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Wilson: $100toZ4 The1SacredWord
Blog Post, October, 14 2009
Brad Wilson
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Here's a symbolic blog for a non symbolic result. You take my "word" and my cause seriously, (briefly,) and I'll make another donation. It's my one word of the farm/food justice movement, not as it has been around the US in recent years, but as ...
Wilson: Farm "Shock Doctrine?"
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Brad Wilson
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One example of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine may be found in the implementation of a 1962 plan to quickly eliminate "excess resources," in U.S. agriculture, one third of U.S. farmers and farm workers.
Wilson: Double the Size of the Food, Farm and Hunger Reform Movement Today
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Brad Wilson
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There's bad news and good news. The bad news is that half of the food, farm, and hunger reform movement has been advocating on the wrong side of the core issue in the U.S. farm bill. The good news is that they're active and share our core values...
Wilson: Effective Organizing to Stop War: An Outlining Based upon Experience in Iowa
Blog Post, February, 18 2009
Brad Wilson
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Many of the actions undertaken to stop war don't really make much sense. Good organizing would be very different from much of what we see. Good organizing is not that hard, it's accessible and doable. We need to refocus on good organizing.
Wilson: On Becoming a Roger Fisher (or a Noam Chomksy): Part II
Blog Post, February, 17 2009
Brad Wilson
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Like Noam Chomsky's political work , Roger Fisher has found a kind of life's work that he has never been able to exhaust, in pragmatic negotiation, mediation and influence (Fisher's original work was in law). In working with his methods over the ...
Wilson: On Becoming a Chomksy
Blog Post, February, 17 2009
Brad Wilson
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Noam Chomsky found key areas that needed more work, and worked hard at filling in the missing pieces. I've worked for a good while and I identify with what he's done. We all should look for ways to find key work that needs to be done and get at ...
Wilson: Running for White House Farmer
Blog Post, January, 31 2009
Brad Wilson
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We greatly need new leadership in the farm and food reform movement. Efforts to establish a White House Farmer provide an opportunity to highlight those leadership needs. I'm campaigning for "White House Farmer" as a way to lead the movement tow...
Wilson: Farm Stimulus Paid for Itself
Blog Post, January, 31 2009
Brad Wilson
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During the era of the New Deal farm programs and the Steagall Amendment of 1941, price floors were used to raise farm prices to "parity" levels, as an economic stimulus. The opportunity to do that again may soon arise, as the current farm bill co...
Wilson: Foodies vs Farmies: A Look at Farm Politics
Blog Post, January, 02 2009
Brad Wilson
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In the macho world of mainstream farm politics, voices toward the left are discounted with relish, recently as "foodies," for example. Here I find a complementary voice (not complimentary,) with which to counter charge that the ag boy network is ...
Wilson: Worksheets for Organizing: Tools for Specifically Planning Effective Action
Blog Post, November, 26 2008
Brad Wilson
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Here are lists of worksheets that can be used for effective organizing. Reading the lists demonstrates specific things to do, to begin organizing and to finish the job, winning victories and moving forward, step by step.
Wilson: Listen, Learn, Leverage, Lead: Our Most Pragmatic Strategy Has Yet to be Seriously Tried
Blog Post, November, 05 2008
Brad Wilson
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Obama and the Democrats will not lead us in a just direction unless we learn and implement pragmatic ways to influence their votes, each in our own congressional district.
Wilson: Farm Prices Crashing Down
Blog Post, October, 10 2008
Brad Wilson
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Corn and soybean prices are crashing, returning the U.S. toward dumping, exporting at below cost.
Wilson: Study: CRA Falsely Blamed for Financial Crisis by Right
Blog Post, October, 02 2008
Brad Wilson
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A recent study found that the Community Reinvestment Act may have helped somewhat in averting the financial crisis, in contrast to the claims of Republicans seeking to dodge responsibility for the failure of deregulation.
Wilson: Farm Market Deregulation: Failed Bailouts
Blog Post, October, 01 2008
Brad Wilson
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New Deal U.S. farm programs regulated markets by setting price floors and ceilings, managing supply and maintaining reserves. As those programs were degraded and destroyed farm bills became bailouts in which farm income declined and selected corp...
Wilson: Chomsky is Wrong, Peters is Right
Blog Post, September, 12 2008
Brad Wilson
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Cynthia Peters 2004 piece, "Talking Back to Chomsky," was right on target. We still have a lot of work to do to become excellent at effectiveness.
Wilson: How to Win: My Organizers Checklist
Blog Post, August, 01 2008
Brad Wilson
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We must focus pragmatically on how we can win. Here's my checklist for rating methods of activism, to help focus our efforts.
Wilson: DeMystifying the U.S. Farm Bill Commodity Title: Key Links
Blog Post, July, 31 2008
Brad Wilson
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Progressive groups usually misunderstood the commodity Title of the U.S. farm bill 2007-2008. A few key links can be enlightening.
Wilson: Farm Bill & Food crisis Myths: Commodity Title Issues
Blog Post, July, 30 2008
Brad Wilson
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There are a number of myths about the impact of U.S. farm policy on foreign farmers and the food crisis.
