From: mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 19:44:03 EST
Hello PWR,
as Alisha mentioned, we'll be getting together briefly
on Monday to get things organized for the semester.
The Spring Activities Fair will be held this coming
thursday at 4:30pm in Rangos Ballroom, and we will be there.
I'd also like to encourage people to attend CMU's
MLK Day events -- though CMU has always half-heartedly
celebrated the holiday, the keynote speaker is often
very very good. Also, this is an excellent time to
bring up the issues of racial and economic injustice
at CMU that PWR is challenging and how it relates to
the MLK legacy.
Also, there is a cool event at Pitt Monday night
Sponsored by the Black Radical Congress, info below.
Matt
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This is the thing that the Black Radical Congress talked to us about last
semester. Hope to see you there.
Gary Grant of BFAA - Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association
in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr Day
Monday, Jan. 20th
David Lawrence 105
6:30 PM
The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is a grassroots,
volunteer organization created in 1997 in direct response to the staggering
decline in African American farmers and landowners. As of February 1998
there are BFAA chapters in 21 states across the country. Mr. Grant will
talk about the problems of land loss and racist lending policies that black
farmers face and what we can do to help.
In 1920. 1 in every 7 farmers was Black.
In 1982, 1 in every 67 farmers was Black.
In 1910, black farmers owned 15.6 million acres of farm land nationally.
In 1982 Black farmers owned 3.1 million acres of farm land nationally.
Between 1920 and 1992 the number of black farmers in the U.S. declined from
925,710 to 18.816 or by 98 percent.
In 1984 and 1985, the USDA lent $1.3 billion to farmers nationwide to buy
land. Of the almost 16,000 farmers who received those funds, only 209 were
Black.
Almost half of all black-operated farms are smaller than 50 acres.
In the late 1980's, there were less than 200 African-American farmers in
the United States under the age of 25.
here's the poster:
http://www.zi-activism.net/downloads/test/bfaa_v3.pdf
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