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May 8, 2013 | Group Think

The Stone Soup we made outside the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition last month tasted a lot like minestrone with a dash of free speech. Over 300 safe food activists from across America — including children, parents … MORE

Two New Films Address American Poverty

March 10, 2013 | News & Notes

American Winter and A Place at the Table put different faces on inequality in America.

Saru Jayaraman on Justice for Restaurant Workers

February 22, 2013

Activist Saru Jayaraman marches with restaurant workers struggling to make ends meet, and talks about how we can best support their right to a fair wage. Continue reading

In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2011, Andrew McLeod, a student from the Colors Hospitality Opportunities Workers (CHOW) Institute, pours a lemon-caper sauce on a plate of monk fish and carrots as he works in the kitchen learning culinary arts skills at Colors Restaurant in New York. The restaurant-cooperative was founded by workers from the Windows of the World Restaurant, located in the World Trade Center, who survived the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

“Behind the Kitchen Door” Author Encourages Diners to Speak Out

February 20, 2013 | Take Action

Activist and author Saru Jayaraman urges Americans to support better pay and working conditions for waiters and kitchen staff in restaurants. Continue reading

Family using the Feeding America program

Fighting Hunger in America

July 26, 2012

Volunteer at a local food pantry and help members of your community who are struggling to put food on the table.

Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in Immokalee, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Improve Wages and Working Conditions for Farmworkers

July 20, 2012

Farmworkers are among the lowest paid workers in America. In Immokalee, where most of the country’s winter tomatoes are grown, this backbreaking work is done mostly by immigrants with few rights.