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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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    What Banning Fracking in Butte County Taught Me about Grassroots Organizing

    06.17.16

    Food & Water Watch Organizer Ella Teevan learned some homegrown lessons about activism while helping clinch a landslide fracking win at the ballot.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Frack-Free Butte County Campaigners with Food & Water Watch's Ella Teevan
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    How Selfies Are Fighting Against the DARK Act

    05.25.16

    Michiganders found a quick and powerful way to fight for GMO labeling—with selfies. 

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Food
    GMOs
    Photo petitions collage
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    Keep It In the Ground

    05.12.16

    Food & Water Watch and 200 of our closest friends gathered recently on a sunny morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico to protest an auction to lease public lands for energy exploration and fracking. 

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Banner: New Mexico Ban Fracking
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    Life in the Land of Frack-quakes

    04.21.16

    At her home in Oklahoma, Jamie Glazier experiences fracking-related earthquakes almost daily. She explains what that means for her family, and how she's fighting back.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
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    Fighting for the Human Right to Water in Flint

    01.27.16

    Michigan native Darcey O’Callaghan explains who’s responsible for the state of Flint’s now-undrinkable drinking water.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Water
    Activists deliver petitions asking HHS to declare a public health emergency in Flint
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    Opposing Undemocratic Pipeline Approvals in New York

    10.6.15

    Community activist Susan Van Dolsen works in her community to stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Susan Van Dolsen
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    How One Photographer Is Protecting Colorado from Fracking

    05.5.15

    For Colorado photographer John Fielder, public lands are his muse – and they need our protection.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    John Fielder
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    Standing Up For Philadelphia’s Sustainable Economy

    04.6.15

    I’m standing with Food & Water Watch and the other organizations working to fight the “Dirty Fossil Fuel Plan.”

    Topics: 
    Fracking
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    A Decision No Family Should Have to Make

    12.14.14

    Food & Water Watch supporter Ann’s family was able to get away from fracking, but the fact is that not all families have the means to leave.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
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    Don’t Frack Glacier National Park, Montana's Natural Treasure

    09.21.14

    Eleanor Guerin, a former National Park Ranger, knows first-hand why Glacier is too precious to damage with fracking.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Ranger at Glacier National Park
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