Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

by Lana Dee Povitz

Book Overview

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146965301X
• ISBN13: 9781469653013
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"