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<br />Irene Brodi:_ .age 101, has wrj~en 10 Washln'gton, D.C., ~oncernln'g abuses she perceives in the national farm subsidy program. She stands
<br />~~~f~~rCla' reading nook equipped with a magnrlyi~9 monUor in her Presbyterian Homes, residence, Arden Hills, (Review photo by Brad
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<br />A person is never too old to fight injustice
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<br />i\.J:tp:E:N;~:LJ:.S);~;i eye. She also has a special new coqxmlLion. attorneys devise to deal with rules
<br />':"--.ii\,-,,,,;,i,;;/iN: device to help her hear. She was so angered by this involving government paymcrrts."
<br />__,/__" """,,,,,'''''~'., o~ a rece~t "60 Minutes" sham Ihat she gal out her walker Thccasc is nOw in court, he adlled,
<br />by Pamela O'Meara program s~_saw a segment on lhe ,and took a petition 'around to her Wh~ COljlaCaed about Brodie's
<br />Irene Brodie of Arden Hills, farm subSidy p.rogram sot up to neighbors at the Presbyterian Letter and petition, Vema's office
<br />age 101, is living proof that a. help small.farmers. .T~e program Home, Arden Hills, Campus: said the congressman is interested
<br />. person is never too old to fight porU'llYcd a wca, llhy fanner wllo set explaining tlle [.<lud in the farm in learning' more abnut Iier
<br />injustice in the world _ even if up a fake cprpoIation of many subsidy program.' Over 100 ,concerns. ,
<br />slle is legally blind, very ha/d of small farmers to receive the rcsidenlssigned it She then wrote". "It may be a crazy crusade ----,. J
<br />hearing and uscsa walker, govemmcntmoney. to President George" Bush, don't know,~ Brodie S<lid. "I h(lJlC
<br />Brodie keeps up on what's Secrewyof Agriculture Edward they'll bring out some reforms ill
<br />going on in the world by "reading" "BUT MOST ALL, of ,the Madigan, Minnesota Sens. pave the agricultw-e,pepanmenL And the
<br />the daily newspaper, attending moneywenUo this fellow, and DUIenburgerand:paul :WeLlstone, farm subsidy"program isn'l l,he
<br />weekly current events discussions, (among the, members of the phony and Congressmen GerIy,Sikorski only problem,...... paying people not
<br />and following "60 Minutes," corporation were) ~ black men, and Bruce Vento and enclosed a 10 plant.isanother. It's a wnsle 01
<br />"MacNeil-Lehrer" and shabbily-dressed and one missing a copy of herpclition. ,taxpayers',money." , '
<br />"Washington Week in Review':, on tooth,: ~cren 't farmers at all but A friend and fellow' resident at Brodie .8l'so has other cunccrns
<br />TV. To watchthcse programs, ~he_w~r~"hired by this ~an ~t ,tlle PresbytcrianHome, age _92 about what's going on in America
<br />sits sideways right next lo~e ._,I~U~lmum,_wage," she sal? The herself, typ~ up:,B~od.~c'~.1~t~.r ,- the mjsleading,SlalClllenL~ made
<br />Ielevisiun, so ~hc.,., .can ti\'tc~,~~~".,::e~.~,,~~.~.ware of th.e.l~ ,b.os.s which &.'iid: "w.e appcu~,!-O. Y9!l.\O ',' by cand.idatcs at the lIalionill
<br />,," '~bl,,~_':,!\of,;.'><,' ;.1" ".,.,,:'" _ use your aulhont~ to ~.m8;n!xi\llll",.,,_Qn~.C,\~Li.ons..,,~Ql~~}(allll~Je, 3].HI
<br />r" <,)(. ..,~...."'\~,, " '. speedy eut-off of the subs(dleS,' to.- PreSident .Bush s squelchlOg oj 11
<br />bring justice to bear on the' health plan carefully wurked oul hy
<br />pcrpcuaLOrs of this miscarriage of heath care providers and pu.'\scd by
<br />justice !llld government money, and the LegislalUTC in Oregun.
