Jean Robinson to WA farmers: Don’t submit to murderous banks and their politicians, fight with CEC!
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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Jean Robinson to WA farmers:

Don’t submit to murderous banks and their politicians, fight with CEC!

Citizens Electoral Council WA State Secretary Jean Robinson is leading the fight in Western Australia against the murderous push by banks and politicians to force as many as 1200 family farmers off their land within weeks.

Click here to view a video statement by Jean Robinson on the clear-cut solution to the WA farm crisis, that would save both the farmers and the nation’s major wheat growing capability in the WA wheatbelt. (3 mins 35 secs).

All Australians must rally to the CEC’s fight to save this cornerstone of our national food production.

The same banks that have run up $20 trillion in bets by gambling on toxic derivatives, and thus are themselves bankrupt, are starving a significant percentage of wheat growers in the heart of the nation’s major wheat growing region of the credit they need to finance this year’s crop—and it is seeding time right now!

WA’s 4300 wheat growers carry $12 billion in debt, on which they pay more than 9 per cent interest. The banks are colluding with foreign grain cartels and the corrupt major political parties to force the wheat growers to their knees, so the farmers submit to demands that they privatise and sell Australia’s last major rural cooperative, CBH (Cooperative Bulk Handling).

WA’s Liberal Party Premier Colin Barnett has shamelessly betrayed his own rural constituency by only offering a piddling $20,000 to farmers to leave the land. The federal Labor government’s package of $60 million for concessional loans might appear more generous in comparison to Barnett’s, but the result will be the same: the conditionalities attached to those loans, to ensure they only go to “viable” farmers, will become the excuse to knock back hundreds of farmers, and fast-track them off their land.

Jean Robinson and a contingent of CEC activists witnessed firsthand the collusion between the major parties and the murderous banks, when they attended the 15 April crisis meeting in the wheat belt town of Merredin.

At that meeting, the Liberal Party-tied organisers cancelled the final session, in order to ensure that a CEC resolution, demanding specific government action to address the crisis, was not heard or voted on. Click here to read the CEC resolution.

What you can do:

Watch Jean Robinson’s video statement, and join the CEC.

Click here to watch on YouTube or on Vimeo.

Order and distribute bulk copies of the CEC’s newspaper headlined, Do You Intend to Die for the Banks?

Confront anyone you know who is connected to the major parties (MPs, councillors, unionists, etc) and demand they act to stop this crime by implementing the CEC’s solution.

Click here for a free copy of the latest New Citizen, “Do You Intend To Die For The Banks?”

Click here to join the CEC as a member.

Click here to refer others to receive regular email updates from the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia.




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