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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Data centers are threatening our food system. Farmers are turning down multimillion-dollar buyouts to protect their land. As one put it: "Once you tear it up, you can never replace it again." Protecting our food future starts with protecting our farmland #Ai 👇🏾 Read the op-ed
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Op-ed: AI Data Centers Are a Threat to Local Food Systems
Water, land, and power used by data centers is needed for local agriculture.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Precision agriculture isn't neutral. Built within systems that favor large, well-resourced operations over small and beginning farmers. It deepens racial inequality, locking out farmers of color instead of investing in them. 👇🏾 Read the full report @ healfoodalliance.org
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join Just Futures on Sept. 30 to explore how labor practices can reveal a company’s values, long-term value, and risk. 🗓️ 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET 🔗 Register: bit.ly/billionaires-web-promo #WorkerJustice #EconomicJustice
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Producers of color have been denied fair access to land and funding for too long. This Farm Bill is our chance to change that. 💥 HEAL is calling on Congress to invest in communities not corporations. 👉🏾Swipe through, learn more. #FarmBill2026
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From food recalls to "poop lettuce," we've seen plenty of reminders this year that our food system isn't working for everyone. 👉🏾 Take Action: Call your Senators and tell them to reject a Farm Bill that puts corporate greed over communities. #PeopleOverCorporations #FarmBill2026
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‼️ End the farm line. Incarcerated people at Angola are still forced to work in extreme heat, facing solitary confinement if they don't meet daily quotas, rooted in Louisiana's history of slavery. A federal court recognized the harm, and still, the farm line continues. #FoodJustice  Learn more 👇🏾
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The future of farming cannot be built on forced labor • Louisiana Illuminator
For the men on the farm line at Angola, agricultural labor is not a pathway to opportunity. It is a state-enforced practice of degradation and dehumanization.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dignity for food workers looks like fair pay, safe working conditions, and real representation. Senator Padilla just reintroduced three bills to deliver that for the 21 million people who grow, process, and prepare our food. Read our full press release 👇🏾 #FoodJustice #FarmBill
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HEAL Food Alliance Applauds Senator Padilla for Reintroducing Bills to Strengthen Protections for Food and Farm Workers | Heal Food Alliance
The three bills would expand federal support and representation for food and farm workers, including critical wage and overtime protections
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interdependence, for the land to flourish, for the land to feel free, blessings to the species above and below. These are some of the things folx told us they want for the land when we asked at @nefoclandtrust We The Land gathering. What's one thing you want for the land? Tell us below 👇🏾
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Right now, Congress is deciding what our food system will look like for years to come. We're calling for a Farm Bill that puts people over corporations, one that supports thriving futures for all people and our planet. 👉🏾 Swipe through to see what we're asking for. #FarmBill2026
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Food is a right, not a privilege. At a time when millions of families rely on SNAP, our elected officials are making it harder to put food on the table, while grocery, housing, and medical costs keep climbing. 👉🏾 Take action, tell your Senator to protect SNAP. #ProtectSNAP #FarmBill
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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Activism works. So what I’m telling you to do now, is to act. Because no one is too small to make a difference.” - Greta Thunberg
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It’s time to hold Big Ag #pesticide companies accountable for the harms their products cost us all! Today HEAL joined @farmstand.bsky.social to stand with farmer and farmworker groups in a fight against Monsanto who claim pesticides are "crucial" for farming despite their harms bit.ly/4s4pxbh
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“Women came forward and accused the organizer of sexually assaulting them or sexually harassing them. When I brought that to the board, they didn’t believe it... I had to stand with the women… I cannot do this work pretending I’m doing justice when I’m hiding injustice.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/wome...
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The women leading the farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez
The sexual abuse allegations against Chavez have rocked them. But their focus is still on protecting other women.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
ICYMI: The House Ag Committee's delayed farm bill was released. Instead of investing in worker safety, climate resilience, or local economies, it doubles down on: + profit for Big Ag and Tech, + prioritizes precision ag and pesticide use + underfunds SNAP healfoodalliance.org/new-farm-bil...
