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For Indian farmers, a Long March ends in victory

March 13, 2018 By Scott Hiley

Farmers in the Indian state of Maharashtra are heading home after marching over 100 miles to press their demands on the state government in Mumbai.

Nashville Indigenous community protests Trump’s Farm Bureau convention address

January 16, 2018 By Albert Bender

A press release from the American Indian Coalition, said, “This is Indian land—the land of the Cherokee, the Muscogee Creek, the Choctaw, and others... Trump and his supporters do not belong.”

The ‘Grand Old Woman of U.S. Communism’: Mother Bloor and Iowa farmers

May 11, 2016 By Mike Kuhlenbeck

Mother Bloor is famous in labor and radical circles, but unknown to many, she was also a key figure in the farmer's struggle in Iowa during the Depression.

American Grace

November 25, 2015 By Rick Nagin

This poem/prayer was originally published in People's Weekly World in March 2006.

“Green Grow the Lilacs”: Summer of the “Okies”

July 24, 2015 By Ed Rampell

WGTB is presenting Lynn Riggs' 1931 classic Green Grow the Lilacs, wherein two of the townsfolk identify themselves as being one quarter Native.