consuming culture: a story of halves and have-nots
what creates real safety?
food, housing, education...let's talk about the 1st one, FOOD!
Come join us
this wednesday, august 20th at 8pm
for a multi-media performance about the global food crisis
consuming culture: a story of halves and have-nots:
Anna Whitehead and Michelle Posadas from Philadelphia host
an evening of theatre, song, shadow puppetry and antics.
A benefit show's for Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference!
Come find out more!
This wednesday, August 20th, 8pm at Lazizza's, 2106 Chartres
and Frenchmen Street. suggested donation $5-10.
see you there!
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Access to food rests on the power of imbalance. Governments
spar with their people and each other as the global climate
shifts, fueling violent struggle all over the world, and the
collapse of our culinary traditions. consuming culture: a story
of halves and have-nots is a multi-media performance of
gastronomical proportions. Anna Whitehead and Michelle
Posadas from Philadelphia host an evening of theatre, song,
shadow puppetry and antics. These are the musings of two
half-breeds confronting their own oppressor/oppressed
identities over coffee table conversations, milk chugging,
and a giant refrigerator. As they navigate the rising waters
of the global food crisis, the audience is encouraged to consider
all of our roles in the current food epidemic and possible
steps toward change.
food, housing, education...let's talk about the 1st one, FOOD!
Come join us
this wednesday, august 20th at 8pm
for a multi-media performance about the global food crisis
consuming culture: a story of halves and have-nots:
Anna Whitehead and Michelle Posadas from Philadelphia host
an evening of theatre, song, shadow puppetry and antics.
A benefit show's for Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference!
Come find out more!
This wednesday, August 20th, 8pm at Lazizza's, 2106 Chartres
and Frenchmen Street. suggested donation $5-10.
see you there!
-----------------------------------------
Access to food rests on the power of imbalance. Governments
spar with their people and each other as the global climate
shifts, fueling violent struggle all over the world, and the
collapse of our culinary traditions. consuming culture: a story
of halves and have-nots is a multi-media performance of
gastronomical proportions. Anna Whitehead and Michelle
Posadas from Philadelphia host an evening of theatre, song,
shadow puppetry and antics. These are the musings of two
half-breeds confronting their own oppressor/oppressed
identities over coffee table conversations, milk chugging,
and a giant refrigerator. As they navigate the rising waters
of the global food crisis, the audience is encouraged to consider
all of our roles in the current food epidemic and possible
steps toward change.
posted by the good shepherd at
2:11 AM
4 Comments:
except for the guilt-mongering about "the audience is encouraged to consider all of our roles in the current food epidemic and possible
steps toward change" this sounds great. i don't have ANY control over the global food economy, and neither do you, fellow reader. we eat at the whim of those few who control everything with their vast fortunes and powerful institutions. don't be guilty, be pissed!
well I mean if you eat veal or whatever you in your miniscule way create a demand for it, and if you phone up your grocer and are like "I demand kiwis in august" and start a letter-writing campaign asking for year-round kiwis I suppose you are playing a reasonably active role.
But I do agree that the psuedo-political-progressive obsession with one's own eating habits is totally bourgie and deserving of the guillotine.
hi, this is the 2nd 'anonymous' again. If you strike out against poultry plants (hello fbi) that is a step towards change.
But in my book, 'consciousness' and 'awareness' of one's own role and complicity in [insert system disapproved of] usually lead less to action and more to mere masturbatory liberal self-interest... oh let me Calculate my Carbon Footprint again with this iPhone App, let me google the history of the harvested-cork component of these Whole Foods sandals, let me ask the 3-dollar-an-hour waitress where the gluten in the ranch dressing's derived from...
not only is it self-interested (good analysis by the way), but it distracts from blaming the institutions that shape the way we live.
they are the real cause of why things are the way they are in the US, its not our lack of self-control (xtianity anyone?) or consciousness.
and those institutions are more or less controlled by the wealthy elite to further their agenda.
but the institutions can continue functioning to those ends without the input of the elite, because they are set up to (and have thrived and become dominant forces precisely because they)always push in that direction regardless.
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