English

12/14/17 #1377

Richard Fields, Timothy Snowball, John Cameron

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky (First Amendment/Political Speech) (SCOTUS) Minnesota bans political t-shirts etc. at polling places under penalty of $5000 fine.

Spivey v. United States (police/gov agents cannot lie to gain "consent" for warrantless search of home) (SCOTUS).

Ricketts v. Miami Shores (city says cannot use front yard for vegetable garden for own consumption/property rights) (FL Supreme Court).

Host David Delk talks with Shari Sirkin, Exec Director of Friends of Family Farmers on what Friends of Family Farmers is and why it was formed and the conflict between family farmers and corporate farms, like mega-dairies. We talk about CSAs - Community Sustained Agriculture as a way for individuals to support local family farmers. CSAs represent a partnership between the eater and the grower.

"A Wave of Renewable Energy Resistance is Taking Root" (8 minutes)

This film tells the story of the Solar XL campaign, from where it started to where it's going. It takes you to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where the pipeline would run half a mile outside its border. It also shows the family farm of Jim Carlson in Nebraska where the first solar installation went up in his family’s corn fields.