#Missouri Call to Action!

#HB903, which lowers the cap on foreign corporate ownership of Missouri farmland to 0% and closes the W-9 loophole, passed the Senate and is now headed back to the House Floor. House leadership can choose to either accept the Senate version of #HB903 (this is what we want), or go to a Senate/House Conference Committee to iron out the differences.

Please call House Leadership TODAY, and tell them to pass the Senate passed version of House Bill 903.

🧵Tell the USDA to Stop Mandatory Electronic Animal Identification for Cattle!

*Deadline to Submit Comments is THIS Monday, March 20th!

Why this matters: Mandatory animal I.D. is yet another tactic by the multi-national meatpackers to control MORE of our food system and the cattle and beef markets, squeezing family farmers out and giving consumers less choice on grocery store shelves.

Submit comment here. Talking points follow.
federalregister.gov/documents/2022…

#Missouri SB 254 & HB 574 are part of a multi-year campaign by corporate agriculture to take away all avenues for Missourians to protect our property, air & water; and protect our communities from the pollution & other negative consequences caused by corporate factory farms. 🧵 SB 254 & HB 574 are identical. They attack Local Control by barring county commissioners & local health boards from investigating complaints that CAFOs may have violated local health ordinances. This would make enforcing local health ordinances *very* difficult or impossible.

#Missouri House Bill 499, a Law Enforcement Bill of Rights is up for a hearing next week in the house, Monday the 8th at noon. Talking points and link to witness form follow in thread.
house.mo.gov/billtracking/b… HB 499 would severely limit officer accountability. Under this bill, an officer could only be questioned when they are “on duty”. They would get 48 hours notice before any questioning and they would be notified exactly who would be questioning them, allowing for intimidation.

#Missouri📣 Good Foreign Ownership Bill Gets A Senate Ag Committee Hearing On Monday, March 1st. Submit testimony in favor here: senate.mo.gov/senatewitnesss…
Talking points follow ⬇️ SB 243 would stop foreign corporate ownership of #Missouri farmland, prohibit any future foreign corporate purchases of Missouri farmland, and stop the advance of foreign-owned CAFOs in Missouri.

The #Missouri Department of Natural Resources has begun the rule-making process and are attempting to change the definition of groundwater so CAFOs can build more easily in Missouri. 

The public comment period for this rule change runs Feb 16th through March 25th.🧵 Please email the #Missouri Department of Natural Resources stating why you oppose removing "perched water tables" from the definition of "groundwater table".

If you submitted a comment in November please re-submit it now as previous comments will not be included for this round.

There are three important bills coming before the #Missouri legislature next week and @aclu_mo is leading the way with instructions for submitting testimony 🧵

First is HB 876, an essential police reform bill. The hearing will be on Monday, 2/15. HB 876 would prohibit the use of chokeholds, prohibit officers from soliciting detainees for sex, and ensure that officers who have been discharged for misconduct do not get rehired.

Follow along and participate at #CripTheVote.
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Thread with facts about this move. ERS & NIFA don’t need to be “close to producers” as farmers are not their stakeholders. Their stakeholders are Congress, USDA policy officials, & researchers, all of which reside in DC & who use their research to create policy for the benefit of farmers.
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Thread: This week in #Missouri #MOleg SB 4: senate.mo.gov/19info/BTS_Web…
SB 14: When determining child custody arrangements, an award of equal or approximately equal parenting time to each parent, giving the child equal or approximately equal access to both parents, is in the child’s best interest.

Harvard U research “said a voter-registration page on the .@MissouriSOS website was among those ‘vulnerable to voter identity theft attacks’ by impostors who obtained various personal information.”
.@JayAshcroftMO “called the work a ‘bad study’...”
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news-leader.com/story/news/pol… .@JayAshcroftMO

“doesn't believe” hackers could meddle

has “a lot of confidence” in our systems

expects MO elections “to remain secure”

“can’t see (hacking) happening”

doesn’t “have the sense that” the system was hacked

is “unaware of any attempt to hack”

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This story just keeps getting worse. Romanik has now given out a Missourian’s home address on the air, encouraging listeners to go to the activist’s home & expose themselves to him. This dangerous, deluded man should not have a platform. 1/

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2/ Trigger Warning for hate speech if you want to listen to the broadcast: bit.ly/2HSfKjl
To file a complaint with the FCC, you will need to know that the show aired 5/3/18 on KQQZ 1190am at 10am & 4pm.
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