The Senate Agriculture Committee welcomed three new senators of color: Booker, Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Raphael Warnock, the Democratic freshman senator from Georgia. That’s why he’s especially geeked to be making history this month.
And in rural areas hit hardest by the pandemic, farm workers, many who are Latino and undocumented, were left isolated without access to tests, treatment or information. Under the Trump administration, direct loans to Black farmers plummeted by almost half, according to the USDA. Rural + farmer does not always equal white.īlack and brown farmers historically have had a hard time getting loans and credit from the Department of Agriculture. And these days, the struggle for racial equity is increasingly playing out in agriculture politics. Cory Booker, health nut, onetime presidential candidate, former Newark mayor and self-proclaimed “boo” of Rosario Dawson, wants you to know that food - and farming - are racial justice issues. Anyone challenging business as usual in their fields. That includes longtime advocates, politicians, emerging players - and artists for whom art = activism. Fridays, we bring you The Sitdown, a forward-looking Q&A with people doing interesting work around politics and policy. Tuesdays, we bring you news and data and dispatches. Your browser does not support the video tag.Today’s newsletter is a little different.
The president of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan recently spoke with Politico about the so-called religious left. Jones: "I grew up with a very strong sense of the scary and really devastating presence of the far religious right." The president of the Manhattan seminary claimed: "The newer kid on the block is right-wing conservative Christianity, which gets most of the media attention as representing Christianity in the United States." Serene Jones said she's been part of the religious left her entire life and claimed it's growing. Jones is a minister in two protestant denominations, the Christian Church, also known as Disciples of Christ, and the United Church of Christ. Speaker outside abortuary: "We will walk together around, dropping petals that represent our care and our holding and our prayer for all people who need abortions and all of those who work with them." In 2019, some of Jones' fellow ministers in the United Church of Christ traveled to a Planned Parenthood abortuary in Milwaukee. Jones noted Warnock, a fellow self-identifying pro-abort pastor, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, "of whom we are very proud." Jones ascribes what Politico calls "increased talk of the religious left" to everything coming to a breaking point, which she thinks can be seen vividly by men on the religious left taking power, like Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock. Jones described the religious left as an interreligious reality, "a religious left that includes people from many religious traditions and spiritual people who may not have a specific tradition. The seminary president predicts that growth will give rise to hearing more about socialist ideas like Universal Basic Income and more institutions addressing what she classifies as white supremacy. We need to have a course in eco-justice and church." Jones: "If the world we are seeing now is a glimpse of the world to come, we need to have a course in public health and church.
In various interviews, Jones has discussed her own life struggles. Here's a reminder of the top developments:Ī big one was discovering, at the end of her mother's life, that her mom had been unfaithful to her father, which she said fractured his faith, stifling their conversations on theology she had previously enjoyed.We're pausing our live coverage on the aftermath of Wednesday's events at the US Capitol. He added it was "totally unacceptable" police had shown more leniency than in Black Lives Matter protests last yearįormer First Lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday's events "desecrated the centre of American government", adding: "Millions voted for a man so obviously willing to burn down our democracy for his own ego" President-elect Joe Biden described the violence as "one of the darkest days in the history of our nation" and blamed President Trump for stoking violence. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, urged Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows for a transfer of power from the president to the vice-president Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has led calls for Trump to be removed from office.
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