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Faultline News Volume 1, Number 7
October 2, 2001
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Have you all got your breath back after the last month?

We hope so, and we think it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work
keeping this country one worth defending, with a vibrant, diverse biome and
an equally vibrant and diverse body politic. People just like you have kept
the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from being sacrificed this week
in the name of National Security, and there's more to be done. What better
way to show you love a country than to save some of it?

And where better to start than California's agricultural land?
This week, the House of Representatives will be discussing HR 2646, which
would redirect federal farm subsidies away from the giant, wasteful
agribusiness firms currently receiving them and toward smaller growers, many
of them organic or "boutique" farmers. The bill would also redistribute fed
dollars more fairly in a geographic sense, and California's farmers would
receive millions more for protecting wetlands and streams, reducing
pesticide runoff and keeping their land out of the hands of developers. The
Environmental Working Group deserves some plaudits for helping get this
issue out in the open.
http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/10/farmsubsidies.html

But it isn't all politics out there on the range. Faultline editor Chris
Clarke pays a visit to a bison ranch in Stanislaus County, where ranchers
are trying to provide an alternative to the hormone-laden,
antibiotic-dependent, creek-destroying, just plain stupid meat beasts that
now make up your hamburgers.
http://www.faultline.org/place/2001/10/bison1.html

In other news, attorneys working on the Bari/Cherney suit have revealed that
DNA evidence links several letters the FBI has been holding onto for years:
it may not be long before we identify the person who placed the bomb in
forest activist Judi Bari's car in 1990.
http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/10/bari.html

Meanwhile, the relentless Center for Biological Diversity is publicizing the
sorry case of Albert Seeno, a development company that's now under
investigation for bulldozing endangered herp habitat - which is apparently
nothing new for Seeno.
http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/10/seeno.html

Also in Faultline this week, Arcata globalization activist Aaron Lehmer
offers a guest opinion on some of the causes of the terrorist attacks on NYC
and DC:
http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/10/priceofignorance.html

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Chris Clarke      | Editor, Faultline Magazine
www.faultline.org | California Environmental News and Information