Frances Moore Lappe

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Frances Moore Lappe is a well known socialist, and food activist.

Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First

The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, was founded by Frances Moore Lappe (Democratic Socialists of America, Institute for Policy Studies) and Joseph Collins (Institute for Policy Studies), authors of the book "Food First".^[1]

DSA vice chair

In 1984 Democratic Socialists of America vice chairs were Harry Britt, Ron Dellums, Dorothy Healey, Irving Howe, Frances Moore Lappe, Manning Marable, Hilda Mason, Marjorie Phyfe, Christine Riddiough, Rosemary Ruether, Edwin Vargas Jr, William Winpisinger^[2].

DSA Feminist Commission

In 1985, Ex Officio members: Barbara Ehrenreich, Dorothy Healey, Frances Moore Lappe, Hilda Mason, Marjorie Phyfe, Christine Riddiough, Rosemary Ruether, Maxine Phillips and Esmeralda Castillo were listed on the National Officers and Staff of the Feminist Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America.^[3]

In 1986 she was listed as a member of the Commission.^[4]

911 "Truther"

Frances Moore Lappe author, Diet for a Small Planet; founder, Small Planet Institute,was one of 100 "prominent Americans" who signed an October 26 2004 statement^[5]circulated by 911Truth.org calling on the U.S. Government to investigate 9/11 as a possible "inside job".

...we have assembled 100 notable Americans and 40 family members of those who died to sign this 9/11 Statement, which calls for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.

Rosenberg Fund for Children

In 2003 Frances Moore Lappe was on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children^[6].

IPS connection

In September 14-16, 2007 the International forum on Globalization and the Institute for Policy Studies presented a "teach in" at the The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium.

Co-sponsors were The Nation Institute, Global Project on Economic Transitions, Progressive Student Union at GWU, Sierra Club, Greenpeace.

Confronting the Global Triple Crisis-Climate Change * Peak Oil * Global Resource Resource Depletion and Extinction.

Speakers at the Ingredients of systemic change workshop were;

• Martin Khor (Malaysia), director, Third World Network

• Wes Jackson, president, the Land Institute; author, New Roots for Agriculture

• Frances Moore Lappe, author, Diet for a Small Planet and Hope’s Edge

• Jack Santa Barbara (Canada), Sustainable Scale Project

• Carl Pope, executive director, Sierra Club

• Susan George (France), chair, Transnational Institute; author, Fate Worse Than Debt

• Smitu Kothari (India), director, Intercultural Resources, India; professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

• Tom Butler, editor, Wild Earth

• Wolfgang Sachs (Germany), research director, Wuppertal Institute; author, Greening the Northand Fair Future^[7]

Boston DSA post election forum

On Nov.24 2008 Boston Democratic Socialists of America organized a post election forum at the [[Democracy Center]45 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, (Harvard Sq.) Speakers:

• Frances Moore Lappe, the author of several books, beginning in 1971 with Diet for a Small Planet. She helped launch the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), and—in 2002—the Small Planet Institute, which promotes global democracy and environmentally sustainable development. U Decide 2008, a recent Institute project, targeted undecided voters with flyers comparing the records and positions of Obama and McCain on specific issues. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and was selected by the Women’s National Book Association as one of the 12 living “women whose words have changed the world".
• Tim Costello, is a longtime labor activist and former truck driver who helped organize the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, a network of 65 unions and community groups in the U.S. and Canada. He is currently on the Advisory Board of the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center, and is Co-Director of Global Labor Strategies (www.globallaborblog.org). Tim Costello is also co-author of "Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up".
• Frank Llewellyn, is the National Director of Democratic Socialists of America, and on the Board of NY Citizen Action.^[8]

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