Working Papers For A New Society, Summer 1973
IT IS JUST within the realm of possibility that low-income groups, by joining with environmentalists, labor and other progressive forces, could bring about a favorable distribution of land ownership in California. The mechanism for doing this could be a state government trust fund which might be called the California Land Conservation Fund.
The New Republic, March 24, 1973
UNDER the rolling plains of eastern Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas is one of the world’s last great energy reserves — nearly a trillion tons of lignite and sub-bituminous coal, about 35 billion of which are readily strippable. A good many ranchers, young people and others, however, don’t want to mine it.
The New Republic, September 2, 1972
THERE must be a broad commitment by the federal government to assist agricultural workers, rather than tax-evading doctors, to become farm owners.
The New Republic, June 19, 1971
IT’S HARD for people in cities to appreciate the need for land reform in the United States. Most of us have been so cut off from the land that, through ignorance, we accept present landholding patterns as desirable or inevitable. They are neither.
The New Republic, June 12, 1971
UNTIL the 1920s, it was natural for field laborers to aspire to become small farmers. Today it is almost unthinkable.
The New Republic, June 5, 1971
A HUNDRRED years ago, land for the landless was a battle cry. How things have changed.
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