| Check out this article by John Nichols in The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/doc/2...
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Iowa's leading farm organization, and urban organization, has been recognized as Most Valuable Grassroots Advocacy Group. Iowa CCI is a member of the National Family Farm Coalition. It has done a great job of bringing inner city urban folks together with farmers. I've heard farmers say things like, the next time you're fighting a drug pusher in your neighborhood, (an issue they discussed,) I'll come and help!
Iowa CCI has also taken this into Chicago's National People's Action (NPA), where large actions urban/rural actions in DC, (and recently in Chicago) have brought these two groups together to go after USDA (ie. Sec. Veneman) as well as urban and combo problem leaders (ie. Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich)
Also, historical family farm icon, Mark Ritchie, founder of IATP, won (for his newer role as Minnesota Secretary of State,) Most Valuable State Official. |
