LISTEN NOW: The Onions Are A-Changin
Come gather 'round, people
wherever you roam
And look at the onions
American farmers have grown
You can buy them this evening
and carry them home
But their futures
you won't be trading
There's a law in the books
that won't leave them y are a-changin'
Come writers and critics
who laugh at our stand
Come to the CFTC
with an onion in hand
And don't speak too soon
till you understand
What it is that we're out here demanding
You can trade all your international skim milk powder but your onions are banned
For the times they are a-changin'
Come Senators and Congressmen
please hear the call
Don't stand in the doorway
don't block up the hall
We've got our own onions
enough for you all
And the crowd at the CME is raging
Put the law in the books
or we'll be here all fall
For the times they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers
You sent us to Chicago
and now here we stand
With a bag full of onions
and one small demand
The right to do some onion trading
Please get out the way
if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn
the curse it is cast
There's a crop with no future
and a law from the past
You can take all your time
but the onions won't last
The bags on the streets are decaying
So you better go vote
and you better vote fast
For the times they are a-changin'
@ChairmanSelig @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara @tamarawinter @SeanCasten @NikkiBudzinski @iampaulgrewal @HereComesKumar @AlmostMedia @FormerCFTCGC @gurgavin @exec_sum @PopBase @LinkofSunshine @pelositracker @pitdesi @CNLiberalism @CMEGroup @drwconvexity @CharlesFLehman @ByrneHobart @tszzl @ajit @BradBourque @PEWilliams_
Come gather 'round, people
wherever you roam
And look at the onions
American farmers have grown
You can buy them this evening
and carry them home
But their futures
you won't be trading
There's a law in the books
that won't leave them y are a-changin'
Come writers and critics
who laugh at our stand
Come to the CFTC
with an onion in hand
And don't speak too soon
till you understand
What it is that we're out here demanding
You can trade all your international skim milk powder but your onions are banned
For the times they are a-changin'
Come Senators and Congressmen
please hear the call
Don't stand in the doorway
don't block up the hall
We've got our own onions
enough for you all
And the crowd at the CME is raging
Put the law in the books
or we'll be here all fall
For the times they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers
You sent us to Chicago
and now here we stand
With a bag full of onions
and one small demand
The right to do some onion trading
Please get out the way
if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn
the curse it is cast
There's a crop with no future
and a law from the past
You can take all your time
but the onions won't last
The bags on the streets are decaying
So you better go vote
and you better vote fast
For the times they are a-changin'
@ChairmanSelig @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara @tamarawinter @SeanCasten @NikkiBudzinski @iampaulgrewal @HereComesKumar @AlmostMedia @FormerCFTCGC @gurgavin @exec_sum @PopBase @LinkofSunshine @pelositracker @pitdesi @CNLiberalism @CMEGroup @drwconvexity @CharlesFLehman @ByrneHobart @tszzl @ajit @BradBourque @PEWilliams_
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In the United States, trading onion futures (contracts to buy or sell onions at an agreed-upon price on a future date) is illegal.
Here’s why. 🧵⬇️
Here’s why. 🧵⬇️
HAPPENING NOW in downtown Chicago, outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the historic center of onion futures trading
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The 1958 Onion Futures Act banned futures trading of onions, and they remain the only agricultural commodity banned in America. This is a grave injustice. Join us in working to repeal the ban!
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"Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures," in @MarketWatch
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@foronionfutures @tomhfh @GBNEWS @foronionfutures is a syendoche for financial revolution. The onion ban is senseless; so is so much else.
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Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures trib.al/UJOKhMz
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Are the protestors in France upset about the rising price of soupe à l'oignon gratinée? Would onion futures have saved the country? @foronionfutures
Onion farmers deserve predictability.
Unban onion futures.
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Today has been quite the whirlwind for us all. Thank you to all our supporters and backers, old and new, who’ve helped us get to where we are! Stay tuned for further actions :)
cc: @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @ChairmanSelig @iampaulgrewal @HereComesKumar
cc: @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @ChairmanSelig @iampaulgrewal @HereComesKumar
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We thank fellow concerned citizen @luanalopeslara for her support!
@mansourtarek_ free the onion
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Yes, the fight was indeed continued today! Will you join us?
The fight for onion futures continues today in Chicago.
For those wondering how we got here, Congress banned onion futures in 1958 following market manipulation. Decades later, Hollywood successfully pushed to add a prohibition on box office event contracts.
Apparently, this debate still has a few layers left to peel back. Watch:
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Thanks for the write up @AlmostMedia!
Day 2118 is about Walla Wall Sweet Onions, liberal regional arts colleges in western rural states, the famed 1958 Onion Futures Act and the unregistered UChicago student protest encouraging its repeal jfredrickson.com/day-2118-and-w…
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Me when I see content from the Onion Futures kids
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.Community noteStudent movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
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