[PEN-L:1345] THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER - A Proposal (fwd)

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DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES:

In an effort to not only provide folks like yourselves and the
organizations you belong to with the news, analysis, relationships and
perspectives in the fast-moving world of corporate agribusiness, but
also to financially sustain my work in that field I am proposing the
publishing of a weekly e-mail newsletter, THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER.

As you note in the proposal below I am not at this time seeking
individual paid subscriptions, but rather funding and subsidization from
organizations and groups that like those you belong to or know about.For
that reason I would appreciate any help you might be able to provide in
bringing this proposal to such groups attention.

In addition to the outline which I have offered below I should note that
when the EXAMINER material is sent to you by e-mail it will be sent by
"blind carbon copy," thus you won't be burdened with a long list of
e-mail addresses every time you readthe newsletter or the daily
articles.

I also should add that when and if the money is forthcoming so that I
can begin publishing this newsletter you will receive, unless you
specifically request to be removed from the mailing list, the EXAMINER
on a weekly and the article on a daily basis

Along with this proposal you will also receive the "Premiere Issue" by
separate e-mail by way of illustration of what the AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER
will look like from week to week.

Let me take this opportunity, therefore, to thank you in advance for
your interest in this proposal.                  Al Krebs


                        THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER

Goal

To end corporate rule in agriculture and establish economic and
political agrarian democracy

Objective

To report, digest, analyze and publish the activities of corporate
agribusiness from a public interest perspective to farmers, consumers,
public officials and other interested parties

Means

Utilizing computer, World Wide Web and e-mall technology publish a
weekly e-mail newsletter THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER each Thursday which
would report, digest, analyze and publish the current news and
activities of corporate agribusiness
as it effects the economic, social and political lives of farmers,
consumers and the general public. Included in the newsletter would be
various and topical World Wide Web links to key corporate agribusiness
information sources.

Currently, there is no one exclusive source that assembles, interprets,
establishes relationships and publishes corporate agribusiness
information on a regular basis
from a public interest perspective

Recipients of THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER would also receive on a
five-day-a-week basis the full text of a selected and topical e-mailed
corporate agribusiness-related story culled from the world-wide press of
that day.

Funding

Given the fact that four to five hours a day would be required to
research, assemble, publish and distribute THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER'S
weekly and daily material a permanent subsidy would be required to
finance the editorial supervision of such a service. Such a subsidy
would be a $5000-$10,000 contribution per sponsoring group, per year
which would include incidental expenses.

Organizational subsidizers would also have the option of publicly acting
as sponsors and\or as official "senders" of the service, thus extending
their own services and ideas. In effect, these organizations would be
putting THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER'S editor\publisher on salary to be
their public education and information conduit relative to current
corporate agribusiness issues; a salaried person that could unite these
organizations under the aegis of a Corporate Agribusiness Public
Education Cooperative.

Editor\Publisher

A.V. Krebs is Director of the Corporate Agribusiness Research Project,
P.O. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201, U.S.A. (206) 258-5345
[E-Mail: avkrebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] and is the editor-publisher of The
AgBiz Tiller Online, an Internet newsletter devoted to monitoring the
activities of corporate agribusiness from a public interest perspective.

The author of The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness (Essential
Books, Wash. D.C.: 1992) is a native Californian and a journalist and
has been a public interest advocate for over 38 years. He has worked
with the National Sharecroppers Fund (1969-70), Jim Hightower and the
Agribusiness Accountability Project (1971-75), Consumer Action-San
Francisco (1975-76), Rural America (1979-82), Ralph Nader's Center for
the Study of Responsive Law (1989-92) and PrairieFire Rural Action
(1993-95).

He is also a member of the board of directors of the North American Farm
Alliance, the National Family Farm Coalition and an at-large member of
the National Council of the Affiance for Democracy and one of its
founding members. His work appears regularly in The Progressive Populist
("The Calamity Howler"), the Minnesota Farmers Union paper ("The
AgBizTiller"), and the Alliance for Democracy's Alliance Reports
("Raising CAIN").

A graduate of Seattle University ('57) his initial interest in
agricultural and rural issues came in the early 1960s as a free-lance
journalist covering Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in
California's Central Valley. Recently the recipient of the National
Farmers Union's Milt Hakel Award awarded on an annual basis to an
outstanding journalist for national coverage of topics critical to
family farmers and ranchers and to rural communities, he now resides in
Everett, Washington.

Currently working on a research and national organizing project for
Ralph Nader dealing with the increasing corporate control of sports and
athletics, he began his journalism career working for four and one-half
years with the Los Angeles Examiner in the sports department.

