I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” -Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1979) You may not know who she is or what she did but you probably know this famous quote from Fannie Lou Hamer. Now let’s talk about what she did and why she said that. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
This is a huge, huge victory for myself and black farmers, many of whom have died waiting for justice. I have been working on this thing for 26 years. I’ve been hearing ‘no’ for so very long.” John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) On Friday, November 12th the senate unanimously approved funding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Folks, the egg recall my have dropped off the nightly news, but this is a very real, persistent and everyday issue here. Every time you eat, the food industry effects your life and health, even if you’ve opted out the mainstream food system. And it ain’t just eggs. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
My grandfather used to say ‘the land don’t know no color, the land never mistreated anybody. It’s the people here.” ~Dr. John Boyd There are several notable things about the Shirley Sherrod incident worth acknowledging, most involve how much this incident is not about the woman in question. The African American Georgia State Director of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long live native seeds” Down with Monsanto. Down with GMO and hybrid seeds.” Those were the chants of the peasants who protested against genetically modified seed “donator” Monsanto. Their one harvest seeds would spell disaster for the still ailing nation, plunging the farmers into a kind of “green slavery” and destroying the nations ability to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Monsanto On June 4th Haitian farmers will burn genetically modified seeds donated by Monsanto. Find out why in Part 1 of this piece HERE. According to truthout.org [4] hybrid corn seeds have been donated by Monsanto to Haiti that were treated with the fungicide Maxim XO and the calypso tomato seeds were treated […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On June 4th Haitian farmers will burn seeds as an act of protest in response to what one peasant farmer calls “a new earthquake”. Since the devastating 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in mid January the country has been in even more need than the poverty stricken nation usually is. A company named Monsanto will be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
UPDATE: “Congress failed to approve $1.15 billion by a March 31 deadline so now the Obama administration cannot allocate $1.25 billion to settle decades-old discrimination lawsuits with black farmers. The deal, one of the largest civil rights settlements in history, was to compensate black farmers left out of federal farm loan and assistance programs due […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
