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BLOG POST OF THE WEEKREGENERATION RULES!

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Over the past five decades, as a food, natural health and environmental
campaigner, anti-war organizer, human rights activist and journalist, OCA’s
director, Ronnie Cummins, has had the inspiring and at times depressing
opportunity to work and travel across much of the world.

What has he learned? That people respond best to a positive, solutions-oriented
message.

Gloom-and-doom thinking—the kind that offers no plausible solution, doesn’t
generally inspire people to get involved or take action.

That doesn’t mean we should downplay the seriousness of our current situation.
We face unprecedented life-or-death threats. But, as Ronnie writes:

"That said, I believe that the main obstacle we must overcome, in the U.S. and
worldwide, is that many (if not most) people are locked into disempowering
situations that are causing them to suffer from a pervasive sense of
hopelessness. It’s not that they don’t want to change. But unfortunately, most
people don't really believe things can change."

Ronnie disagrees, of course. Things can change—if we make them.

In his new book
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New Deal,” Ronnie outlines what he calls “Rules for Regenerators,” a roadmap for
positive change.

In this week’s essay, he shares the “Reader’s Digest” version of his six rules
for Regenerators.

Read ‘Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution’
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ACTION ALERTFERTILIZER FAIL

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You know that eating organic
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hormones ( detected
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But there’s another evil lurking in our non-organic food system, one that’s even
harder to detect and avoid: synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
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Fertilizer run-off pollutes drinking water. It’s the cause of the Gulf of
Mexico’s dead zone
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Synthetic fertilizers are also linked to a host of health problems. Each year in
the U.S., it causes tens of thousands of illnesses, including:

• 2,939 cases of very low birth weight; 1,725 cases of very preterm birth; and
41 cases of neural tube defects.

• 12,594 cases of cancer, including colorectal, ovarian, thyroid, kidney and
bladder cancer.

• 4,300 premature deaths due to nitrogen oxide-heavy smog from synthetic
nitrogen fertilizer use on corn alone.

The synthetic fertilizer industry would have you believe that farmers can’t grow
food without synthetic nitrogen.

But as any successful organic or regenerative
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The National Academy of Engineering calls synthetic nitrogen fertilizer
pollution one of the “ grand challenges
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Scientists warn
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Let’s start in our own backyards—by asking our state lawmakers to act.

TAKE ACTION: Tell your state lawmakers: We need a plan to ban synthetic nitrogen
fertilizers!
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PESTICIDE PATROL'TOXIC EMPIRE'

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Children of moms exposed to pesticides during pregnancy have a greater risk for
developing childhood cancers, according to a California statewide case-control study [[link removed]] . The same is true for children exposed to pesticides during early childhood.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the International Journal of Hygiene and
Environmental Health, looked at childhood cancers in rural agricultural areas in
California.

Based on data collected by the California Cancer Registry and the California
Department of Pesticide Regulation's Pesticide Use Reporting system, the study's
authors observed elevated risks for both childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
and acute myeloid leukemia.

Coincidentally, U.S. Right to Know’s [[link removed]] Stacy Malkan updated and republished an article
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(IWF), partners
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article also highlights how the IWF argues against laws that would curb the
power of corporations. According to Malkan:

"IWF pushes the talking points of Monsanto and the chemical industry: promoting
GMOs and pesticides, attacking the organic industry and moms who choose organic
food, and opposing transparency in food labels."

Seems the good old boys at the Koch brothers' " Toxic Empire
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bring more women over to the dark side.

Yet as this latest study shows, it's women—and their children—who are paying a
high price for the reckless use of pesticides .

Read ‘Independent Women's Forum: Koch-Funded Group Defends Pesticide, Oil,
Tobacco Industries’
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SUPPORT OCA & CRLWE DO.
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In our video of the week, “Dark Waters” (see below), actor Mark Ruffalo plays a
lawyer defending a farmer whose cows were poisoned by a DuPont chemical plant
spewing “forever chemicals” into a community’s waterways.

At one point in the film Ruffalo says:

“The system is rigged. They want us to think it will protect us. We protect us. We do.”

Truer words were never spoken.

In a world where corporations hold all the financial power and political sway,
who looks out for the people?

We do. All of us do. All of us must .

The work we are doing, together, is moving the needle toward fewer chemicals in
our food. Greater transparency in our food system. A more just and regenerative
food and farming system.

Sometimes the progress feels frustratingly slow. But the alternative—giving
up—isn’t an option.

We depend on you to help us unrig the system. Please consider making a donation
today.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit
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Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not
tax-deductible)
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Donate $100 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Ronnie’s new book
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Click here for more ways to support our work
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK'DARK WATERS'

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When the cows on Wilbur Tennant’s Parkersburg, West Virginia farm started dying
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the town’s DuPont chemical plant.

The town’s lawyers, politicians, journalists and veterinarians blew him off. But
Tennant finally got the attention of one lawyer, Rob Billot—only because
Billot’s grandmother lived near Parkersburg, and the corporate attorney had fond
memories of visiting her as a child.

“Dark Waters” is based on the true story of how Tennant and Billot took on
DuPont, which was knowingly poisoning the nearly 70,000 people in the
Parkersburg area with cancer-causing “ forever chemicals
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DuPont, founded in 1802 as a gunpowder mill, says [[link removed]] on its website that the company is “using science and innovation to make the
world a safer, healthier and better place to live.”

But “Dark Waters” tells a very different story.

Watch the ‘Dark Waters’ Trailer
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Read the New York Times article that inspired the film
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VIRTUAL SUMMIT'HEALING EARTH'

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Mother Earth—and her inhabitants—are under assault. From plastics. From
pesticides. From synthetic fertilizers
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Is it too late for healing? Not according to the speakers—including OCA’s Ronnie
Cummins—featured in this year’s Healing Earth Summit, March 10 - 16.

Ronnie will join 25 other speakers, including Dr. Joseph Mercola (How to Survive
in the Newest Ingredient in Electronic Soup: 5G), Sally Morrell Fallon (How to
Connect with Nature to Find the Perfect Diet for You) and Joel Salatin (How You
Can Use Regenerative Farming to Restore Life to the Land, Even if You Live in
the City).

Register for the summit
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can all do to help heal our health and our home.

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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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Hidden Emails Reveal Pesticide Conspiracy
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Organic Consumers Association Moves for Summary Judgment in False Advertising
Case Against Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s
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Naomi Klein: Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal Plan Is Our Best Hope
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Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet
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Bayer on the Edge as Jury Awards $265 M to US Peach Farmer Over Illegal Dicamba
Drift
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Latino Groups Vow to Fight for Ban on Pesticide Linked to Children's Health
Problems
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As Settlement Talks Drag On, Another Monsanto Trial Draws Near
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