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DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES:

<P>In an effort to not only provide folks like yourselves and the organizations
you belong to with the news, analysis, relationships and perspectives in
the fast-moving world of corporate agribusiness, but also to financially
sustain my work in that field I am proposing the publishing of a weekly
e-mail newsletter, THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER.

<P>As you note in the proposal below I am not at this time seeking individual
paid subscriptions, but rather funding and subsidization from organizations
and groups that like those you belong to or know about.For that reason
I would appreciate any help you might be able to provide in bringing this
proposal to such groups attention.

<P>In addition to the outline which I have offered below I should note
that when the EXAMINER material is sent to you by e-mail it will be sent
by "blind carbon copy," thus you won't be burdened with a long list of
e-mail addresses every time you readthe newsletter or the daily articles.

<P>I also should add that when and if the money is forthcoming so that
I can begin publishing this newsletter you will receive, unless you specifically
request to be removed from the mailing list, the EXAMINER on a weekly and
the article on a daily basis

<P>Along with this proposal you will also receive the "Premiere Issue"
by separate e-mail by way of illustration of what the AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER
will look like from week to week.

<P>Let me take this opportunity, therefore, to thank you in advance for
your interest in this proposal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Al Krebs
<BR>&nbsp;

<P><FONT SIZE=+1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER</FONT>

<P>Goal

<P>To end corporate rule in agriculture and establish economic and political
agrarian democracy

<P>Objective

<P>To report, digest, analyze and publish the activities of corporate agribusiness
from a public interest perspective to farmers, consumers, public officials
and other interested parties

<P>Means

<P>Utilizing computer, World Wide Web and e-mall technology publish a weekly
e-mail newsletter THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER each Thursday which would report,
digest, analyze and publish the current news and activities of corporate
agribusiness
<BR>as it effects the economic, social and political lives of farmers,
consumers and the general public. Included in the newsletter would be various
and topical World Wide Web links to key corporate agribusiness information
sources.

<P>Currently, there is no one exclusive source that assembles, interprets,
establishes relationships and publishes corporate agribusiness information
on a regular basis
<BR>from a public interest perspective

<P>Recipients of THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER would also receive on a five-day-a-week
basis the full text of a selected and topical e-mailed corporate agribusiness-related
story culled from the world-wide press of that day.

<P>Funding

<P>Given the fact that four to five hours a day would be required to research,
assemble, publish and distribute THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER'S weekly and
daily material a permanent subsidy would be required to finance the editorial
supervision of such a service. Such a subsidy would be a $5000-$10,000
contribution per sponsoring group, per year which would include incidental
expenses.

<P>Organizational subsidizers would also have the option of publicly acting
as sponsors and\or as official "senders" of the service, thus extending
their own services and ideas. In effect, these organizations would be putting
THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER'S editor\publisher on salary to be their public
education and information conduit relative to current corporate agribusiness
issues; a salaried person that could unite these organizations under the
aegis of a Corporate Agribusiness Public Education Cooperative.

<P>Editor\Publisher

<P>A.V. Krebs is Director of the Corporate Agribusiness Research Project,
P.O. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201, U.S.A. (206) 258-5345 [E-Mail:
avkrebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] and is the editor-publisher of The AgBiz Tiller
Online, an Internet newsletter devoted to monitoring the activities of
corporate agribusiness from a public interest perspective.

<P>The author of The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness (Essential
Books, Wash. D.C.: 1992) is a native Californian and a journalist and has
been a public interest advocate for over 38 years. He has worked with the
National Sharecroppers Fund (1969-70), Jim Hightower and the Agribusiness
Accountability Project (1971-75), Consumer Action-San Francisco (1975-76),
Rural America (1979-82), Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive
Law (1989-92) and PrairieFire Rural Action (1993-95).

<P>He is also a member of the board of directors of the North American
Farm Alliance, the National Family Farm Coalition and an at-large member
of the National Council of the Affiance for Democracy and one of its founding
members. His work appears regularly in The Progressive Populist ("The Calamity
Howler"), the Minnesota Farmers Union paper ("The AgBizTiller"), and the
Alliance for Democracy's Alliance Reports ("Raising CAIN").

<P>A graduate of Seattle University ('57) his initial interest in agricultural
and rural issues came in the early 1960s as a free-lance journalist covering
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in California's Central Valley.
Recently the recipient of the National Farmers Union's Milt Hakel Award
awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding journalist for national coverage
of topics critical to family farmers and ranchers and to rural communities,
he now resides in Everett, Washington.

<P>Currently working on a research and national organizing project for
Ralph Nader dealing with the increasing corporate control of sports and
athletics, he began his journalism career working for four and one-half
years with the Los Angeles Examiner in the sports department.</HTML>

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Economics Department
California State University
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