Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice
The comments to this article are awesome. There is so much support for reasponsible farming and so much understanding of what we all, the 99% are up against to defend and secure our future.
~cleanelectric
Posted 22 hours ago on Dec. 2, 2011, 6:21 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities. This Sunday, December 4th food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corporate control of the food supply.
Events throughout the day will call and inspire participants to fight against the corporate manipulation of the agriculture system. An industry that is responsible for using chemical toxins tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens.
The event will kick off at 2pm at La Plaza Cultural Community Gardenwith a musical performance followed by remarks from food justice activists and occupiers. They will share their stories and listen to their peers as they highlight the role of urban-rural solidarity in building a sustainable food system as well as challenges of family-scale farmers in a culture of corporate dominance.
At 4pm, musicians will be among those leading the Farmers’ March in a colorful parade from La Plaza to Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza, the site of a Solidarity Circle at 5pm. Stories of struggle, triumph and ruminations about the role OWS might assume in the food justice movement will help form the circle. The circle will close with a Seed Exchange.
Participants are encouraged to express their dissent creatively, donning fruits hats, wearing burlap sacks, carrying brightly colored signs and moving in time to the beat of the drums.
Please join us, farmers, ranchers, farm workers, urban gardeners, foodies and supporters of all kinds in the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.
Speakers will include:
George Na ylor - Iowa farmer and president of the National Family Farm Coalition. Karen Washington - Founder of City Farms Market and board member at NYC based organization Just Food. Jim Gerritsen - Maine based farmer who was named one of 20 world visionaries by Utne Reader in 2011 and is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Monsanto.
Severine von Tscharner - Food advocate and producer of the film “Green Horns”, profiling young farmer entrepreneurs. Jim Goodman - Wisconson Farmer, organizer of the tractorcade to Madison to speak out against Governer Walker’s union legislation. Jalal Sabur - Founding member of the Freedom Food Alliance and advocate working on the alliance of black urban communities with black rural farmers. Mike Callicrate - Colorado cattle rancher, entrepreneur and rural advocate . Andrew Faust - World renowned permaculture expert and educator.
~cleanelectric
Posted 22 hours ago on Dec. 2, 2011, 6:21 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities. This Sunday, December 4th food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corporate control of the food supply.Events throughout the day will call and inspire participants to fight against the corporate manipulation of the agriculture system. An industry that is responsible for using chemical toxins tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens.
The event will kick off at 2pm at La Plaza Cultural Community Gardenwith a musical performance followed by remarks from food justice activists and occupiers. They will share their stories and listen to their peers as they highlight the role of urban-rural solidarity in building a sustainable food system as well as challenges of family-scale farmers in a culture of corporate dominance.
At 4pm, musicians will be among those leading the Farmers’ March in a colorful parade from La Plaza to Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza, the site of a Solidarity Circle at 5pm. Stories of struggle, triumph and ruminations about the role OWS might assume in the food justice movement will help form the circle. The circle will close with a Seed Exchange.
Participants are encouraged to express their dissent creatively, donning fruits hats, wearing burlap sacks, carrying brightly colored signs and moving in time to the beat of the drums.
Please join us, farmers, ranchers, farm workers, urban gardeners, foodies and supporters of all kinds in the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.
Speakers will include:
George Na ylor - Iowa farmer and president of the National Family Farm Coalition. Karen Washington - Founder of City Farms Market and board member at NYC based organization Just Food. Jim Gerritsen - Maine based farmer who was named one of 20 world visionaries by Utne Reader in 2011 and is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Monsanto.
Severine von Tscharner - Food advocate and producer of the film “Green Horns”, profiling young farmer entrepreneurs. Jim Goodman - Wisconson Farmer, organizer of the tractorcade to Madison to speak out against Governer Walker’s union legislation. Jalal Sabur - Founding member of the Freedom Food Alliance and advocate working on the alliance of black urban communities with black rural farmers. Mike Callicrate - Colorado cattle rancher, entrepreneur and rural advocate . Andrew Faust - World renowned permaculture expert and educator.
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struggleforfreedom
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Article 5 of the US constitution can be used to reconstruct congress and the entire federal government from the ground up. There needs to be an Occupy congress NOW! Protestors can put congress on notice that the 99% have the evidence that congress is andhas been unconstitutional. When protest is done in defense of the constitution, law enforcement must carefully consider their efforts to control. This protects protestors and their commit to all of our needs.
Federal law regulating oath of office by government officials is divided into four parts along with an executive order which further defines the law for purposes of enforcement. 5 U.S.C. 3331, provides the text of the actual oath of office congressional members were required to take before assuming office.
5 U.S.C. 3333 required you to sign an affidavit that you took the oath of office required by 5 U.S.C. 3331 and have not nor will violate that oath during your tenure of office as defined by the third part of the law,
5 U.S.C. 7311, which explicitly makes it a federal criminal offense for anyone employed in the United States Government to “advocate the overthrow of our constitutional form of government.”,
18 U.S.C. 1918 provides penalties for violation of oath office described in 5 U.S.C. 7311 which include: removal from office, imprisonment, and a fine.
The definition of “advocate” is further specified in Executive Order 10450 which for purposes of enforcement supplements 5 U.S.C. 7311.
