Category Archives: Food Sovereignty

Free Trade is NOT Free – Why We All Need to Oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Posted on March 19, 2012 by admin

By: John Kinsman, president, Family Farm Defenders Published on Monday, March 12, 2012 by www.commondreams.org Reposted by the CapTimes on March 17, 2012  www.madison.com There are always winners and losers in free trade.  The winners are the 1% – the … Continue reading →

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Family Farm Defenders Declares its Solidarity with International Longshore Workers – Denying Workers The Right to Organize is a Gross Violation of Food Sovereignty

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

For Immediate Release Jan. 22, 2012 Contact:  John E. Peck, executive director  #608-260-0900 Family Farm Defenders, a national organization based in Madison, WI expresses its solidarity with International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) Local 21, and strongly condemns all attempts to … Continue reading →

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Want More Local Fresh Food? Then Stop Criminalizing Family Farmers!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

By:  John Kinsman, President of Family Farm Defenders Published by Common Dreams 1/10/12 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/10-0 On Wed. Jan. 11th dairy farmer, Vernon Herschberger must appear before a county judge in Baraboo, WI – his crime, providing unpasteurized dairy products from his … Continue reading →

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Rally for Raw Milk to Defend Local Food!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

For Immediate Release                                                                       Jan. 10, 2012 Contact:   John E. Peck, executive director, Family Farm Defenders  #608-260-0900 John Kinsman, president, Family Farm Defenders  #608-986-3815 Wed. Jan. 11th 12:00 Noon   Sauk County Courthouse Steps (515 Oak St. in Baraboo) Local fresh food … Continue reading →

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Occupy the Food System!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by admin

By:  Jim Goodman, organic dairy and beef farmer in Wonewoc, WI and board member of Family Farm Defenders. Published 12/14/11 by www.otherwords.org  and 1/4/12 by the Capital Times (Madison, WI) Farmers have been through this before — our lives and … Continue reading →

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