Latest interview: Roger Thurow, author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in the Age of Plenty. He's a man on a mission - having left a 30 year reporting career at the Wall Street Journal to work on international agricultural policy full-time.  It was all about Africa, he told me - the Green Revolution of the 1970's that increased farming yield never made it to the motherland and the food aid and international development and trade policies are self-interested and do not feed hungry people in the long-term. Turns ...

[Aimee Allison | OaklandSeen] Hassani, you are our son. In the six months since you have been missing, the community hasn't forgotten you. We're doubling our resolve to make Oakland a city where all children - ignored, vulnerable, poor - are safe and protected. The small group that held a candlelight vigil speaks for thousands of us - we want the police to continue to investigate the case. More than that, we want to understand where the system that places and tracks foster care children has failed, and what we can do to fix it. Thanks ...

Aimee Allison, Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp Keynote Speech 2007 where she muses about "retooling" for the long haul and the importance of people who work for change. Download this episode (right click and save)

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