The Bad River Reservation is 125,000 acres situated on the Southern shore of Lake Superior. It consists of five distinct communities and 570 families spread across Ashland and Iron Counties. The reservation only has one grocery store, and the next nearest one is a thirty minute drive away from the majority of the communities. Without alternative grocery stores much of the community does not have easy access to fresh produce.
Over the past year the Bad River Food Sovereignty initiative has grown over 1700 pounds of food! The food has been distributed to the Elderly Program for use in their daily meals, to the community through a weekly event named Free Food Fridays, and to various community feasts and events.
We’re looking to expand and extend our production next year and recently constructed two high tunnels that would add an additional 2,000 square feet of growing space. Not only do the high tunnels add growing space, they also extend the season.
Any money raised during the Seed Money campaign will be used to buy accessories for watering/irrigation, trellising twine/clips, and row covers to assist in overwintering plants. Most importantly it will be used to help feed and educate the community!
Trump has long made it a practice to tear up his papers and throw them away. It is a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act, which is supposed to prevent another Watergate-style cover-up. When the National Archives sent staff members to tape these records together, the White House fired them.
In 2017, a normally routine document released by the archives, a records retention schedule, revealed that archivists had agreed that officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement could delete or destroy documents detailing the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants. Tens of thousands of people posted critical comments, and dozens of senators and representatives objected. The National Archives made some changes to the plan, but last month it announced that ICE could go ahead and start destroying records from Mr. Trump’s first year, including detainees’ complaints about civil rights violations and shoddy medical care.
It’s not just ICE. The Department of the Interior and the National Archives have decided to delete files on endangered species, offshore drilling inspections and the safety of drinking water. The department even claimed that papers from a case where it mismanaged Native American land and assets — resulting in a multibillion-dollar legal settlement — would be of no interest to future historians (or anyone else).
Virtually all the papers of the under secretary of state for economic growth, energy and environment are also being designated as “temporary,” despite the incredibly broad responsibilities of that office — from international aviation safety to foreign takeovers of American firms.
It is hard to know why the government is not even holding on to records about antidumping efforts, or the protection of intellectual property, which fall under the new temporary status. It is perhaps easier to understand why the Trump administration wants to delete other records from the under secretary’s office, including documents regarding the enforcement (or non-enforcement) of “health, safety and environmental laws and regulations.” All this is good news for anyone interested in evading economic sanctions, buying American strategic assets, selling us shoddy goods, stealing our intellectual property or violating aviation safety regulations. Now, even the court of history will be closed.
All this is happening without so much as a congressional hearing…
