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ELECTION DAY CAME LAZILY in Santarem, a mid-sized city and trading entrepot at the junction of the Amazon and Tapajos rivers, the halfway point between Amazonia's primary metropolises of Manaus and Belem. The internet was out of service in this sleepy Amazonian town, as were two out of the four major cellphone carriers, and the streets were nearly empty. I encountered a group of men singing songs on the waterfront, reclining under one of the few shaded barracas that gave them respite from the relentless sun. I asked one of the men-who, like many who work in the precarious river trades, walked on crutches and nursed an amputated leg-where people were going to vote. After he told me about a few locations, which all seemed too far for me to walk to in the suffocating heat, I asked him when he was going to go vote. 'Not until the late afternoon-I don't like the long Lines,' he said. 'Not like it's that important anyway; I'm going to vote branco' (leave the ballot blank). Adapted from the source document.

The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers' pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities