Farm Aid 2010, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:1980s by U.S. farmers had been hard hit, the worst since the Great Depression economic conditions. Famine devastated the area,
property values plunged, loan interest rates soared, thousands forced off their land and faced foreclosure and bankruptcy. Upper Midwest in the number of male suicides among farmers double the national average by medical centers form a national study arrived. And in 1985, a Los Angeles Times dubbed form policy “the most difficult issues facing Congress.”
The farm problem was widespread, but the issue July 13, 1985 was thrust into the light quality when Bob, Live Aid, for Africa’s famine victims in a multi-site benefit concert took the stage. “I hope that this money is raised for people in Africa and that maybe he is, maybe a little … … fields from one or two million to pay for some only take Mortgages can, “the forum by size, said Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium.
Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof said that the Public – legend’s comments “crass, stupid, and nationalistic.” Farm Help – - His 25th birthday concert on October 2 Milwaukee, Wisconsin will hold but I saw something where apathy, musicians Willie Nelson (who raised cotton as a child worked), John Mellencamp and Nile Youth benefit concert hosted his own get inspiration.
Is the inaugural concert in aid forms, more than 50 artists – Bob size, Billy Joel, Benazir Bhutto, including King and Johnny Cash – 78,000 ticket holders for wet rain ‘performed at the University of Illinois Champaign Stadium (their own expense). “The concert went into those moments where farmers and … elation and the feeling that you just wanted to cry about was one,” Rhonda Perry, Missouri Rural Crisis Center and the Patchwork Family Farms runs said. “Here we at least know that people are watching.”
14-hour telethon performance and legal assistance and job placement needs more than $ 9 million for aid to help poor farmers, a farming service hot line, counseling, and taken to help. Although the first show by Nelson 50 million dollars in income is significantly less than the original purpose was, founder and farmers, who insisted that he did not want a “bail out,” said Agriculture the greatest benefit from financial assistance benefits had nothing to do. “If nothing else, forget the money” Mellencamp said after the concert was first announced. “We are here for awareness.”
In addition, farmers’ struggle to create awareness, form of aid is also the founder of the problems to which attention can be sought – primarily, in Washington to improve agricultural laws . “We’ve found the real problem and is the only way out of this optimization,” Young told the Washington Post in 1985 he. However, the U.S. Bureau of the form, Nelson’s farm aid and finally using income support controversial 1985 farm bill lobby against the decision by founder and criticism after the debate. However, Nelson and Young personally to Congress three days before the concert first-aid appeal form. Young on October 4 this year in the United States today has a full-page ad, saying President Ronald Reagan: “America’s farm families as a result of your administration will die?”
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