<br />B d. (to ensure) that future funds go to
<br />ro Ie worthy people for which it was SHE READ AROUTihe
<br />. . . intended." Oregon henlth plan in Iii,'
<br />Co"tlllu~<ifr{)UlI."ge6 Brodie expl;lined, "It's nw[ully ]]ewsJlaper~ by using her reaLlillll
<br />hard fur people trying IU make a machine which magnifies wordi60
<br />memories, published ill 1989. Just subsistence living on their farms. times and puts them up ori 11
<br />after she finished the book and was This (farm subsidy) bill was ctrawn computer-like screen. A formcr
<br />getting it -ready for the publisher up by the House and Senate and nurse, Irene said Bush vetoed ;"hc
<br />she suddenly wellt oHm] ill one ey~ ~gned by the president to :help plnn becaus.,e,',it did not pro'?tk
<br />fwm a hemorrhage. Slllall fanners keep ~thcir operation kidney LraIlsp!ants.tO :lIcoh(}licS\lr
<br />BUI sht) cOlllinutls 10 he active. working and gel some,ed\lcation on heroic ..heaILh.,j'lT\.easures r'IT
<br />Hcr cnergy ami cunccrn aboutlhe farming. 1 hate to,see the big cxtremeJy low'bir(~~wcight b;ilJh"
<br />wurld ilavc imp~s.~cd llmsc around COT]Jorutions lake over;lh,e~~illnHy who end upwilh hamlicajls if Ill";
<br />r"rms." "cyen'survive. :.
<br />"I was vcry indignant abuut il
<br />IT'S NOTl'HE FIRST time ,"~nd I stilL~m," shc said, "bUll
<br />her. "She's a \'cry intelligent and p..'1ill. but it doesn't sl(lp her. She's she has writLCll 10 her senator or :', don't know what to do about il."
<br />~etiv~ 'pe~.slll.: c_~)]]siderillg _her doing some!11ing alllhc lime, _ ~ongressman. "1 think I got that She di~, however, send a COJ1~ or
<br />m~rnlltles, s:ud EvelYJI Grccn, her "fUSl because wc'rc' (lhJ unc~jl'l lrom my father. He thought you the_artLcle 10 her son, who IS a
<br />[[lend and fellow resident of the -mC!ln we lose our IllClllaH:K'ultics. should speak up about things," she 'physio;!an, ,,/
<br />Preshytcrian I rume. wJ'o mc it'sju.st 11'5 g,mxl for the world, l(~ knuw 111<)1 . explained. Brodie has also. wrilicn a book.
<br />llI~a...in~ tJmt it wuman_ber ~gc is we nre still pcople 'Willullinds So far, ~e has rcc~i"ed a leller A IesideDl of the'Pr?sbyt.c~iun
<br />~ILil vllal ellough and vllnlly illlercsleu in \lur J:(1VCflllll~'1l1 lllhl from Damel Shawm ,llle U.S. Home for seven years, she JOlllell
<br />~lltCrc.~lcu. tu S<.'C I1mt things that ~ trying III help hUJLlalLilY,"~'('H'i:J1 Dcpartment of 'Agriculture the writing club a few yeurs ago. "I
<br />. UTegu~U' HI our gllvellllllClll should added. "And thel\: arc!ilill IlI'(llliI' Ihanking her for her leuer and got assignments, did thCllI and, then
<br />be put light inlerestcd ill Illlncsl\" ill petition. Sh,aw suggested Ihal.rne thought".'Wl1y don'l.l put them all
<br />"~he puts lhe rcSI \lJ' us l\l su\'ernlll~'Ul.n man Brodie saw on "60 Minutes" together for my children'!'" The
<br />shallle. She's had blllll knces was lllking advantage of an result Wil$ a book of her childhuod
<br />rcplaceiJ, walks wilh a w;tJker, is in uninlentional loophole in the farm
<br />sub~idy progra~. It's a "nev,~r- Brodie...
<br />en~l~g baILie, he wrote, .to ConIJnuednnP., 8
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