Talk Nation Radio: Salt Rebellion in U.S. Colonies and Sailing Food from Maine to Boston

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Why sail food from Maine to Boston, and what do salt and the British colonies in North America have in common with Gandhi’s India?

Rivera Sun is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars, the cohost of Occupy Radio, and the cofounder of the Love-In-Action Network. She tours nationally speaking and educating in nonviolent civil resistance. Her essays on social justice movements appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. See http://riverasun.com

Marada Cook is a food entrepreneur who can be found at Crown O’Maine Organic Cooperative, Northern Girl, and Fiddler’s Green Farm.

Read Rivera Sun’s article “Maine Sail Freight Revives: A Salty History of Revolution, Independence.”

Find the Maine Sail Freight at http://thegreenhorns.net

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.

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