The Monsanto Hearings are a project by Compass (aka the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor), a loose network of artists, activists, and intellectuals of which I am a part. With many others, I worked on the Iowa City Hearings in April 2012, the second of a growing series of hearings intended to raise awareness of the local impacts of the agribusiness giant while asking broader questions about the capacity of existing law to promote social and environmental justice.