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    Tag: rural social justice

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Protecting the Assets of the Rich” Bumper Sticker

    “Protecting the Assets of the Rich” Bumper Sticker

    When a car chase/gun fight on one of the local roads caused a higher number of complaints than usual; the County made an announcement:

    One: There are only a “few bad characters.” Two: Their department was too small. And Three: It would be too expensive for the County to do anything about it.

    Just the sort of response you would expect from a County Sheriff’s Dept. that will only show up in rural areas when it’s called, write a report, and leave.

    Tompkins County’s “Ag Ghetto” policies, like other ghettos in other places, is one of containment. It’s a tool that Urban Colonialism uses to marginalize the rural natives.

    Another tool? High rural property taxes — my neighbor just received a 10% increase in his County assessment: it takes an important amount of money to serve the important areas of Tompkins County.

    Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, government policy, New York State of Corruption, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County and Tammany Hall, Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Greed in the face of need” Bumper Sticker

    “Greed in the face of need” Bumper Sticker

    How does Tompkins County save money? By denying public services to the county’s rural poor.

    Public transportation is stopped miles away from those farthest from doctors, medication and groceries. And the drugs and crime that poverty produce are handled by a Sheriff’s department that only come when they’re called, write a report, and leave.

    The County does maintain one presence; its Assessors are constantly raising rural valuations to enable higher taxes — and rural families living on roads named for them are forced to leave and make room for urban sprawl developments and corporate cronies.

    Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, government policy, rural community, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Poverty is more than color” Bumper Sticker

    “Poverty is more than color” Bumper Sticker

    Poverty may be more than color; but public policy isn’t. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough blacks living in rural New York for the community to be worth caring about.

    Even the pretense of equal worth has been replaced by an openly dismissive “somebody has to take the hit” philosophy, and disguised with an over the top ladling of “the greater good.”

    After all; when “somebody” has to take the hit — it’s always a campaign decision.

    Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, Government and Society, government policy, rural poor, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rural Social Justice” Bumper Sticker

    “Rural Social Justice” Bumper Sticker

    A “what’s that?” bumper sticker. Rural Social Justice is the Social Justice that hasn’t happened yet; and if Urban Colonialism continues to hold its grip — it never will.

    Urban Colonialism, “characteristic of, or constituting control by a city over a rural area or people,” is the de facto policy in New York State. As urban authorities co-opt increasing amounts the state’s rural land for their food, recreation, infrastructure needs [and as an “out of sight” dumping ground]; they act as if they are “bringing civilization to the natives.”

    Rural residents are ungrateful obstructive, and ignorant people, who won’t accept their place in a City-centric social order. Rural communities are resettled, restructured, and the natives are marginalized, driven out, or destroyed.

    In Tompkins County’s most recent Comprehensive Plan: there is no rural community — just a scattering of “urban nodes” in a landscape that supplies food, raw materials, and low-level labor to a “vibrant urban center” — can you get more colonial than that?

    Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, government policy, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “When the morning mist is herbicide” Bumper Sticker

    “When the morning mist is herbicide” Bumper Sticker

    Rural Tompkins County is a place where residents need to be vigilant when they hang out their wash. Giant agricultural boom-sprayers spray herbicides that drift across the landscape like a toxic fog — coating the toys that children play with, and the sheets they sleep on with glyphosate and other chemicals.

    How can Agribusinesses get away with this? Because the regulations aren’t enforced — that’s what friends in high places are for.

    Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, Government and Society, government policy, rural health, rural new york state, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “When politicians won’t kiss your blue baby” Bumper Sticker

    “When politicians won’t kiss your blue baby” Bumper Sticker

    There has never been a long-term study made to evaluate the effects of factory farming methods on the rural community. Such a study would not be welcome.

    How many rural babies have died because of nitrates in their drinking water? Nobody knows. Autopsies are rarely performed on infants.

    If you’re a poor rural family, and a factory farm pollutes your well; what happens? Nothing. That’s your problem. Authorities advise spending a few thousand dollars on a reverse osmosis system or buying bottled water; but that is all they will give: the advice. What can you do? Where can you go? That’s your problem.

    Agriculture-funded politicians and colleges are dismissive of the conditions that rural families are forced to endure; they can afford to be — or rather, they can’t afford not to be. Just follow the money.

    Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, Government and Society, rural community, rural health, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County
    “Escape form Corruption” Board Game: Free Printable Download

    “Escape form Corruption” Board Game: Free Printable Download

    “Escape form Corruption” Board Game Download (1064 downloads )

    This board game borrows material from an upcoming book with the working title: “Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can’t seem to find any difference at all]”.

    This book will present the strongest possible circumstantial case through documented actions, polices, and statements — all pointing in the same direction.

    Posted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Escape from Corruption Free Download, government policy, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “You know you live near a factory farm” Bumper Sticker

    “You know you live near a factory farm” Bumper Sticker

    Life in an Ag Ghetto is like life around Chernobyl: it may look unchanged to those quickly driving by; but the poison is deep in everything — and sometimes it comes to the surface.

    There’s not much biodiversity in all those thousands upon thousands of acres of Tompkins County farmland — because nothing is allowed to get in the way of the bottom line; and that includes the rural residents.

    Factory farms are whole-hearted supporters of Urban Colonialist policies. The concept of food production as an overriding activity increases profits and flattens any opposition. Cornell Cooperative Extension informed the “non-farming” families in rural Lansing that they “didn’t deserve to live there,” and the most blatant environmental misconduct or health debilitating activity is treated with a blind eye or a wrist-slap.

    So the next time you check a label in the grocery store; remember — there’s a little bit of a rural family ground up in there as well.

    Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, Lansing Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Where do our taxes go?” Bumper Sticker

    “Where do our taxes go?” Bumper Sticker

    Where do your taxes go? Do you know?

    In Tompkins County; the rural people pay the same county taxes as everyone else, but do not get any County bus service, Law enforcement patrols, Municipal water, Planning representation, or County outreach — and it’s the county’s urban residents; the ones who receive all of that, who are designated as “underserved” and given special attention.

    This isn’t widely known — but then, we don’t get any media coverage either.

    Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags Cornithaca County, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Urban Colonialism

    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Paste link here” Bumper Sticker

    “Paste link here” Bumper Sticker

    Nature abhors a vacuum — doesn’t everyone?

    There’s always the urge to fill in the blank space; even when you’re not requested to “insert image/comment/URL here.”

    But what constitutes a “blank space”?

    Incomers define our rural fields and meadows as “vacant space” because they have not been defined and demarked as to usage. To them, these “blank spaces” are frightening; objects without labels —opportunities without a profit.

    There is no neighborliness: instead, we’re now a “community,” and our community needs, running and bike trails, a dog park, sidewalks, a “town center,” a high-tax school system . . . a suburban pastiche of county club aspirations and sit-com sensibilities.

    Forcing on the original inhabitants things that they don’t want; at a price they can’t afford.

    The natives either die off, are taxed out, or squeezed into low-level jobs and marginalized living.

    Pure Urban Colonialism.

    Posted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021Categories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, Paste link here Bumper Sticker, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County

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