{"id":1641,"date":"2019-04-08T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2019-04-15T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:07:22","slug":"got-anti-trust-protest-outside-the-cme-on-thurs-april-18th-against-food-monopoly-and-for-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Got Anti-Trust? Protest outside the CME on Thurs. April 18th against Food Monopoly and for Food Sovereignty!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join family farmers, food justice activists, and other allies to mark La Via Campesina’s \"\"<\/a>International Day of Peasant Struggle with a protest to demand anti-trust action against the food giants outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)!<\/p>\n

11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Rally & Leaflet outside the CME (141 W Jackson Blvd.)<\/p>\n

Followed from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm by a march to the IL State Attorney General\u2019s Office (100 W Randolph St) to deliver a letter in defense of family farmers and to call for national anti-trust enforcement!<\/p>\n

Then from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm join us for a community food sovereignty forum at the Steans Center of DePaul University – Lincoln Park Campus (2233 N. Kenmore)<\/p>\n

In solidarity with this speak-out, people across the U.S. are being urged to contact their own state attorney general’s office in support of stronger anti-trust enforcement against the agribusiness giants that now dominate our country’s food system to the detriment of farmers and consumers alike.\u00a0 Even if the federal Department of Justice (DoJ) is currently unwilling to enforce the law, there is still power granted to state elected officials to take action in the public interest.\u00a0 Just such grassroots political pressure back in the mid 1990s helped shut down the corrupt Green Bay Cheese Exchange in WI.\u00a0 Unfortunately, speculators just consolidated their activities at the CME, which has now become the world’s largest commodity market – with even less government oversight.<\/div>\n
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We especially encourage anti-trust supporters in some key states to call their attorney general’s office on Thurs. April 18th (all of these offices will have received our demand letter on this issue by then):<\/div>\n
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California:\u00a0 Xavier Becerra\u00a0 #(916) 445-9555\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Florida:\u00a0 Ashley Moody\u00a0 #(850) 414-3300<\/div>\n
Illinois:\u00a0 Kwame Raoul\u00a0 #(312) 814-3000<\/div>\n
Indiana:\u00a0 Curtis T. Hill Jr.\u00a0 #(317) 232-6201<\/div>\n
Michigan:\u00a0 Dana Nessel\u00a0 #(517) 373-1110<\/div>\n
Minnesota:\u00a0 Keith Ellison\u00a0 #(651) 296-3353<\/div>\n
New York:\u00a0 Letitia A. James\u00a0 #(518) 474-7330<\/div>\n
Ohio:\u00a0 Dave Yost\u00a0 #(614) 466-4320<\/div>\n
Pennsylvania:\u00a0 Josh Shapiro\u00a0 #717-787-3391<\/div>\n
Texas:\u00a0 Ken Paxton\u00a0 #(512) 463-2100<\/div>\n
Vermont:\u00a0 TJ Donovan\u00a0 #(802) 828-3173<\/div>\n
Washington:\u00a0 Bob Ferguson #(360) 753-6200<\/div>\n
Wisconsin:\u00a0 Josh Kaul\u00a0 #(608) 266-1221<\/div>\n
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If your attorney general is not listed above, you can easily find their contact info via this website:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.naag.org\/naag\/attorneys-general\/whos-my-ag\/<\/a><\/div>\n

You can also spread the word by sharing the Facebook event:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/355992121701564\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If your organization would like to sign onto the anti-trust letter being delivered to State Attorney Generals across the country on Thurs. April 18th, please let FFD know!\u00a0 You can read the full letter here: \u00a0 Anti-Trust Letter to Attorney General 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

And for more on what is so wrong with monopoly power over our food\/farm system, here is the flyer we will be distributing outside the CME to share:\u00a0\u00a0 CMEFactsheet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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