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Wilson: Primer: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
Blog Post, May, 11 2012
Brad Wilson
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The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food p...
Wilson: Primer: Revenue Insurance in the 2012 Farm Bill
Blog Post, May, 11 2012
Brad Wilson
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Revenue Insurance was included in the 2008 Farm Bill in a major way, in the ACRE Program and also in SURE. Now, as the 2012 Farm Bill is being debated and introduced into Congress, Revenue Insurance represents the main direction of further change...
Wilson: Fact Sheet: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
Blog Post, May, 11 2012
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food p...
Wilson: Video: YouTube Vs Our Channels and Our Ideas
Blog Post, March, 08 2012
Brad Wilson
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This video is about how my videos looked, FROM MY CHANNEL, prior to the change on March 7, when you ONLY saw, on my channel, the videos that I specifically choose, when you clicked on the icons. From my playlists, you ONLY saw other videos in the...
Wilson: Farm Bill Slides: A Graphic Illustration of Farm Bill History
Blog Post, February, 23 2012
Brad Wilson
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The implications of the US Farm Bill for farm and food justice (or Food Sovereignty) are almost always misrepresented by USDA, academics, mainstream media, progressives and conservatives. These charts provide a corrective, a picture to show major...
Wilson: Corn Farmers Have Long Subsidized You, Not the Other Way Around
Blog Post, February, 23 2012
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
Corn farmers have received billions of dollars in subsidies as partial compensations for the lowering of farm prices in farm bills. Farm commodity prices do not self-correct to balance supply and demand, so price floors were used to prevent farm ...
Wilson: Most EWG Subsidy "Recipients" Are Too Tiny to Be "Farmers"
Blog Post, February, 21 2012
Brad Wilson
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Only a fraction of Farm Subsidy recipients are close to being full-time family-sized farmers, or even half of that size. Data on federal farm program Recipients is available at the Farm Subsidy Database compiled by the Environmental Working Group...
Wilson: Forgetting Farm Justice: Revisionist Food Movement History and Strategy
Blog Post, January, 19 2012
Brad Wilson
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The article, “Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement,” by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Yi Wang, demonstrates some deep thought about the food movement and related movements. It has merit, but leaves out mo...
Wilson: Another Well Intended Farm Bill Failure
Blog Post, December, 09 2011
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
Here's another detailed explanation of how a well meaning group fails to understand the farm bill Commodity Title. This time it's a "Liveable Future Blog" by a doctoral student at the Center for a Liveable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School...
Wilson: Pathos in the Processes of Social Change: Faith, Art and Organizing
Blog Post, November, 13 2011
Brad Wilson
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This is a general introduction to my method of "prophetic" pathos as a process for social change. It's part of a series of "debriefing" blogs following the recent conference of the Community Food Security Coalition, and the US Food Sovereignty Al...
Wilson: The Case Against CSPI's Food Day's Farm Bill Analysisi
Blog Post, October, 13 2011
Brad Wilson
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While I strongly support the values of the Center for Science in the Public Interest's "Food Day," (October 24, 2011,) I find fault with the way they implement those values. I find that they misunderstand farm and food justice issues in the farm ...
Wilson: Farm Subsidies: Rebuttal to US PIRG Video: “Stop Subsidizing Obesity”
Blog Post, September, 21 2011
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
Here's another of my critiques of farm subsidy myths. This one is US PIRG, which gives themselves a black eye.
Wilson: Farm Aid 85: Neil Young Predicts 21st Century Food Crisis
Blog Post, August, 12 2011
Brad Wilson
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Farm Aid Founders Willie Nelson and Neil Young have taken strong stands on farm and food justice issues, especially economic justice. We see this in Neil's 1985 full page letter to President Reagan, in an article on rural wealth creation in which...
Wilson: Parenti’s Bread Loaf Crunched
Blog Post, July, 30 2011
Brad Wilson
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Christian Parenti's recent article, "Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread," addresses an important crisis: food poverty. Unfortunately, his thesis leaves out the part where low farm prices, not high, were the main long term cause of the problem. ...
Wilson: False on the Food Poverty Crisis: 25 Online Examples
Blog Post, April, 18 2011
Brad Wilson
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Online progressive and other articles and blogs typically give false analysis of the food poverty crisis. They suggest that it's only caused by a few recent years of higher prices, and not by the decades of low prices, for example. This then lea...
Wilson: WTO Africa Group with NFFC, Not EWG
Blog Post, April, 01 2011
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
The Africa Group at WTO has expressed concerns about farm prices along the lines of the Food from Family Farms Act of the National Family Farm Coalition (US). In contrast, groups like ActionAid and the Environmental Working Group misunderstand th...
Wilson: Balance Budget, Win Across the Board with NFFC Farm Bill
Blog Post, March, 05 2011
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
The family farm justice movement offers a strategy to get more benefits from the farm bill AND spend less on it. The secret is in the market management tools developed for the New Deal farm programs. No Commodity Subsidies are needed, but with ...
Wilson: UK's OneWorld Wrong on Farm Subsidies
Blog Post, December, 03 2010
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
This is a 2008 rebuttal to the United Kingdom's "OneWorld Guide" on "Trade and Poverty." Today the guide has changed, but the errors are the same. They continue to take a neoliberal position, offering as farm policy solutions mere subsidy reforms,...
Wilson: Farm Subsidies: Rebutting Europe’s KickAAS
Blog Post, December, 03 2010
Brad Wilson
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Frustrated Europeans want to kick butt against the incredible absurdities of European and US farm policy. Believe me, I can relate! Unfortunately, like most similar groups in the US, they miss the mark. I provide some corrections, to try to brin...
Wilson: Farm Bill Platform Planks
Blog Post, November, 19 2010
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
Here is a comprehensive set of reasons for effective reform of the Commodity Title of the U.S. farm bill. They're worded as one giant platform plank (with a lot of "whereases"). The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate (and again footnote) the...
