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January 3, 2022 In News

The Counter: Independent cattle ranchers continue fight against national checkoff program

For 28 years, rancher Kyle Hemmert ran cattle auctions out of his sale barn near Oakley, Kansas. He had a front-row seat as the industry changed over the decades, and he didn’t like the direction it was going. ...

December 17, 2021 In News

Reuters: Biden farm debt relief plan to exclude thousands of minority farmers

The latest version of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in farm debt - initially targeted at farmers of color - will exclude thousands of its originally intended recipients because of a change in loan eligibility, according to government data reviewed by...

December 15, 2021 In News

A Passion to Serve: Gaining Access to Workers Compensation Insurance for All Michigan Farmworkers

A Passion to Serve host Don Kuchnicki speaks with David Muraskin, Senior Litigation Attorney with the Public Justice Food Project. During the interview we discuss the lawsuit that was recently filed in the State of Michigan to ensure undocumented workers have access to workers compensation...

November 22, 2021 In Press Release

After Sponsoring Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law, Rep. DeAnn Vaught Refuses to Defend its Constitutionality

The Arkansas state representative and factory farm owner who sponsored the state’s Ag-Gag law stated in a court filing on Friday that she waives her right and the right of her industrial hog farm, Prayer Creek Farm, to ever bring a legal action under that...

November 22, 2021 In Press Release

Food Worker and Food & Farm Justice Organizations Support the Introduction of the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 (PAMWA)

Today, Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ro Khanna announced the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 (PAMWA). Meat and poultry processing workers--a majority of whom are people of color--are vulnerable to exploitation by the handful of massive corporations dominating the industry....

November 12, 2021 In News

Civil Eats: Public Interest Groups Urge the EPA to Regulate Factory Farm Emissions

Since 2005, large-scale livestock operations have skirted air pollution laws under a deal with the second Bush administration. Now, advocates are petitioning the EPA to do its duty. ...

November 11, 2021 In News

NowThis Politics: Biggest U.S. Pork Producer Allegedly Misled Consumers

The biggest U.S. pork producer is being sued for 'misleading' consumers about meat shortages....

November 6, 2021 In News

The Detroit News: Suit targets rules on compensation for undocumented workers injured on job

An advocacy group is turning to the Michigan Court of Claims to change state policies and grant pay for undocumented immigrants injured at work. The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, represented by Public Justice and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a...

November 5, 2021 In News

Gongwer News Service: Immigrant Rights Advocates Sue Whitmer Over Workers’ Comp Denials

An immigrants rights group on Thursday sued Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the Court of Claims over the state's alleged denials of workers' compensation to undocumented individuals hurt on the job....

November 4, 2021 In Press Release

Grupo de Derechos de Inmigrantes presenta un litigio para Asegurar que los Trabajadores Indocumentados de Michigan Reciban Compensación por Accidentes Laborales

Hoy, El Centro de Derechos de Inmigrantes (“MIRC”), representados por Justicia Pública (Public Justice) y El Centro de Derecho para la Justicia Económica y Social Sugar (Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice), presentaron un litigio para asegurar que los inmigrantes indocumentados lesionados en...

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