TS Radio Network: The USDA Hour 3/25

These shows are brought to you in coordination with Marcel Reid and the Whistleblower Summit, July 29-31 2021, via online video this year.

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Join Marti Oakley and Lawrence Lucas and other advocates and activists for Black and Minority Farmers,, and, for USDA employees who were discrimated against while working for USDA. 

Tonight we will be discussing:

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced his Justice for Black Farmers Act to address discrimination and injustices to Black farmers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act that would provide $5 billion to farmers of color. Warnock said he hopes to get his bill included in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package moving through Congress. And it was!

Booker and Warnock, new members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, are co-sponsors of each other's bills.

We will have other activists and farmers call in to add to the conversation.  This has been an ongoing issue as Black and Minority farmers were not compensated under the The Pigford settlement, or who got so little from it that it did not make up for the damage they had suffered due to the discrimination within the USDA department.