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Christmas quiz: Do you remember the farming events of 2020? >More in From our Christmas gallery 2019 © Tracey Evans Many people will be glad to see the back of 2020, which has seemingly heaped problem after problem on those working in the agricultural sector. It has not all been bad, of course, but how well do you remember the people, places and events that shaped the past 12 months? 1. In February, George Eustice became Defra secretary...

How has the last week been for you? I have never hit refresh on CNN more times than I have in the last week. I’m just hoping for this stupid stimulus package. The SOS [Save Our Stages] Act is still in there. I saw the bill. It is so real and we fight every single day to make sure that we stay in that stimulus package. We really need this to happen, like now. Congress needs to get it all hammered out this week so they can take it for a vote. We are going into Christmas and people have lost the...

Victory: Ruling rejects company’s bid to rely on decades-old pollution standards to contaminate streams Contacts Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 546-8386, bgestring@earthworksaction.org Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 581-4634, djohnson@meic.org Helena, MT — Yesterday in a victory for clean water, the Montana Supreme Court rejected a key pollution permit for the proposed Montanore silver-copper mine in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in Northwest Montana. Th...

Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is interviewed on MSNBC inside the spin room at Ballys Las Vegas Hotel & Casino after the Democratic presidential primary debate on February 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Theres the light at the end of the tunnel, but theres still not going to be any mosh pits in January and February." Sen.  Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) is optimistic Congress will pass the new COVID-19 relief package that includes Save Our Stages, a $10 billion relief bill she c...

December 15, 2020 | London: Over 100 Conservative MPs, including Ministers have been contacted since Boris’s gaffe in PMQs last week on the mistreatment of peaceful farmers protesting in India. All Conservative MPs who have responded have indicated they were disappointed with Boris Johnson’s lack of awareness and response with the totally inappropriate reference to Pakistan while replying to a question raised about India’s farmers protests by MP Tanmanjeet Singh Thesi. It is u...

| 00:03:49 Todays Song of the Day is "The Great Divide" the latest single from The Shins, out now. Related Stories James Mercer of the Shins talks about The Great Divide Jill Riley of The Currents Morning Show interviews James Mercer of the Shins about the bands new single, The Great Divide. Mercer also talks about how hes been spending his time during the pandemic, and about what the Shins have been doing in support of Save Our Stages. The Shins perform in studio ...

December 13, 2020 | First thing first, a term is to be decided to be given to what farmers in India (especially from Panjab) are doing these days in Delhi, the capital region of India. ‘War’ or ‘Fight’ suits the best but we’ll continue with ‘Struggle’ as we still think ‘them’ (Delhi rulers) to be ours and ‘war’ will be too harsh for it. They are using age expired tear gas apparatus and water cannons in this chilling time on their own people representing themsel...

December 13, 2020 | Hoshiarpur: Dal Khalsa has dedicated this year’s World Human Rights Day (WHRD) to the rights of farmers and political prisoners from Kashmir to Punjab to central India. To commemorate the 72nd anniversary of Rights Day, the Dal Khalsa leaders released the poster in this regard during a press conference held here today. They demanded the release of those prisoners, who were framed in false cases due to their political belief and ideology beside those who have co...

Full text of statement issued by Canadian Union of Postal Workers reads as follows:- Farmers in India are rising to protest three new laws adopted in their country that have important ramifications for the average Indian farmer. Essentially, this set of bills eases restrictions on corporate interests like those of Monsanto and penalizes millions of small independent farmers in the process. In a historic push to protest these laws, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers and their global allies ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The letters SOS are an internationally signal call for help. But close to home, SOS also points to the needs of the food pantry at Austin Peay State University, where it stand for Save Our Students. The S.O.S. Food Pantry has been helping students since 2012 with free food and has expanded over the years to provide other items and services. Any student with an Austin Peay ID has access to the food pantry. It all began in a closet at the university’s stu...