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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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Joseph Awards After-Party and meetups in between, there was plenty of Black joy and celebration. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. It takes all of us, and each of us, to get this right At its core, Harambee was a celebration of community. “It

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

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And when we, my co-author Bryant Terry and I, were talking about doing this book project together, and we were trying to think about, is there one word out there to describe the food that we talk about in the book, and that we encourage people to support and to buy and to eat, and we celebrate? For instance, "organic".

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

So we went out and celebrated, and then in the subsequent weeks, it became very clear that the developer who wanted to build on the watershed had no intention of abiding by the citizens' rule. They are to varying degrees of important events at different corporations, but CitiGroups is actually quite a celebrated event.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone. Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated. I recently hit three million lifetime miles on American Airlines. Why do I do it?

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