Youth Testimonials at California Farm Bill Listening Session
The following testimony was one of many from youth present at the Farm Bill Listening Session hosted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture at the Fresno County Farm Bureau.My name is...
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Update on Courtney Oats and Her Pending Court Case (DONATE TODAY)
You might have already heard that one of our Food & Freedom Riders & Real Food Fellows, Courtney Oats of Eupora, Mississippi, faced an arrest that almost prevented her from joining us on the...
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The Food and Freedom Rides - These are our stories.
By Adrien Salazar The Food and Freedom Riders support the United Farm Workers. Photo by Hai Vo. A month ago I wouldn’t have considered the work that I was doing any way historic. I had a limited...
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Day 1. Touchdown in St. Louis. I am rushed with a feeling of joy and comfort as I see my comrades pulling up in the van. It’s great to reconnect with this group of people. Although we are from...
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Day 2. The Robert J. Dole Institute for Politics I’m not sure what I think about this. I think that it is very cool that we are able to come to such a mainstream building at a big...
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Day 3. Ioway Reservation At lunch, we meet with some of the Ioway elders and youth. One of the elders only speaks to his grandson in their native tongue. He is conveying their language and culture to...
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Day 4. We now find ourselves in Iowa. We have driven through millions of acres of corn and soy beans. The rolling hills all begin to look the same. We meet up with a group known as the Immigrant...
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Day 5. The final day of my trip, we go to meet the congressmen (or their representatives) in Des Moines. I am actually very taken by the fact that they would meet with us. They talk about very good...
View ArticleUpdate and Thanks: Food & Freedom Rider Courtney Oats
Thank you for following and contributing to Courtney Oats, her family, and her community of social change agents in Eupora, Mississippi. A community of 35 people across the country helped raise $1140...
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Live Real for Life!
2012’s been quite a year! Perhaps most notably, this is the first year since the founding of the U.S. that 'babies of color' outnumbered White babies. But it’s no joke that half of those babies will...
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