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Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Majority will pass its one-house budget resolution that delivers emergency aid to help New York recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and invests in a brighter, more equitable future by fully funding essential services and putting more money in the pockets of working and middle-class families. The Senate resolution increases total school aid by $5.7 billion, provides billions in residential and commercial rental and foreclosure assistance, restores critical funding to our health care system, and jumpstarts our economy with investments in transportation and small businesses. The Senate Majority’s proposal asks the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay their fair share rather than balancing the budget on the backs of working families.
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Nfamara Badjie (left) and Moustapha Diedhiou weed the fields at the Badjies rice farm in Ulster Park, NY. Black farming and food security topic of next Rural Humanities webinar
February 24, 2021
As part of a conversation on Black land ownership, farming and food security, Rural Humanities will offer a webinar, “Black Land Matters: A Rural Humanities Webinar on Black Farming and Food Security,” on March 4 at 5:00 p.m. The event is free and open to all; registration prior to the event is recommended.
The webinar will feature Natalie Baszile, filmmaker and author of the novel Queen Sugar, and Karen Washington, farmer and co-owner at Rise & Root Farm in Chester, New York, and activist and co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS). Their discussion will be moderated by Anu Rangarajan, director of the Cornell Small Farms Program. The panelists will discuss how discriminatory practices at the national and local levels, intimidation and leg
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