{"id":44,"date":"2015-10-25T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-10-25T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:21:55","slug":"black-farmers-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/25\/black-farmers-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Farmers&#8217; Lives Matter:"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\"><strong>Defending African-American Land and Agriculture in the Deep South<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/otherworldsarepossible.org\/black-farmers-lives-matter-defending-african-american-land-and-agriculture-deep-south\" target=\"_blank\">Beverly Bell, Other Worlds<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/otherworldsarepossible.org\/black-farmers-lives-matter-defending-african-american-land-and-agriculture-deep-south\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/otherworldsarepossible.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ben_burkett_photo-480x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Ben Burkett on his farm in Petaluma, Mississippi, with his great-nephew. Photo courtesy of Grassroots International.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;[Monsanto will] take you to court and make you pay back their money. Basically you\u2019re just sharecropping for them, you\u2019re leasing their seeds.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a unique way of buying you off to not fight here. The American consumer doesn\u2019t care as long as it\u2019s cheap. But no matter what farmers plant, the consumer\u2019s got to change the system. People buying the end product have to complain. As long as they don\u2019t complain, there\u2019s no need even talking about it.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending African-American Land and Agriculture in the Deep South Beverly Bell, Other Worlds Ben Burkett on his farm in Petaluma, Mississippi, with his great-nephew. Photo courtesy of Grassroots International. &#8220;[Monsanto will] take you to court and make you pay back their money. Basically you\u2019re just sharecropping for them, you\u2019re leasing their seeds.&#8221; \u201cThey\u2019ve got a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/25\/black-farmers-lives-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Farmers&#8217; Lives Matter:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}