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House Farm Bill Falls Flat, Champions Big Tech at the Expense of Farmers and Workers - HEAL Food Alliance
House Farm Bill Falls Flat as it Champions Big Tech at the Expense of Farmers and Workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – On February 13, 2026, the House Agriculture Committee, led by Rep. Glen ‘GT’ Thompson…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/02/2026
Trump claims that ICE is keeping Americans safer. What are his immigration agents actually doing? Tearing apart families and terrorizing communities. Our colleagues at @revealnews.org tell the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.
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As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind
As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The future of our food systems is community and BIPOC led 🌱! Thrilled to be in community with #FoodJustice leaders from South Carolina, Illinois, and California in the 2026 SoPL cohort. Check out how they are advancing labor rights and food and land justice bit.ly/HEALSoPL2026
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Meet the leaders who are working to transform our food and farm systems
Now in its sixth year, HEAL's School of Political Leadership (SoPL) supports teams of talented, passionate, food and farm justice leaders who are advocating for policies and solutions that will reimag...
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It takes just a minute! Join us in urging Members of Congress to delay the harmful SNAP cost shift to states. Without action, food access will be at risk for millions across the country secure.everyaction.com/Wf7TjlCO3kue...
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hunger has always been a weapon but so is cooperation We are not powerless in the face of SNAP cuts Our farms and mutual aid networks are acts of resistance Thread of resources compiled by @nefoclandtrust.bsky.social to connect folks with info and local resources to navigate the ongoing crisis /1
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We keep us fed we keep us safe Feeding people and mutual aid is how we fight back! #SNAP
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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We filed an amicus brief on behalf of @healfoodalliance.bsky.social to challenge the cancellation of a new data reporting rule. The Trump admin's attempt to invalidate the rule enables discrimination and helps Big Ag take over more of our food system. More at farmstand.org/lending.
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America’s unfair food system was built on lending discrimination. We’re fighting back. - FarmSTAND
American agriculture relies on credit as much as it does seeds, soil, rain, and sun. Without credit, farmers cannot invest in tractors, livestock, or new irrigation systems. They may not survive a…
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
HEAL Organizing Director Maleeka Manurasada breaks down the truth about precision ag: -how it causes real harm to the environment, -destabilizes jobs for farm workers and growers, all while being funded by our tax dollars! bit.ly/PrecisionAgReport
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We know real solutions to the climate crisis don’t come from corporations. They come from the people who care for the land and their communities! Our new report highlights the harms and risks of precision ag and tech in our food system bit.ly/PrecisionAgReport
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Investigate Midwest @investigatemidwest.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
THREAD: Sept. 18 | 12 PM CST Investigate Midwest is hosting a free virtual panel on immigration raids, reform & the future of farm labor. As enforcement ramps up and reforms stall, what does this mean for farmworkers, supply chains & rural communities? Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/immigratio...
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
No one should have to choose between their health and putting food on the table. It’s time for OSHA to support safety, dignity, and protection for the 28 million food and farm workers essential to our survival!
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This isn’t just a climate issue. it’s immigration justice racial justice labor rights and human rights issue. Failure to act now is costing lives #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
Text overlay on blue sky backdrop reads: “All food and farm workers need climate resilience, disaster relief and safety NOW”
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
When working people are protected communities thrive ✨ Heat stress protections NOW for the 28 million working people integral to our communities and essential to our survival! For too long, corporate lobbyists and complicit politicians have put profits over people’s lives 🧵
Text overlayed on blue sky backdrop reads: No one should have to choose between their health and putting food on the table Heat stress protections NOW! Image of a person in a straw hat harvesting greens below is shown with a giant water color sun in the background.
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 27/08/2025
Across the country, libraries are using culinary programs to evolve beyond traditional book-lending, adapt to users’ needs, and reshape themselves into contemporary centers of community.
