blame-a-poisoned-inhumane-food-system-not-sprouts/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/13/blame-a-poisoned-inhumane-food-system-not-sprouts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Acee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti Biotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bean Sprouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E Coli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E Coli Outbreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foodie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gourmet Meats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locavore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poisonous Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Outcry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Strain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Health officials and news pundits are blaming bean sprouts for the latest outbreak of E.coli in Europe, which has killed at least 22 and sickened over 2000. But the real culprit is a diseased and dysfunctional food system where the &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/13/blame-a-poisoned-inhumane-food-system-not-sprouts/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Contract Workers in the Belly of the Food System</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centro de Tabajadores Unidos en Lucha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Cleaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cub Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain Workers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunger Strikers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janitorial Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squalid Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage Contract]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A block-long tent city of pickets and placards lines a main thoroughfare on the south side of Minneapolis, just off  the property of a huge Cub Food supermarket.  Hunger strikers supporting low-wage contract food system workers underscore the irony of &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrants are Vital to Our Communities</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Collar Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrespect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Customs Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Nationality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Nationality Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proper Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back workers were let go from their jobs at a local processing plant in Iowa due to discrepancies with their immigration status. I started to get calls on a cold Monday in January. Workers were in a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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