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Last weekend as part of its 45th Annual Meeting, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives honored humanitarian and comedian, Dick Gregory, and Woodrow Keown and Ed Cline, two long time board members of the organization who passed away during the Spring of 2012. All three were honored Thursday night, at a dinner [...]
By Susan Bambo On June 27, 2012 the Alabama State Association of Cooperatives (ASAC) in collaboration with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives /Land Assistance Fund (FSC/LAF) organized and hosted a Plasticulture Demonstration Workshop in Boligee Greene County, Alabama. The Workshop was organized primarily for the Greene/Sumter Farmers’ Market Cooperative; however, the members of the cooperative [...]
Representatives from more than 25 statewide organizations will gather in Montgomery to strengthen a coalition and solidify strategies for addressing laws and practices in Alabama that are designed to deny and deprive individuals and groups of their civil and human rights. The Save Ourselves Summit II is scheduled for Saturday, June 30, 2012 beginning at [...]
EPES, Alabama… The Class Counsel for the Black farmer lawsuit against USDA for discrimination (Pigford II) will be available to complete claimant forms on Saturday, April 14 at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund’s (Federation) Rural Training and Research Center located at 575 Federation Road, Epes, Alabama 35460. Class Counsel will be available to [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher, Greene County Democrat Epes, Alabama; March 23, 2012: “Time is running out for Black farmers who want to make a claim in the Pigford II – Black Farmers Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As of Friday, March 30, there will only be six weeks [...]
Over 5,000 people gathered in front of the Alabama State Capitol on Friday, March 9, 2012, for a rally at the end of the week-long Selma- to – Montgomery March. The march was held to protest voter suppression in Alabama and throughout the nation which threatens to disenfranchise as many as 5 million older, [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher The first six weeks of the 180 day claim period in the Pigford II – Black Farmers Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit have just been completed. May 11, 2012 is the final day for Black farmers to make a claim in this case. The Pigford II claims process is [...]
Farmers listen intently to presentation by Dr. William Puckett, NRCS State Director On May 10, 2011, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund in Epes, Alabama, hosted the first Alabama USDA Eligibility Workshop for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers. About 50 farmers and landowners attended the workshop designed specifically for those who needed assistance, or [...]
Pictured above is Christian Valley Baptist Church in Tishabee. Below is Mt.Pilgrim Baptist Church, located right across the road from Mt. Pilgrim. Both churches were destroyed by the tornado that hit the Southern area of Greene County last Wednesday. Many homes and other structures were destroyed in that area as well as in the Mantua/Snoddy [...]
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund celebrated its 43rd Annual Meeting this past weekend in Birmingham and at the organization’s Rural Training and Research Center at Epes, Alabama. On Saturday, August 21, Shirley Sherrod, a former Federation staff member and recently dismissed Georgia State Director of USDA Rural Development and Ben Jealous, [...]
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