Hear: Lend A Hand To The Farmers
a new collaboration by Willie Nelson and Marty Dread
Got Food?
Help Yourself, your Family, your Friends, your Neighborhood and Community. In short, help everyone who you depend upon for life and happiness.
Make sure you and yours have enough to eat.
We have been told lies such as that creating debt and creative financial instruments are actual productive activities. The fact is our primary producers produce raw materials.
Primary Producers:
Farmers, Fishermen, Loggers, Miners and Recyclers
Those who work with raw materials to produce the products that we depend upon for life and happiness are also producers. In short, physical human labor appears responsible for all productive activity.
Banks and Governments, Insurance and Real Estate, and their Agents produce nothing. They provide services at a cost to producers.
Please Consider:
It May Not Be Wise
To Consistently Short Change
Society’s Productive People
That “good deal” you get with lower food prices gained by squeezing farmers actually turns out to be a Very Bad Deal when farmers do not receive enough payment to produce more food.
Now you see food prices go up and up. This price increase goes to pay for increased transportation costs driven by the rising price of oil and the need of Banks and Governments, Insurance and Real Estate, and their Agents for more money to gamble with.
It only appears to be in your own best interest to find ways to support your local family farms. You have to know by now that Banks and Governments, Insurance and Real Estate, and their Agents are not going to do it.
After all, you have to eat something.
Hear: Lend A Hand To The Farmers
a new collaboration by Willie Nelson and Marty Dread
* * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *
It all comes down to roots.
We as a people should cultivate the ones who cultivate the food.
Without these folks, we are like a tree with no roots.
A tree with no roots will eventually rot, and fall over.
We can save ourselves from this fate by
lending a hand to the farmers of this land,
put the power of production back into their hands.
Marty Dread
Thanks to Turk Pipkin for the photo of Willie Nelson and Marty Dread
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jay Greathouse, iR. iR said: @cureworks Willie's new song http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/5247/lend-a-hand-to-the-farmers.html will you make a video using soundtrack? [...]
if you haven’t heard of them check out transition towns.people are fed up with just about everything.
support local,when you buy think about the effect and consumption that goes into that purchase.what does the company support?are they treating their workers fairly?
do they care about the environment?most of all support your local family farms!!!!!
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oh great song too.we’ll be jammin it in the garage this weekend.
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What a wonderful jam. Putting the webeo together. JOY!!!
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Willie & Dread,
I just love this song! Can I put it on my website with Credits and Linked to you? WE are transitioning into Community Supported Agriculture this year. I have great faith in God and what we are doing. CSA’s help us build “Community” and to me that is so important; especially in the crisis times we are facing.
Thanks a bunch for all your help,
Farmer Mary
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i am an urban farmer with dreams of going rural…starting a csa this year in hopes of creating a connection between people and their food…it’s all about awareness and then action…thanks for your contributions!
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Amy, as an urban farmer with dreams of going rural you’re in a perfect position to help create a connection between people and their food. Write us a press release or article about how you plan to do it. We’d love to feature your ongoing adventure on: http://willienelsonpri.com/
Please see our invite and guidelines:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/5308/press-release-submission-guidelines.html
Thanks for making a positive contribution.
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Farmer Mary, why don’t you make a video using the song and then we can write an article about your CSA efforts? We’ll be happy to include links in your article on: http://willienelsonpri.com/
As we told Amy above we can do an ongoing guest feature about your CSA adventures.
Please see our invite and guidelines:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/5308/press-release-submission-guidelines.html
Keep up your important work. Thanks for connecting.
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Glenn, look forward to hearing your version. Love to give you a platform to speak as a farmer in this new era. We’ll feature both song and video individually. Thanks, Bro.
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Nayer, we share the joy together and await your next vision of a healthy positive vibrant future where we return to our roots, plants, flowers and fruits.
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[...] Lend A Hand To The Farmers [...]
Music video for your enjoyment “~)
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/blog/Time-Again-Lend-Hand-Farmers-Lower-9
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Liz Reply:
April 16th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Flux, great video. Thank you for creating a video that shows folks making a difference. Definitely a hopeful and positive response in the face of adversity. Do you want to submit a statement to go along with your feature? Look forward to featuring you on WNPRI.
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Thanks Willie and Marty…
I am a grower (food farmer) and want to start a community farm… Needing dirrection and knowledge ….
Hey Willie… We met in the rain at Skullbone, Tn… Had a great time… CF
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