In this recording of Farm Aid’s monthly Breaking Bread series, we’re sharing a conversation recorded in March 2026 with Francesca Polletta. She’s Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and studies politics, protest, and culture, asking how and when politically disadvantaged groups have mobilized meanings to make change.
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The Highlander Center defines “popular education” as an opportunity to learn from each other’s shared lived experiences to build collective knowledge. Breaking Bread: Lunch and Listen will feature stories that uplifts the shared history of food and farming; organizing and resistance that’s got us to where we are now. We pair that history with work that folks are doing presently, that will inform the future we want for each other as it relates to farming and agriculture, food, culture and rural communities. This storytelling and making our narratives public is a key and critical part of community organizing. Please join us!
