Sublime

In the last decades of the twentieth century, as the justice system was adopting a set of abrasive policies that would swell police forces and fuel the prison boom, it was also leaving more and more policing responsibilities to citizens without a badge and a gun.3 What about the pawnshop owner who sold the gun? Isn’t he partially responsible for th

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Musa Majid’s bodega business had a guiding policy—an underlying logic. Getting from place to place was neither easy nor simple for people living in some sections of New York. So, local neighborhood people shop at a nearby bodega, despite its tiny stock compared with suburban grocery stores. Musa’s connections within the Yemeni community were a subs

loads of recognition for the organic produce she donates to neighboring schools and agricultural events.

Globally, freshwater resources are by no means equally distributed. In fact, 2.3 billion people in twenty-one countries live in geo-graphies that are designated “water-stressed basins,” which means that there are only 1000 to 1700 cubic meters of water per person per year. Another 1.7 billion, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization

called the city attorney to find out the marchers’ rights and our city’s rights.

I REMEMBER RIDICULING Hubert Humphrey’s comment that if we all just ate one less hamburger a week, the hunger crisis would be conquered.

According to data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, providing the additional calories needed by the 13 percent of the world who are facing hunger would require just 3 percent of the current global food supply. Consider that against the fact that around 30 percent of the world’s food supply is lost in post-harvest processing, wasted i