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At the core of everything we do are individuals, families and communities fighting for our right to safe, healthy food and clean water. Explore some of the stories that inspire us onwards.
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    When His Dad Died, He Googled Teflon And Cancer And Found Out About PFAS.

    09.6.19

    Ersel Hickey was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather known around his small town of Hoosick Falls, NY as a neighborly, kind man. Just months into his retirement, he was told he had cancer. This is the story of how his grieving son looked into where that cancer could have come from and found out way more about his town’s water than he bargained for.

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    Corporate Control of Water
    Ersel and Michael Hickey before cancer and PFAS changed their worlds forever.
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    'You'll Never Even Know We Were Here,' Sunoco Told Ginny. They Lied.

    12.2.18

    When Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners came to Chester and Delaware counties just outside of Philadelphia to push their plans to drill, they didn't dream that Ginny and her community would put up the fight that they have. Now that these neighbors have had some success in tangling Sunoco's plans, they're planning to fight even harder to get the company's pipelines out of their yards.   

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Ginny Kerslake stands in front of the neighborhood Sunoco is infringing on with its drilling.
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    Hallucinogenic Found In Meat, But The USDA Isn’t Taking Action

    10.17.18

    When banned drugs are found in random samples of meat, you would hope it would trigger an investigation of how the drugs are getting there. Instead, the USDA has been refusing to act. Why?

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    Broken Democracy
    Corporate Control of Food
    Is this beef irradiated?
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    Fracking Is A Water Hog That's Stealing Our Futures

    08.31.18

    A team of Duke University researchers are delivering a truth that’s hard to swallow — fracking is resulting in the disappearance of usable water. Will the people listen and do something in time?

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Fracking
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    We're Literally Eating and Drinking Plastic. Blame Fossil Fuels.

    07.30.18

    The plastics industry sees fracking as a huge opportunity for their profit margins. But plastic has already entered our food and water supply and our bodies—one more reason we need to move off fossil fuels before the problem gets even worse.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Fracking
    Plastic bottles gathered in the ocean
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    Why Gov. Brown is No Climate Leader

    07.9.18

    Jerry Brown may not deny climate change the way Donald Trump does, but that by no means makes him a climate champion. 

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    Update on our 2018 Campaigns

    06.13.18

    In all our campaigns, you make change possible! Read more below about campaigns around the country you make possible that impact real people in a real way, every day.

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    Fossil Fuel Exec Says 100% Renewable Energy is Possible Now, and Then Backtracks

    07.17.17

    A Sempra Energy VP tells an audience of energy execs and journalists that the technology is available now to power California entirely by renewable energy. He walks back his comments after they are reported in the media.

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    Climate Change & Environment
    Wind turbines with solar panels
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    Food & Water Watch Canvass: Building a Movement Door by Door, Person by Person

    07.5.17

    “If you’re driving a movement forward that will be long-term and sustainable, you can’t just talk to the people you agree with.”

    Food & Water Watch canvasser speaks to resident
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    How One Activist is Fighting to Get Florida Off Fossil Fuels

    05.29.17

    At the launch of the Off Fossil Fuels campaign, Florida activist Brenda Probasco shared how she's made a difference in the fight for a statewide fracking ban. 

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    Fracking
    Brenda Probasco
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