Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
MS 501
North American Farm Alliance
Records, 1982-1988, n.d.
Descriptive summary
| creator: | North American Farm Alliance |
| title: | Records |
| dates: | 1982-1988, n.d. |
| extent: | 5.62 linear ft. (4 records center cartons and 1 document box) |
| collection number: | MS 501 |
| repository: | Special Collections Department, Iowa State University. |
Administrative information
| access: | Open for research |
| publication rights: | Consult Head, Special Collections Department |
| preferred citation: | North American Farm Alliance Records, MS 501, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library. |
Historical note
The North American Farm Alliance (NAFA) was formed on April 9, 1983 in Des Moines, Iowa, at a farm coalition meeting organized by the US Farmers Association. Over fifty farm, labor and community organizations from the United States and Canada were part of the coalition. The group's goals were to gain parity prices for farm products, achieve fair trade and full employment for farmers, investigate the farm credit system, and end the forced farm liquidations of the farm crisis. The coalition also published a monthly collection of articles which addressed farm policy concerns to assist and inform coalition members, compiled from daily and weekly newspapers and over 700 business and trade periodicals from around the world. |
Collection description
The collection (1982-1988, n.d.) contains newsletters, articles and other publications published by organizations often concerned with agricultural, rural, grass roots, labor and political issues. Most of the publications are by organizations in the United States, but publications of international organizations are also included. For additional North American Farm Alliance records, see also the Merle Hansen Papers (MS 595). Related collections also include the Farm Crisis Committee Records (MS 482), Rural America Records (MS 419), and collections of other organizations held by the Special Collections Department which were part of the North American Farm Alliance. For related collections, see also the National Farmers Organization (MS 481) and the Charles Walters Papers (MS 588). |
Organization
The collection is organized alphabetically. |
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
2 |
3 |
Acres, U.S.A. |
1984-1986 |
2 |
2 |
AFIP and other French language materials |
1985-1986 |
1 |
25 |
AFL-CIO News |
1986-1987 |
2 |
1 |
Agriculture Watchdog |
1983 |
1 |
48 |
AGRI-PULSE |
1986-1987 |
1 |
35 |
AKWESASNE Mohawk Nation |
1986-1987 |
4 |
39 |
Alternative Press Index |
1986 |
2 |
7 |
American Agriculture Movement Reporter |
1986-1988 |
3 |
64 |
Anti Draft |
1988 |
4 |
40 |
Area Business Magazine |
1987 |
4 |
43 |
Assorted Agricultural Publications |
1984-1987 |
4 |
28 |
Barricada International |
1986 |
1 |
34 |
Boilermakers/Blacksmiths Reporter |
1987 |
1 |
33 |
Boycott Census |
1984 |
4 |
9 |
CA Highlights (Communicating for Agriculture) |
1986-1988 |
1 |
24 |
CA/FF Farm Link |
1984 |
1 |
16 |
CALC Report - Clergy and Laity Concerned |
1986 |
2 |
6 |
Campagnes Solidaires |
1987-1988 |
1 |
15 |
Card Report - Center for Agriculture and Rural Development) |
1987 |
1 |
14 |
Cargill Newsletter |
1984 |
4 |
26 |
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association |
1984 |
4 |
24 |
Catholic Relief Services |
1985-1987 |
1 |
21 |
Center for Democratic Renewal Weekly Update |
1987 |
4 |
18 |
Central America Alert and Action - U.S. Out of Central America |
1983-1985 |
1 |
23 |
CFA News |
1987 |
4 |
30 |
Citizen Alert |
1987 |
3 |
62 |
Citizen Alert - Skyguard |
n.d. |
1 |
22 |
Coal Employment Project |
1987 |
3 |
63 |
Coal Mining Women's Support Team News |
1988 |
1 |
20 |
Cornucopia Network |
1986-1987 |
3 |
53 |
Dakota Counsel Newsletter of the Dakota Resource Council |
1988 |
2 |
5 |
Dakota Counsel-Dakota Resource Council |
1986-1987 |
1 |
18 |
Defender |
1987-1988 |
1 |
17 |
Development International |
