Publications and Research

Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act (PAMWA) (2023)
Farm Bill Backgrounder - Labor (2023)
Farm Bill Backgrounder - Producers (2023)
Farm Bill Backgrounder - Communities, Not Corporations (2023)
Farm Bill Backgrounder - Nutrition Assistance (2023)
Farm Bill Backgrounder - Climate & Environment (2023)
The Prison Industrial Complex and Foul Play in Food Service (2017)
Power Structures in the Prison Industrial Complex (2017)
The Prison Industrial Complex and Agricultural Labor (2017)

Federal Advocacy

• In Defense of Our Food System, Workers, and Environment: HEAL Transition Memo (December 2024)

Farm Bill

• RE: Prioritizing Recommendations for the 2023 Farm Bill (September 2023)
• Protect Farmers and Foodchain Workers in the Farm Bill (June 2023)
• RE: Recommendations for a thriving Farm Bill for us all (March 2023)

Credit Justice

• RE: Opposition to Weakening, Overturning, or Exemptions to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Rule 1071 (May 2024)
• RE: Support for CFPB Section 1071 Rule and Opposition to Congressional Review Act to Overturn 1071 Rule (November 2023)
• Re: Support for CFPB Section 1071 Rule and Opposition to Congressional Review Act to Overturn 1071 Rule (September 2023)
• RE: Support for CFPB Section 1071 Rule and Opposition to Congressional Review Act to Overturn 1071 Rule (July 2023)
• Support for Proposed Section 1071 rule and Opposition to H.R.7768 - Farm Credit Administration Independent Authority Act (R. Davis), (September 2022)

Corporate Consolidation

• Response to Department of Justice (DOJ) /Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Request for Information on Illegal Merger Enforcement (April 2022)

Racial Justice

• 3 Key Takeaways from the Latest USDA Census of Agriculture (March 2024)
• Comments on the inaugural meeting of the USDA Equity Commission (March 2022)
• Testimony of The HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance Oakland, CA to the United States House Committee on Agriculture for the written hearing record, on the state of Black farmers in the U.S. (April 2021)

Climate

• Public Comments on the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (April 2021)

Labor

• Letter to Congress to support the Child Labor Exploitation Accountability Act (September 2024)
• Letter to Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety urging the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to reject the National Chicken Council (NCC)’s request to waive line speed limits in poultry processing plants and facilities across the United States (December 2017)

• Plank 1: Dignity for Food Workers
• Plank 2: Opportunity for All Producers
• Plank 3: Ensure Fair and Competitive Markets
• Plank 4: Promote Resilient Regional Economies
• Plank 8: Phase Out Factory Farming