Hi All,

Next Tuesday, February 25th, Slow Food North Shore is having their Winter Soirée at Osteria Leana, and we would love to have you join us! We have designed a great seasonal menu, and Chef Peter Van Der Mije is gifted at turning those ingredients into spectacular dishes that will warm your senses. Many of the dishes can accommodate different dietary needs, so everyone can join us at the convivial table. Macari Vineyards is providing us with their biodynamic wines and Oyster Bay Brewery is providing us with their local beer, so we have everyone covered! To purchase tickets, click here.

My guests this week on the Progressive Radio Network are Mitchel Cohen and Robin Falk Esser, editor and contributor to the book, The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides.

Mitchel Cohen is a long time Green Activist who led the No Spray Coalition in New York City, which successfully sued the City government over its indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides. In 1997, he organized the campaign to rid NYC public schools of milk from cows injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, and in 2001, he ran for Mayor of NYC as one of five Green Party candidates. He was editor of the national newspaper Green Politix, and of the NY State Green Party newspaper. Mitchel edited Red Balloon, the journal of the Red Balloon Collective that he co-founded at SUNY Stony Brook, and chaired WBAI radio’s Local Board.

Robin Falk Esser, Ph.D. earned her Ph.D. in Physiology & Biophysics at SUNY Stony Brook Health Sciences Center Medical School and has published papers in the journals: Science, Nature, Journal of Physiology, Journal of General Physiology, and the Biophysical Journal. She worked as a New York City high school science teacher for 30 years, teaching Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science, AP Bio, and Chemistry, among other courses. She was a recipient of the Siemens AP Science Award for excellence in teaching.

We all know that chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives, where we live, where we work, where our children go to school, on our farms, in our food, in our oceans and even in the air we breathe. The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics behind the mass use of pesticides and the grassroots movements that are rising up to push back against the onslaught of corporate influence and the governments that put corporate profit over the health and well being of the people they were elected to protect. The scientists and activists that contributed to the book, not only explore the dangers of glyphosate – better known as “Roundup” – but the campaign that finally got glyphosate declared as a probable cancer-causing agent. Please join us on Thursday, to hear the stories of activists taking radical approaches to help defend life on this planet, and protect the world for our children, and future generations.

My radio show, iEat Green with Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network is live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in to the live show, just navigate to PRN.fm and listen in!

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Bhavani 

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