1987 |
4 |
3 |
Doane's Agricultural Report |
1986 |
3 |
57 |
Doing Business in Iowa |
1988 |
1 |
8 |
Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City |
1987-1988 |
4 |
50 |
Educational Resources of the North American Farm Alliance Educational Project |
n.d. |
4 |
37 |
El Estiliano |
1987 |
1 |
10 |
EPIA Society Digest - End Poverty in America |
1986 |
1 |
9 |
Eskenosen |
1985-1986 |
2 |
4 |
Famine Newsletter |
1985-1986 |
4 |
49 |
FAO in Africa (Food & Agriculture Organization) |
1982 |
3 |
24 |
Farm Alliance of Rural Missouri |
1986 |
5 |
1 |
"Farm and Food Policy: Issues for 1984 Electoral Campaigns" |
1984 |
1 |
13 |
Farm Futures Intelligence |
1984-1987 |
3 |
65 |
Farm Futures Personal Finance |
1988 |
1 |
12 |
Farm Industries Inc: Farmland News |
1984-1985 |
1 |
11 |
Farm Show |
1985-1988 |
1 |
1 |
Farm Show |
1984 |
5 |
2 |
"Farmer-Labor Solidarity: Same Plight-Same Fight" |
1986 |
5 |
3 |
"Farms Not Arms: Forging the Links between Peace and Agriculture" |
1988 |
5 |
4 |
"Forging the Links" |
1983 |
4 |
51 |
"Forging the Links: A Close Look at the North American Farm Alliance" |
1983 |
5 |
5 |
"Forging the Links: A Close Look at the North American Farm Alliance" |
1984 |
5 |
6 |
"Holding Our Ground: Farm Women Fight Back" |
1988 |
1 |
26-27 |
Feed Management |
1986-1988 |
1 |
28-29 |
Fellowship of Reconciliation |
1986-1988 |
1 |
30 |
FLBA/PCA News |
1986 |
1 |
31 |
FmHA Reporter |
1986 |
1 |
32 |
Forward |
1986 |
2 |
8 |
GATT-SCAN |
1986 |
2 |
10 |
Global Perspectives |
1986-1987 |
2 |
9 |
Grassroots Action |
n.d. |
3 |
4 |
Green Letter |
1985 |
2 |
13 |
Groundswell |
1984-1987 |
2 |
14 |
Hammer-Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, Inc. |
1983-1984 |
3 |
6 |
Heartbeat |
1986 |
3 |
1 |
High Lander Report |
1983-1987 |
2 |
11 |
Illinois South |
1985-1987 |
2 |
36 |
Independent Truckers Association |
1984 |
4 |
2 |
Information and Schedule for Agriculture Career Day November 12 |
1985 |
2 |
35 |
Iowa Dairy Marketing News - Mid American Dairymen, Inc. |
1984 |
2 |
27 |
Iowa Farm Unity News - Iowa Farm Unity Coalition (Alert) |
1985-1987 |
2 |
34 |
Iowa Idea |
n.d. |
3 |
49 |
Iowa Idea (Iowa Socialist Party) |
1988 |
4 |
33 |
ISU Agriculture Policy Update – Iowa State University |
1987 |
3 |
59 |
Jefferson Bee |
1988 |
2 |
32 |
Kindred Voices |
1987 |
4 |
25 |
Labor Issues |
1984-1986 |
2 |
33 |
Labor's Champion |
1987 |
2 |
20 |
Land Stewardship Letter |
1986 |
2 |
26 |
Landbouw Maand |
1986-1988 |
3 |
58 |
Landbouw Maand |
1988 |
2 |
31 |
Listen Real Loud |
1985-1987 |
1 |
45 |
Madre Speakers |
1985-1987 |
1 |
38 |
MANNA - International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture |
1984 |
1 |
37 |
Memo From Cope |
1987 |
3 |
7 |
Michigan AFSCME News - American Federation of State, County Municipal Employees |
1986-1987 |
3 |
56 |
Michigan AFSCME News - American Federation of State, County Municipal Employees |
1988 |
3 |
8-13 |
Militant SWP |
1984-1988 |
2 |
12 |
Milkweed: The Farmer's Milk Marketing Report |
1984 |
3 |
14 |
Milwaukee Mobilizer |
1985-1987 |
1 |
36 |
Minnesota AAM (American Agriculture Movement) |
1984 |
3 |
55 |
Minnesota Agricultural Economist |
1988 |
3 |
3 |
Minnesota Agriculture - Minnesota Farmer's Union |
1986-1987 |
3 |
2 |
Minnesota Council of American - Soviet Friendship |
1985-1987 |
2 |
30 |
Minnesota Freeze News - Minnesota Nuclear Weapons Education Fund |
1984 |
2 |
29 |
Minnesota Leader - Farmer Labor Association |
1986 |
4 |
46 |
Miscellaneous Publications |
1984-1988 |
4 |
7 |
Mobilizer |
1984-1986 |
2 |
16 |
Monitor |
1986 |
4 |
6 |
Mother Jones |
1987 |
4 |
29 |
Mountain Collection |
1984 |
1 |
46 |
National Alliance |
1986 |
1 |
47 |
National Anti-Klan Network Newsletter |
1984 |
1 |
19 |
National Catholic Rural Life - Common Ground |
1987-1988 |
1 |
40 |
National Fertilizer Solutions Association Advocate |
1984 |
1 |
43 |
National Unemployed News - National Congress of Unemployed Organizations |
1983-1984 |
1 |
42 |
NCIPA Newsletter |
