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Tonight's Guest: Herschelle Milford After 10 years of fighting forced removals during Apartheid, Surplus People Project (S.P.P.) has worked for 23 years to transform the rural economy through land, water and agricultural reform. Herschelle Milford is a global south movement leader working toward food sovereignty and climate justice. The interview explores different ways people can lack food sovereignty by comparing South African black farmers, who cannot own land, and US black farmers who have lost land or can't afford to farm. Herschelle was in Seattle for the Africa-US Food Sovereignty Strategy Summit (see www.seattleglobaljustice.org/blog/news-events/). She describes the work of the S.P.P. in South Africa's Western and Northern Cape, organizing and doing participatory action research with small-scale farmers, farm dwellers and women.