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How Libraries Are Creating Community Through Food
Libraries nationwide are offering community classes on nutrition, food security, and how to get a good meal on the table.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We want our taxes to feed people not detain them We want our taxes to help families not separate them #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reminder: no one is illegal and all labor is essential! Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We are in solidarity with all immigrant workers and oppose all policies that terrorize communities and separate loved ones. Our tax dollars must fund food, community and care, not fear and billionaires. #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Folks need clarity about what is happening, support during a difficult moment, and alternatives to the current faltering system.” This guide from @grist.org includes status of USDA programs and resources for those seeking additional support! grist.org/food-and-agr...
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Following the USDA’s food and farm funding: Here's what's been canceled and frozen, and resources for those affected
Your guide to federal funding cuts, plus resources for farmers and food businesses seeking support and solutions.
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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Heat protections “should be implemented yesterday” @healfoodalliance.bsky.social. Agriculture and food system workers deserve to stay safe and healthy at work, especially as summers get hotter and more dangerous
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A long-awaited rule to protect workers from heat stress moves forward, even under Trump
While labor experts say the regulation is progressing quickly, advocacy groups wonder what has taken so long
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Now is the time to act! If we want futures where everyone has access to food, care, and a thriving planet we need leaders who invest in people, not corporations and profits Tell the Senate to reject this destructive spending bill and vote “No” on Trump’s big bad bill bit.ly/No2TheBigBadBill
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In the latest HEAL SoPL blog, SOFSA shares how roleplaying 1:1s and revisiting their base-building strategy made their campaign feel clear and doable. “What felt nebulous now feels approachable.” Read more: healfoodalliance.org/aligning-res... #FoodJustice #LeadershipDevelopment #BaseBuilding
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/05/2025
​Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for "War and Genocide" But Not for Healthcare?
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​Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for “War and Genocide” But Not for Healthcare?
Jewish Voice for Peace held its largest-ever national member meeting in Baltimore from April 31 through May 4, with more than 2,000 attending. We feature the address of Democratic Congressmember Rashida...
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 Farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained & targeted for defending farmworker rights and dignity. He's facing a bond hearing at the ICE detention center in Tacoma. 📸 Post your #FreeLelo photo or video today. 🗣️ Take action: bit.ly/FreeLelo #FreeLelo #FarmworkerJustice
5 staff members at the HEAL Food Alliance holding signs that say "Free Lelo and all targeted farmworkers!
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨 Lelo's bond hearing is scheduled for RIGHT NOW at the ICE Detention Facility in Tacoma, WA. #FreeLelo and ALL targeted workers! ICE out of our communities! Learn more about this case at the #LinksInBio and share your photo or video in support of Lelo today.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Do you know why you're eating today? Because a farmworker bent over in the heat of the sun and picked your veggies. A poultry processing worker butchered and packaged your chicken. A transportation worker delivered them all to the market. And a restaurant worker prepared the final meal for you --
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Every day is Earth Day 🌱🌊🌼 – which means every day we can take action to be in deep care with the land, water, and all its inhabitants – including the people who tend it ✨
Earth Day is Every Day on collage image of a farm and masked grower holding up red peppers. Mountain range, a waterfall, and images of various orange, pink, white, purple and green flora and fauna surround the text and cut out image of the grower.
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
On Monday, armed Border Patrol agents entered a Vermont dairy farm and arrested 8 farmworkers. This is the largest single immigration arrest of farmworkers and one of the largest worksite arrests in recent VT history. CC: @migrantjustice.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
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Freedom for Farmworkers!
On the evening of April 21st, armed Border Patrol agents entered a Vermont dairy farm and detained eight farmworkers. This is the largest single immigration arrest of farmworkers – and one of the larg...
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Climate Justice Alliance @cjaourpower.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Almost half of Americans are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared with a year ago and likely to further increase in coming years thanks to the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental rollbacks.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Last week the House voted to overturn two CFPB rules that protect consumers from overdraft fees and crooked practices of digital payment apps "This is a rule that would bring overdraft fees from $35 down to $5 and save families $5 billion a year, or $225 per household per year." bit.ly/4cyvhnJ
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Rural advocates urge CA lawmakers to safeguard banking protections
President Donald Trump's administration has targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so advocates for people in rural communities are pressing California lawmakers to step in. Trump's new b...
