Anna Lappé’s Selected Speech Topics and Talk Ideas

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Food and Social Movements

Learning from the Edges
Lessons from some of the world’s most important grassroots citizen movements addressing the root causes of hunger, from Bangladesh to Brazil to the Southside of Chicago.

Food Politics

Eat Grub! Putting Justice on Your Plate
How has the food industry shaped our understanding of diet, health, and organic and sustainable farming? How does our diet affect our health and the health of our environment and how can we each play a role in transforming the world.

Are We What We Eat?
Thousands of people die every year in the U.S. from obesityrelated illnesses. What is fueling this epidemic? How can we be fit and healthy and protect the earth for ourselves and for those who tend it?

Going Beyond the Food Fight: The Real Roots of Hunger
Most of the food in our supermarkets contain GMOs, but what do we really know about them? Do we need this technology to feed the hungry world? What are the real dangers and benefits?

Sustainable Futures

Finding Hope in a Time of Hopelessness
Where can we find hope at a time when we’re losing species faster than ever before, when 35,000 children die every day from hunger and preventable disease? Hear about visionaries and ordinary citizens around the globe whose work and successes give us grounds for honest hope in a time of hopelessness.


Go to the Getting a Grip blog for the latest news, links, and thoughts from Frances and the Small Planet team.

Check out the Take a Bite Out of Climate Change website for more info on Anna's latest book and information on the connection between the food on our plate and the climate crisis.

Read or download the MP3 of Voice of America's profile of Frances, "American Activist Promotes Democracy Worldwide."

"Send This to Your Republican In-Laws!" Frances on the reality of Democratic economic policy, via Huffington Post.

Visit the Small Planet Google Map for dates, locations, and directions to Frances and Anna's appearances.

Read and comment on Frances's Huffington Post blogs, including "The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist," and "NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds."

Download Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the Oxford book, A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.

Watch Frances discuss the food/democracy crisis on Democracy NOW!

Watch a short film about Frances shown at the James Beard Foundation Awards Humanitarian of the Year Award ceremony. Read her acceptance speech here.

Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine. An extended on-line interview can also be found here.

See Frances in Gourmet magazine as one of "25 People Who Changed Food in America".

Watch Frances in "A Hungry Planet," a special segment on the world hunger crisis from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's evening news broadcast, "The National."

Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring Frances on food prices and poverty.

Hear Anna on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, discussing whether higher food prices might mean that we'll eat healthier food.

Read Anna weighing in on "Some Good News on Food Prices" (NY Times).

Read "The Only Fitting Tribute," Frances's take on the New Deal written for The Nation and found also on CommonDreams.org.

Read "Hanging with Frances Moore Lappé" (Boston Globe)

Watch Anna as your guru for fair trade and safe beauty products on Howdini.com

Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your Small Planet Fund contributions help to support.

Watch Getting a Grip on Money & Politics, Frances' & Anthony's film about the "Best Kept Secret in America!"

Read Anna's blog as she continues the call to Eat Grub!

• Frances's first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was chosen among 75 Books by Women whose Words have Changed the World


Read more about Frankie’s book, Democracy’s Edge

Read “Creating Real Prosperity” by Frances, in Yes! Magazine and AlterNet

Read "Big Apple to go Trans-Fat Free" by Anna in Alternet

Read News from Brazil’s Zero-Hunger Campaign

• Hear Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now

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Friday, September 5th, 2008, time TBA
Visiting Speaker
Albuquerque Academy
Simms Auditorium
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM
Frances

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Just Food presents Let Us Eat Local
Event to celebrate the 2008 honorees
of the McKinley Hightower Beyah Award
Long Island City, NY
Anna

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