Episode 168: Frances Moore Lappé - a podcast by Heritage Radio Network

Katy Keiffer is joined by the legendary activist and writer Frances Moore Lappé on an inspiring episode of What Doesnt Kill You. Frances More Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Frances was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Her most recent work is World Hunger:10 Myths which she and co-author Joseph Collins co-wrote (October 2015, Grove/Atlantic). She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Oakland based think tank Food First and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide. - See more at: http://smallplanet.org/about/frances/bio#sthash.VKZsX8pC.dpuf Our whole book is about rethinking power down to its latin root meaning - which is our capacity to act. [07:00] If we dont set the rules that are fair and democratic, then its set by highest return on existing wealth. [16:00] We have to stop complaining and join together in a movement like the movement that I was fortunate enough to experience in the 1960s and 70s. That movement is rising now and its a bipartisan movement. [19:00] --Frances Moore Lappe on What Doesnt Kill You andnbsp;

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