1985-1987 |
1 |
44 |
NCRLC Common Ground |
1986-1987 |
1 |
2 |
Nebraska Report |
1986 |
3 |
54 |
Nebraska Wheat Board News Release |
1987 |
1 |
41 |
New Farm |
1985-1987 |
2 |
15 |
New Farm |
1983-1984 |
3 |
40-41 |
NFO Reporter – National Farmer's Organization |
1984-1988 |
3 |
43 |
Nicaragua Through Our Eyes |
1987 |
3 |
48 |
Nonviolent Activist |
1986-1987 |
4 |
52 |
North American Farm Alliance: Unity Prosperity Justice |
n.d. |
3 |
46-47 |
North Dakota Farmers Union Farmer |
1986-1988 |
1 |
6 |
North Star |
1985 |
1 |
5 |
Northern Sun |
1984-1986 |
1 |
7 |
Northern Sun |
1986-1988 |
3 |
42 |
Northwest Report |
1986 |
3 |
44 |
NSAS - Nebraska Sustainable Agricultural Society |
1986 |
3 |
45 |
Nutrition Week Community Nutrition Institute |
1985 |
3 |
39 |
Okanogan Natural News |
1987 |
3 |
36 |
Older Iowan Report |
1986-1987 |
5 |
7 |
"Parity Not Charity: U.S. Farmers' Movement in the 1980's" |
1985 |
3 |
38 |
Patriots Information Network |
1986-1987 |
4 |
27 |
Patriots Information Network |
1986 |
3 |
52 |
Peasant Update International (Published by Peasant Movement of the Philippines) |
1988 |
3 |
37 |
People's Daily World |
1987 |
3 |
35 |
People's Path |
1987 |
3 |
61 |
People's Path - issued by the Communist Party of Minnesota and the Dakotas |
1988 |
4 |
8 |
Permaculture Activist |
1985-1986 |
3 |
33 |
Plains Truth |
1983-1984 |
3 |
34 |
Pledge of Resistance |
1986 |
3 |
32 |
Plowshares Newsletter |
1986-1987 |
4 |
44-45 |
Political Affairs |
1983-1987 |
3 |
31 |
Poor People's Press - Legal Services Corporation of Iowa |
1983 |
1 |
4 |
Progressive Student |
1985-1986 |
3 |
30 |
Public Voice Advocacy Update |
1984 |
1 |
3 |
Rainbow Kitchen News |
1986 |
1 |
39 |
Rainbow Organizer - National Rainbow Coalition |
1984 |
5 |
8 |
"Reagan's Farm Policy" |
1984 |
3 |
28 |
Reporter - Mon-Valley Unemployed Committee (Pennsylvania) |
n.d. |
3 |
29 |
Resource Center Bulletin |
1987 |
3 |
25 |
Rich Schaffer from Lewiston, Idaho clip sheets - articles |
1985 |
3 |
26 |
Rural Advancement Fund/National Sharecroppers Fund Rural Advance |
1983 |
2 |
19 |
Rural America |
1983-1984 |
4 |
5 |
Rural American Women |
1984 |
4 |
10 |
Rural Coalition – Agriculture Taskforce memorandums |
1984 |
3 |
27 |
Rural Coalition – meeting agenda |
n.d. |
2 |
18 |
Rural Papers-Kansas Rural Center |
1983-1986 |
3 |
23 |
Rural Wisconsin |
1984-1987 |
2 |
17 |
Rural/Southern Voice for Peace |
1984-1987 |
3 |
22 |
Seeds |
1984 |
3 |
21 |
Sequoia |
1987 |
4 |
4 |
Small Farm Advocate |
1986 |
3 |
18 |
Small Farm News |
1986-1987 |
3 |
19 |
Smith Neal |
1987 |
3 |
20 |
Socialist Voice |
1986 |
4 |
42 |
South End Press Newsletter |
1987 |
3 |
15 |
Southern Fight-Back |
1984-1988 |
3 |
16 |
Southern Neighbors |
1986 |
3 |
17 |
State Watch - MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) |
1986 |
2 |
28 |
State Watch - MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) |
1987-1988 |
3 |
66 |
Successful Farming Article |
1983 |
3 |
51 |
Tennessee Turf (Published by the Tennessee Save the Family Farm Alliance) |
1987-1988 |
3 |
5 |
The Frontline |
1984-1986 |
2 |
21-22 |
These Times |
1985-1986 |
4 |
1 |
Threats to Iowa's Ground Water Pamphlet |
n.d. |
4 |
34 |
Transnational Perspectives |
1985 |
2 |
23-24 |
Travailleur Paysan |
1985-1987 |
4 |
23 |
U.S.D.A. Farm Paper Letter |
1983-1984 |
4 |
35 |
Une Mesure Injustifiable |
1987 |
4 |
41 |
United Property Taxpayers of Iowa |
1987 |
4 |
11-14 |
Unity |
1986-1988 |
4 |
47-48 |
Upright Ostrich |
1984-1988 |
3 |
50 |
Upright Ostrich |
1988 |
4 |
32 |
URCG Newsletter - University Rural Crisis Group |
1987 |
4 |
21 |
W.I.L.P.F. (Women's International League for Peace & Freedom) |
1983-1984 |
4 |
19 |
Washington Newsletter NFU |
1984 |
2 |
25 |
Western Livestock Journal |
1985-1986 |
4 |
15-17 |
Witness |
1986-1988 |
3 |
60 |
Witness |
1988 |
4 |
20 |
Women for Agriculture Minnesota |
1985 |
4 |
38 |
Word and Way |
1987 |
4 |
22 |
World Magazine |
1985 |
4 |
36 |
YWCA Interchange |
1987 |
4 |
31 |
Zenger |
1987 |