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[Rural Activism 🇺🇸 @RuralActivism]

What’s more patriotic than fighting to make your country a better place?

[Living On Earth @livingonearth]

"All that oppression hurt us in the long run because it divorced us from the land, it divorced us from nature and through food we can reconnect with that and begin to repair that link."

@KosherSoul on the healing power of food: https://t.co/tWCutoNuIM

#LOEJuneteenthSpecial

[RNS @RNS]

"The American church needs to reckon with its history of complicity in the treatment of Indigenous peoples — and the ongoing colonization Indigenous peoples continue to face today," writes Kaitlin Curtice.
https://t.co/q0VDZnND48

[Chris Clayton @ChrisClaytonDTN]

Judge Halts USDA Debt Relief
(updated with comment from USDA)
Litigation Ramps Up Against USDA Loan Debt Relief for Minority Farmers https://t.co/T0NWXi1WlV

[Senator John Hickenlooper @SenatorHick]

The best way for the Senate to celebrate #PrideMonth is by passing the Equality Act!

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

From Oscar Wilde’s visit to the island in 1882, to the development of Cherry Grove as “America's First Gay and Lesbian Town,” @FireIslandNPS has long been a home to LGBTQ+ visitors and residents.

Learn more about the LGBTQ+ heritage sites we protect: https://t.co/qHGStZpnah

[Civil Eats @CivilEats]

"I did not become a farmer because I wanted to be wealthy, or because I had ambitions for fame. I became a farmer because I felt a deep calling toward home—a calling to give my most radical self to a single place.” https://t.co/Zn6UWNzjdx

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

FYI:
Rural doesn’t mean white.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Contrary to common misconceptions, #nonviolent #protest is not passive or weak.

#Nonviolence does not cooperate with evil. It puts a demand on systems and on consciences.

It establishes goals and pursues them with true peace, which includes justice, as the outcome.

[RuralOrganizing.org @RuralOrganizing]

New from @brettwcopeland: Will veterans and their family farms disappear from rural America?
https://t.co/k7HPBL9Dvl

[Rural Activism 🇺🇸 @RuralActivism]

"'You can throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled brussels sprouts and wave your American flag,' Kudlow continued, seemingly unclear about the fact that beer already comes from plants."

[Yahoo News @YahooNews]

Conservative politicians, pundits and news outlets spent days proudly stating their opposition to a provision of President Biden’s climate plan that doesn’t exist https://t.co/lrtwYraOqU

[Rural Activism 🇺🇸 @RuralActivism]

"It is perhaps significant that the Biden Administration appears to be making a clear effort to reach out to and assist rural places. Democratic Presidential candidates since the 1980s have seen their share of the rural and small-town electorate fall off very sharply."

[The Daily Yonder @dailyyonder]

The newly released “fact sheet” on rural investments within the American Jobs Plan sheds some light on Biden Administration’s economic strategy for rural America.
https://t.co/tBo5WPwute