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For those of you who have followed my journey and listened to “Justice Unshackled,” you know that my life’s work has become about tearing
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Food systems, labor, and the manufactured precarity of survival
A blog about food insecurity in California and the United States of America by Marc Andrew Tager
Exploring hunger, justice, and food systems from California through the United States.
For those of you who have followed my journey and listened to “Justice Unshackled,” you know that my life’s work has become about tearing
The journey for a week’s worth of groceries begins for Maria long before she ever steps inside a store. It starts on a Tuesday
The fluorescent lights of the grocery store hum with a flat, indifferent buzz. It’s a sound I know well, the soundtrack to a thousand
narrative feature on the farmworkers who put food on our tables while skipping meals themselves. We follow a day in the fields, the commute,
The cold arrives before the sun in the Central Valley, a damp chill that seeps through layers of worn clothing. It is 4:30 a.m.
In the suspended silence of a San Joaquin Valley orchard at dawn, the reality of California agriculture reveals itself not as a pastoral ideal,