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" ... Ask not--what your country can do for you--       ask--what you can do for your country ...". JFK

There are hundreds of organizations representing African, Hispanic and Native American farmers we can give major financial support to ... Some of the main groups                                 are these:

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This USDA racism--over the past century cost the African American farmers--a century ago--nearly 1,000,000 of them--an estimated $326,000,000,000--or $326 Billion--the value of the farmland they owned in 1920. Today--although they worked as hard as--and often harder than anyone else--there are roughly only 20,000 Black Farmers left. Because the situation was/is similar for the Hispanic and Native American farmers--the total cash we owe them all would amount to 1 Trillion dollars--or $1,000,000,000,000. Given a Gross World National Domestic Product (what I call it)--in 2023 of $23 Trillion--the $1 Trillion wouldn't  be chicken feed--but possible.   Dan Glickman--Clinton USDA Sec.

Litigation:  ●  Pigford v Glickman  ●  Garcia v Vilsack/         Love v Vilsack  ●  Keepseagle v Vilsack Between 1997 and 2015 all three of the African, Hispanic and Native American farmers brought the US Department of Agriculture to court for extreme racism over the course of 1980 thru 1997. The three groups ended up receiving a total of less than $5 Billion.     Legislation: HR 40 / S 40  ● Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act HR 1393 / S 4929  ● Justice for Black Farmers Act Write to your Congressman and Senators.

Can we each Pay Some Dues ? National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd / Senator                               Charles Schumer D-NY                              Marilyn Keepseagle Rudy Arredondo--President--CEO--Executive Director--Latino Farmers and Ranchers International

Federation of Southern Cooperatives 2769 Church Street, East Point, GA 30344 https://www.federation.coop/ 404 / 765-0991    National Black Farmers Association 68 Wind Rd., Baskerville, Virginia 23915 https://www.blackfarmers.org/ johnwesleyboydjr@gmail.com 434/ 210-2286   Latino Farmers and Ranchers International 731 Central Avenue East Edgewater, Maryland 21037 https://lfrint.org/ Latino Farmers and Ranchers International        202/ 367-9081 2101 L St., NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20037   National Congress of American Indians Embassy of Tribal Nations 1516 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 https://www.ncai.org/tribal-directory/tribal-organizations 202 / 466-7767 www.indianlandworkinggroup.org   The Indian Land Tenure Foundation 151 County Road B2 East Little Canada, MN 55117-1523 651 / 766-8999 https://iltf.org/ https://iltf.org/about-us/partners/

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