Senate Farm Bill Feeds Big Business Starves Families
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By Bob Wing*
Chokwe Lumumba--a founder and leader of the Republic of New Afrika, the New Afrikan People’s Organization and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, defense attorney for Tupac Shakur and others, and a first term city councilman--is the new Mayor of Jackson, Miss.
His June 4 victory is a stirring tribute to the courageous Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers who fifty years ago on June 12, 1963 was gunned down at his Jackson home.
As the mark up of the 2012 Farm Bill is in its final stages this week (you read that right—the bill was supposed to be passed in 2012, and we’re nearing mid-year 2013!) poor people are in jeopardy of the cuts being made to the bill, and yet, there are other legal decisions and policies moving forward that mean big wins for Big Ag.
Activist and scholar Vijay Prashad discusses accountability across the production chain in the Savar, Bangladesh factory collapse last week that left more than 800 people dead.
As a follow up to the April 5th edition of The App on private v. public debt and austerity measures, there is even more evidence showing the growing negative impact of austerity measures in Europe and North America.
Farmers of Color Not The Problem: It’s Institutional Racism
More than Mentally Ill: The Misplaced Conversation on Gun Violence
“The common ground rests on a simple proposition, and that is that criminals and the dangerously mentally ill shouldn’t have guns. I don’t know anyone who disagrees with that premise.”
-Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA)
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