ms. anderson. [applause] molly: thank you and good afternoon to all of you. it is a real honor to co-present with frankie. i see her as one of the pioneers of food justice. she brought our attention a long time ago to ways that policies and eating patterns in this country are affecting the prospects of justice for people in poor countries and what we can learn from people in other countries. i'm delighted to be here. i want to start with a few observations about why food justice seems to be rising to right now, why it is on so many people's minds. i think first is the growing awareness of racism and racial inequity in this country. ferguson was certainly a flash point for that. with ferguson came the realization, for many of us, that black youths were being massacred by state forces with virtual impunity. this has been going on for a long time, continuing an ugly legacy of lynching in this country. i think food justice is also benefiting from the attention to global inequity in access to resources. at this point, 80 people have the same wealth as the bottom 3