Liza Grandia
lizagrandia.bsky.social
Liza Grandia
@lizagrandia.bsky.social
Activist anthropologist & ally to Maya food sovereignty, agrarian, and environmental justice movements; cancer survivor and toxic buster; chair of Native American Studies at UC-Davis; author of "Kernels of Resistance" (2024)
Largest protest ever in our sleepy town! Five blocks on both sides of the street and town square full, full!!!
April 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
First review is in! Links below
ecolitbooks.com/2025/03/01/b...

There is much talking of “resistance” as of late. Read this book to learn how to resist the corporations . . . . And read this book to appreciate the miracle that is maize and its many heroic defenders."
March 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
For anyone in a federal office targeted this week by the Doge-rats, may you have the courage of Gandalf.
February 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
February 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you had any doubt, this is a coup in motion. Breitbart news and the billionaire-owned Washington post to replace the New York Times and NPR in the Pentagon.
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Maize defenders lobbying the Guatemalan Congress to pass bill 6086 to defend their ancestral right to save seeds and protect them from corporate patent. To learn more, see my book, "Kernels of Resistance" in comments (available for free download). Photos courtesy of REDSAG
January 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tomorrow is the last day to order my new book, Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power, at 40% off with free shipping (WINTER24 is the code), so $18 direct from University of Washington press
January 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
These are the 3 judges who ruled the Mexico (the world's birthplace of maize and center of its agrodiversity) cannot ban the import of genetically modified corn for human consumption.
December 21, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Goons for the corporatocracy ruled yesterday that Mexico does not have a right to ban the import of genetically-modified corn for human consumption.
December 21, 2024 at 10:21 PM
I'm delighted to announce the "open access" release of my newest book --a David and Goliath story about how Mesoamerican food movements faced down Monsanto, one of the most powerful corporations on the planet. . . and won.
December 16, 2024 at 5:24 PM