Executive Order 10450 specifies a violation of 5 U.S.C. 7311 for any person taking the oath of office to advocate “the alteration…of the form of the government of the United States by unconstitutional means"
According to Executive Order 10450 (and therefore 5 U.S. 7311) any act taken by government officials who have taken the oath of office prescribed by 5 U.S.C. 3331 which alters the form of government other than by amendment, is a criminal violation of the 5 U.S.C. 7311. Such alteration without amendment is criminal violation of 5 U.S.C. 7311 and 18 U.S.C. 1918.
In 1939 the supreme court violated Executive Order 10450 specifiing a violation of 5 U.S.C. 7311
http://www.foa5c.org/file.php/1/Articles/Coleman.htm
Acts relating to campaign finance are also unconstitutional and comprise “the alteration…of the form of the government of the United States by unconstitutional means"
Gotta go-typing on someone's iPod
http://occupywallst.org/forum/yet-another-miracle-gmo-food-brought-to-you-by-mon/
You cannot blame farmers that the consumer over consumes.
"tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens."
Farmers do not cause any of this.
You can still buy your own raw wheat at $5.00 a bushel and make whatever you want to out of it. If in the process, you figure your time, labor, equipment, utilities and the price of the grain used, to be more than $5.00 per box - you made your own cereal but you paid the price to do it.
We decided to "burn" our food and now we are paying for it in the grocery store - In the meantime, commodities such as corn are at an all time high and the small farmer as well as, the corporate farmer might not be doing as badly as you might think. $8.00 per bushel for field corn has lead to corn being planted in areas this country that were never tilled for corn planting in the past. Now WHO to you say has NO respect for the soil.
This is simply finger pointing at the unknown by the unknown.
What I have a very difficult time with is your insistent attitude that anything even remotely connected to any corporation, is evil, even if the same things benefit both the individual and corporate units. Many of the corporate farms that you hate beyond reason began as family farms and worked their way up - you might find that some of these corporate farms today are still family run operations. And I will not even touch your "blame and shame" game. Visit a family farm today, that is not one of your organic farms" and ask them if they use chemicals or modified seed..
If you think that that corn plant growing in the organic farm field is not modified, you need to do a little research into how that 7foot high plant arrived there from the small grass that it used to be several hundred years ago.
I DID NOT even imply that that I was operated an "organic" farm, merely referring to the fact that most other farms, DO use GMO seeds and chemicals. Please tell us what your farm consists of in relation to the topic being discussed.
Check this link out and see how the senate basically wrote and passed a bill that completely undermines our inalienable rights granted to us by our constitution.
Martial law might be coming sooner than you think.http://rt.com/usa/news/detention-legislation-torture-senate-891/
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- How large was their farm operation??
- Where were they selling their raw milk and other foods?
- If not on the farm itself, where was it being sold.
- What are your local laws regarding pasteurization of milk products sold for human consumption?
- Is this a common practice to sell raw milk in this area.
- How do you arrive at the intimidation claim if it only involves one farm family vs. large factory farms?
Just curious whether you have the facts to back up your claims or if you are just ranting..I can walk out my door today and buy a pig from a local farm, have it butchered and packed for my freezer. This is not my problem. My problem, is someone (government) watching that that pork is processed in the appropriate manner and under the same standards as the pork from the local grocery?? There are portable butcher shops in the country that will butcher right on the farm, but they meet federal standards for sanitation, etc. I have NO problem with that at all.
I can still get pork that is organically grown.
Deadly Pathogen affects plants and animals and it may be linked to Monsanto's Roundup! Dr. Huber discovered it earlier this year and warned Vilsack @USDA. Dr. Huber said this should be treated as an emergency and wanted USDA to hold off approval of another GMO crop, but Vilsack approved it (alfalfa, third largest crop in US). It is extremely rare to have anything affect plants AND animals... but GOV Inc will protect profits over death and disease. MonSatan in USDA and FDA...why we can't get GMO labels. PLEASE read and share details and very disturbing connection between Monsanto, GMOs and the government. 'Deeds of Destruction'http://saynotocorporateamerica.blogspot.com/2011/01/deeds-of-destruction.htmlwatch the 'Future of Food' (note sky at 16 minutes)
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and to tell the truth you got it right,they are corripted and all they want is money. but now what? your not giving any solutions.
please i'm not you'r enemy,but if you want a better world without poverty,crime,suffering,death,misery,hunger,war,and diseases.
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We have to start with a new animal.
One new start would be pulling down the system as just putting new faces in it will not change it. Time will bring opportunity but we either fold and give into them with long term increased fascism and control preventing any further revolt or we stay true to the course of change.
Our vital tool the web, is in danger as bush has already signed the means to close it down.
A second line of communication is needed. Give them no time to rearm.
The farmers are already victimized with the supermarket chains gouging the price to the producer and acting as a cartel to stop competition.
Small business are nothing to the 1% so loyalty or the farmers is well placed with OWS.
I suggest leaving the current system in place and begin to plan a new form of government where "we the people" run the show not money running the show. When the new government is designed, then present the new form of government (all worked out) to "the people" and get a popular vote on accepting the new form of government or not. If it passed then we will have had a bloodless coup and moved to a better form of government without ANY violence. A second line of communication is needed. A farmers revolt you call for, let me stock up first.
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I always have to read and give a slightly biased slant to anything written by a farmer. I have only the greatest respect for my upbringing and by family. Thanks for your honest post.