April 30, 2008
City Council Chambers (411 Main Street)

Raj Patel's new book is a startling expose of the global food system and how activists are gaining ground against its corporate control. Raj Patel is a former policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian, and although he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he's also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.