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3P-068 12 Local Ordinances for Food Security
Published on 2011-03-13 12:20:32
In this episode we describe 12 local ordinances that towns could use to protect food production and community sovereignty. These include distinguishing between agribusiness and smallholder farms, enabling sustainable student swaps, authorizing Backyard Farmer and Kitchen Baker Markets, allowing free trade between neighbors, and networking with other towns reclaiming their producer rights. First among these [...]
3P-067 Rhetorical Devisives or Two Half-Truths Don’t Make a Whole
Published on 2011-02-06 18:44:05
In Rhetorical Devisives we demonstrate the importance of the Trivium education from ancient Greece: grammar, logic, and rhetoric, to learn how to think rather than what to think. Julian Assange is given as an example of someone who uses classical techniques to identify and rebut Ad Hominem and Lunatic Fringe attacks. We define blood libel from James Carroll's book on anti-Semiticism in the Church, Constantine's Sword, which shows how Sarah Palin twisted it into an opposite meaning.
3P-066 Peru and the Free2Raid Agreement plus Bonus Interview
Published on 2011-01-11 19:29:13
In Peru and the Free2Raid Agreement, we ask whether free trade between countries is really a free-to-raid deal between dictators and corporate investors. We give the history of the 2007 Peru FTA and show how Democrats, labor unions, churches, human rights organizations, and environmental groups were divided and conquered to pass it, and what its effects have been in the North and South.
