Being asked to die for Corporate Ag is like receiving a patriotic request to die for the phone company. Don’t do it. Instead, rise up and shake off the tyranny of investor-owned agricultural corporations.
A friend of our campaign recently wrote:
“My first impression of the Riverview situation is to consider an antitrust action. It’s almost like they are the AT&T of agriculture in our area. AT&T and Mountain Bell once owned the entire telephone market. They faced a lawsuit to break up their monopoly. Similar action is necessary to break the monopoly Riverview has in the area. Their deep pockets are driving the little guy out of business.
“Avoiding the outcome Riverview creates is the very reason we have antitrust laws.”
Gentle reader, please don’t think our campaign is proposing a lawsuit. Our campaign has never promoted litigation–and we never will. Corporate Ag can lawyer up much better than the regular-ass people they’re dispossessing, so it’s a losing hand.
What we’re proposing is a popular uprising of everyday people who will say, “We can govern ourselves. We know how to protect groundwater better than anyone in Phoenix or Bisbee.” In future GMMs we hope to tell the story of the self-governing St. David Irrigation District (SDID) in the San Pedro Valley.
Our friend’s point is that if Riverview walks, talks, and quacks like a monopoly, it’s probably a monopoly. If that’s the case, Riverview’s illegal. Given the abysmal political climate, it will be up to us to stop their ongoing theft.