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Seeding Revolution! HEAL’s 2024 Year in Review
Download HEAL’s 2024 Year in Review Our vision is clear. In the future we dream of, all of us have the opportunity for meaningful, dignified work, and deep, lasting connections to the land. In our vision, vacant lots become vibrant gardens where pollinators thrive, rural communities breathe freely, and riparian restoration heralds the […]
Ten Bills to Create Dignity and Safe Working Conditions for Food and Farm Workers
By Nichelle Harriott, Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance This piece serves as the second blog of the series “Agricultural Workers, Essential but Excluded,” in partnership with Union of Concerned Scientists Food and farm workers touch every part of our food system: they plant and harvest crops, process meat and poultry, conduct food safety inspections, stock […]
Sowing Collective Care – HEAL’s 2024 Rapid Response Fund Impact Report
Download HEAL’s 2024 Rapid Response Fund Report A fruitful and abundant garden depends on the many interconnected parts of its ecosystem – energy from the sun, water from the sky, nutrients from the earth, and even other plants’ components – to thrive. Launched amidst the chaos of 2020, HEAL’s Rapid Response Fund is […]
HEAL Food Alliance Endorses Chairwoman Stabenow’s Farm Bill for Rural Prosperity and Urges Swift Bipartisan Action
HEAL FOOD ALLIANCE ENDORSES CHAIRWOMAN STABENOW’S FARM BILL FOR RURAL PROSPERITY AND URGES SWIFT BIPARTISAN ACTION The Senate farm bill includes key HEAL priorities, such as support for small farmers, climate resilience, and nutrition assistance, but falls short on worker protections. November 18, 2024 NATIONAL – With just weeks left in her tenure, U.S. Senate […]
65 Organizations Co-Sign HEAL Letter of Support For the Child Labor Exploitation Accountability Act
On September 17, 2024 the HEAL Food Alliance sent the following letter to Senate and House ranking members of the Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee and the Committee on Agriculture urging them to support the Child Labor Exploitation Accountability Act (S.1288/ H.R.2822) and include its provisions in the next farm bill. Download the letter […]
A Call for Radical Solidarity and Care: The Impact of the Supreme Court Decisions
By Navina Khanna, Executive Director, HEAL Food Alliance The recent Supreme Court rulings are a stark reminder that it will take all of us to change systems that were never designed for us. From turning courts into policymakers to giving presidents near-total immunity from prosecution, these latest opinions advance a worldview that values corporate profits […]
HEAL Food Alliance Applauds New Federal Rule to Protect Millions of Workers from Extreme Heat
July 15, 2024 – With a dangerous heat wave scorching much of the country, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed the first-ever federal standards to protect workers from the deadly effects of extreme heat stress. In response, Navina Khanna, Executive Director of the HEAL Food Alliance, shared the following […]
HEAL Food Alliance Opposes Policies in House Farm Bill, Including Exclusion of Workers, Cuts to SNAP, and Removal of Support for Climate-Related Programs
May 17, 2024 – Today, after an extreme delay, the House Agriculture Committee released its 2024 Farm Bill, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024. The HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance opposes the committee’s short-sighted recommendations for the bill. Even with the delay, the House Farm Bill falls far short of […]
Farmers, Food and Farm Groups Oppose Partisan Efforts to Weaken New Federal Rule Addressing Discrimination in Agricultural Lending
NATIONAL (May 15, 2024) – Today, 130 organizations including the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Rural Coalition, the Center for Responsible Lending, and Self-Help, a national CDFI, sent a letter to Congress opposing multiple targeted efforts by Republican lawmakers to weaken, overturn, and provide exemptions to Rule […]