Farm Assist co-founder John Mellencamp will be a part of farmers, ranchers and farmworkers from throughout the U.S. on Tuesday (March 7) once they descent on Washington, D.C. for the Rally for Resilience: Farmers for Local weather Motion. In accordance with a launch from Farm Assist, the march is meant to ship a sign to Congress to make local weather change a coverage precedence as lawmakers start work on the 2023 Farm Invoice.
“As a Farm Assist board member, I’ve been to Washington just a few occasions to ask for farmer voices to be heard. I hope on March 7, members of Congress hear farmers and ranchers loud and clear,” stated Mellencamp in a press release. “If we wish a greater world, it begins with us. Farmers know this. They’ve the instruments and know-how to raised our local weather future, however they will’t do it alone. Policymakers — and all of us — have to help the options they will ship.”
Indiana-bred Mellencamp is slated to talk and carry out on the rally on Freedom Plaza, the place farmers will share their private tales about how local weather change has affected their crops and communities, in addition to supply perception into how sustainable agricultural practices reminiscent of natural manufacturing and rotational grazing may also help mitigate the results of the local weather disaster. The discharge additionally famous that audio system will encourage Congress to incorporate help for Black, Indigenous and folks of colour producers within the upcoming Farm Invoice.
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Mellencamp revealed his plans to attend the occasion in September earlier than final 12 months’s annual Farm Assist profit. “[Willie Nelson] and I made the hassle” to testify earlier than a Congressional subcommittee within the Eighties on behalf of household farmers. And he left satisfied that “the federal government … doesn’t care about you, doesn’t care about something however greed,” Mellencamp stated of his and fellow Farm Assist co-founder Nelson’s longstanding efforts to get officers in Washington to concentrate to the precarious plight of the nation’s farmers.
“So it’s going to take good individuals such as you,” Mellencamp informed the viewers of farmers and activists on the pre-concert occasion. “I’m going to come back to Washington, D.C., as a result of politics right this moment in america has gotten to date out of hand. We’ll get a college bus and we’ll all go down collectively.”
