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Sugar, salt, grapes, maguey, and more: This Fourth of July, let\u2019s recognize the role food plays in igniting movements for justice and change around the world, and throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my many years of organizing community kitchens, I have seen how food\u2014and organizing to feed people in need\u2014can create profound benefits in even the poorest communities, uniting, organizing and instigating change from the bottom up. And through a review of history, I have also repeatedly encountered the ways food sits at the center of revolutionary movements.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we mark the Fourth of July\u2014following our first-ever national recognition of Juneteenth as a \u201csecond Independence Day\u201d\u2014it\u2019s worth recognizing the power of food to ignite movements for justice and change around the world, and throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Abolition Movement in England<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the late 1700s, Thomas Clarkston<\/a> saw the light of abolition while preparing an essay at Cambridge University arguing against the slave trade. With a young person\u2019s zeal, he set out to be part of the abolition movement, distributing thousands of copies on his travels throughout England, and became a founding member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, whose members would actively work to get Parliament to end the slave trade.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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