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Description:
This paper juxtaposes the distinctly radical logic of many historical grassroots anti-hunger political moments with contemporary, neoliberalized, notions of food justice. First, I will examine the theoretical assumptions that have led to stark tactical differences between these dissimilar kinds of anti-hunger politics. Next, I will examine several divergent historical geographical moments within anti-hunger politics in Milwaukee through the context of the Milwaukee Branch of the Black Panther Party and a contemporary "grassroots" group called Voices Against Hunger. Based on these historical moments, I will suggest that fundamentally different strategies are necessary if the growing numbers of hungry people in Milwaukee, other US cities, and the world more generally, are to be fed. In an effort to show what a re-invigorated model of radical anti-hunger politics might look like, I will end the paper by discussing how two contemporary groups working in Milwaukee, Food Not Bombs and the Industrial Areas Foundation, might signal the re-birth of a sustained and effective radical anti-hunger politics.
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