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- Saturday, Jan 16, 2010
Blog Post At times Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is confusing and false about the farm bill’s Commodity Title. Here is an online example Pollan's views and writing style, which illustrates these points. The article is sometimes cite... -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Blog Post We in the family farm movement are very thankful for the rise of the food movement as a major player in the farm bill. We have some serious issues to work out, some conflicts to overcome, but we can, we must, we will. -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Blog Post There are a number of major myths floating around related to the farm bill, all part of a simple, clear, false paradigm. The false paradigm was widely circulated during work on the 2007-8 farm bill. Blog Post The U.S. family farm movement, which has led the controversial direct fight against corporate power and for a just share of the wealth of agriculture for farmers and peasants world wide has long been short on funding from foundations and major don... Blog Post The late Al Krebs monumental book, The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness remains a giant in the field of food policy, albeit a hidden giant, full of information that remains missing in the food movement of our day. -
- Friday, Oct 30, 2009
ZNet Article African American farmers in the U.S. support fair trade, "living wage" farm prices for farmers everywhere, not the "scapegoat" of subsidies. Needed policies include price floors and supply management. -
- Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
Blog Post This is a Spanish translation of the text of my interview on You Tube. -
- Saturday, Oct 17, 2009
Blog Post The Commodity Title is the biggest title in the Farm Bill in terms of global economic impact. The U.S. farm bill has had a huge impact on the global farm crisis and global food crisis, as I expain here. -
- Thursday, Oct 15, 2009
Blog Post Corn is controversial! I was recently asked to give a corn farmers view of the world food crisis at a food conference. I gave them a lot to think about, a lot of slides and graphs, which I may get posted here (also in Spanish?) in the coming wee... Blog Post In spite of vehement criticisms about each other, Foodies, as I use the word here, and what I call "Farmies" were on board together in support of key US Farm Bill (Commodity Title) policies in recent years, and more importantly, in the crucial po... -
- Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
Blog Post 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009
Blog Post 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. Blog Post 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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009
Blog Post 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. -
- Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009
Blog Post 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 ... Blog Post 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 ... -
- Saturday, Jan 31, 2009
Blog Post 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... Blog Post 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... -
- Friday, Jan 02, 2009
Blog Post 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 ... -
- Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008
Blog Post 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. -
- Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008
Blog Post 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. -
- Friday, Oct 10, 2008
Blog Post Corn and soybean prices are crashing, returning the U.S. toward dumping, exporting at below cost. -
- Thursday, Oct 02, 2008
Blog Post 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. -
- Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008
Blog Post 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... -
- Friday, Sep 12, 2008
Blog Post 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. -
- Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Blog Post We must focus pragmatically on how we can win. Here's my checklist for rating methods of activism, to help focus our efforts. -
- Thursday, Jul 31, 2008
Blog Post Progressive groups usually misunderstood the commodity Title of the U.S. farm bill 2007-2008. A few key links can be enlightening. -
- Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008
Blog Post There are a number of myths about the impact of U.S. farm policy on foreign farmers and the food crisis. -
- Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007
Lyric The Cruel War is the tune for these lyrics for churches on the farm bill. The verses dispel common myths about the farm bill. - All Most Recent Content
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