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thank you Rep @pressley.house.gov for standing with consumers and voting AGAINST resolutions to overturn the CFPB’s overdraft and payment apps rules. We need these rules to #ProtectConsumers from excessive overdraft fees and Big Tech abuses!
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ASPCA @aspca.org · 11/04/2025
🌟Grant Opportunity🌟The ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming is back—offering up to $100K to groups impacted by factory farming & working for more humane, regional food systems. We've partnered w/ Socially Responsible Agriculture Project on this year's fund. Apply by 5/30 👉 www.aspca.org/news/factory...
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Factory Farms, Local Harms: ASPCA Offers New Community-Focused Grants Through the Fund to End Factory Farming
This year, the Fund to End Factory Farming will support those who are working to keep factory farms out of their communities or those who will track and address industrial agriculture’s harmful local ...
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Must watch interview! Edgar Franks talks about Lelo's scheduled hearing, his past experiences with ICE, and the mass arrest of workers ICE conducted in NW Washington just a few days ago.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
DC Friends! Join us to support our friends @foodchainworkers.bsky.social as they lay out a vision for the future of labor and climate organizing. Register to attend the worker power hour at Busboys and Poets on April 25: bit.ly/FCWAinDC2025 👋🏽 Hope to see you there!
Climat justice is labor justice poster advertising upcoming Food Chain Workers Alliance "Worker Power Cocktail Hour" in DC. In background of poster is an illustration of two farm workers standing in a green field, wearing masks looking off into the distance as fire burns and smoke rises in the background. Bottom of poster includes photos of speakers: Joann Lo, Jose Oliva, and Edgar Franks. At top of poster are event details: April 25, 5:30pm, Busboys and Poets at 450 K Street, Washington, DC.
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Jessica Culpepper @jessculpepper.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
📢 We're hiring at @farmstand.bsky.social! ⚖️ Staff & Senior Attorneys 💻 Digital Comms Associate 🌾 Rural Organizer Join us in fighting for a food system accountable to people, not profit. Apply or share with your people! 🔗 farmstand.org/join-our-team/
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Join Our Team - FarmSTAND
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Farm Aid @farmaid.org · 20/03/2025
Our partners at @healfoodalliance.bsky.social show the ways in which farmers & rural communities will face immediate economic harm without the CFPB's oversight of manufactured home lending, protection against predatory fees in areas with limited banking options: healfoodalliance.org/wp-content/u...
WHY THE CFPB MATTERS FOR FARMERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
Rural Communities Lose Critical Financial
Protections: The Impact of the CFPB
ShutdownThe CFPB serves as a vital financial watchdog—a one-stop shop for people to report problems of financial scams and unfair, abusive, or deceptive practices by financial companies including banks, debt collectors, payday lenders, credit card companies, and credit reporting companies.
Before its shutdown, the CFPB recovered $21 billion for consumers who had been cheated by financial companies.The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau's shutdown has left rural
America exposed to unchecked financial exploitation. Rural communities-already
struggling with banking deserts, disproportionate medical debt, and heightened disaster risks— have lost a crucial advocate that provided $21 billion in consumer relief.WE URGE
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO DEFEND THE CFPB AND TO STAND UP FOR FARMERS, RURAL COMMUNITIES, AND EVERYDAY PEOPLE-NOT BIG BANKS AND THE WEALTHY FEW.
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Overdraft fees are the worst…unless you’re a Republican in Congress. Today, House Republicans are pushing a bill to let big banks charge whatever they want for overdraft fees, overturning a $5 cap. I’m voting NO. Share this video and make sure your rep knows this is not what people want.
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HEAL Food Alliance @healfoodalliance.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tomorrow, the House will vote to overturn CFPB rules banning bank overdraft fees & weaken protections for people using payment apps. This means small farmers will face more financial discrimination & our working families will be hit hard by rising fees. 📢 ACT NOW: healfoodalliance.org/actnow
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