IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind conducted a workshop on fighting the racist, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic far right at the Missouri Rural Crisis Center’s “30th Anniversary Annual Meeting” on August 22 in Columbia, Missouri.
Zeskind recounted the family farm crisis of the early and mid-1980s, and described the broad-based coalitions that tackled the anti-Semitic far right that targeted farmers during that time. At the request of workshop participants, the topic of contemporary far right racist, anti-Semitic and bigoted groups was broached to good effect. The Missouri Rural Crisis Center was founded in 1985 to defend family farmers, and today it has a program of building economic and social justice for farmers and rural people in Missouri.
