How to Prepare for a Raid…
At the Wise Traditions conference in Dallas recently, I met John Moody who has quite a story. He spoke at the Chapter Leader's meeting on how to be prepared in case you're raided by a government agency over raw milk, or some other equally “menacing” food rights issue. (Such law-breakers we real foodies are.) John said that he told his small kids, “Someday men with guns might come to our house, but it's okay...” He did that to prepare them for what would surely be a frightening situation. (Be sure to watch the Rawesome raid video and also read about the Manna Storehouse raid if you haven't already.) John knew there would be government action at some point against the food buyers club he manages, and he was right. Thankfully there were no guns this time…
Read the rest of this article on the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund site, where I am now proud to be a contributing writer. 🙂
Photo by Cheeseslave
NA says
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matt says
Hi, I just read you article as it came through the FTCLDF newsletter today. Thanks! You asked the question about maintaining phones and contacts. I find it valuable to keep spare phones around (each car, backpack, fire safe). these phones are old cheap ebay phones ($10). I make sure to get a phone that will sync its contacts with my google account, that way they all have an identical up-to-date contact lists with no effort. I activate them with a pay-per-use cards from a carrier like pageplus cellular (they are a Verizon reseller, only much cheaper). There are cards that don’t expire for a year. This way if we ever forget or break a phone, or a friend needs to borrow one, or a battery just goes dead while you are away from home, one is waiting nearby.
Upgeya says
In answer to your question, Kelly, encrypt your files using the free shareware called TrueCrypt (https://www.truecrypt.org/)
and store them offsite using DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/).
Both are free.
Ann Marie @ CHEESESLAVE says
What a fabulous post!!!! Brought tears to my eyes!
Kendahl says
Way to go, Kelly! This is awesome, and I loved reading your article 🙂
Commenter via Facebook says
Easy, build a Berlin wall.