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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnityMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnityMaine</a> Stand-Out (near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommonGroundFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonGroundFair</a>)<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopTheGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StopTheGenocide</a>!Saturday, September 21, 2024 11:00 AM - 1:30 PMCorner of Main and School St 118 Main Street Unity, ME, 04988 United States <a href="https://www.mvprights.org/events/unity-stand-out" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mvprights.org/events/unity-stand-out</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineCoalitionForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineCoalitionForPalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelDivestment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IsraelDivestment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeaceProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeaceProtests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Events</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasfireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CeasfireNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GazaSolidarity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalitionForPalestineMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoalitionForPalestineMaine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineVoicesForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineVoicesForPeace</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rafa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rafa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoicesForPeaceMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JewishVoicesForPeaceMaine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JVP</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaxChristiMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxChristiMaine</a>

DoomsdaysCWI wrote about farms like this one when I did a story about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnityMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnityMaine</a>, the home of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommonGroundFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonGroundFair</a> -- a celebration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OrganicFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OrganicFarming</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a>. It makes me so sad to see them having to go out of business because <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineDEP</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPAFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPAFail</a> led to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sludge</a> being marketed as "fertilizer".‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#farmers</a> facing ruin in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a>’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisisMaine faces a crisis from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a>-contaminated produce, which is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoodsby Tom Perkins, 22 Mar 2022 06.05 EDT"Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast. The small organic operation carved out a niche growing heirloom grains, tomatoes, sweet garlic, cantaloupe and other products that were sold to organic food stores or as part of a community-supported agriculture program, where people pay to receive boxes of locally grown produce.Farmers Johanna Davis and Adam Nordell bought Songbird in 2014. By 2021 the young family with their three-year-old son were hitting their stride, Nordell said."But disaster struck in December. The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biosolids</a>', as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a>, irrigation water, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/crops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crops</a>, chickens and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blood</a> were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contaminated</a> with high levels of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicChemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicChemicals</a>."The couple quickly recalled products, alerted customers, suspended their operation and have been left deeply fearful for their financial and physical wellbeing."'This has flipped everything about our lives on its head,' Nordell said. 'We haven’t done a blood test on our kid yet and that’s the most terrifying part. It’s fucking devastating.'"Read more: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InformedConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFOS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodProduction</a>

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