Elizabeth Kucinich

On this Eve of Thanksgiving, as families prepare to gather at the sacred hearth in love and celebration, farmers are going bankrupt at record rates. The programs that supported healthy local food have been eliminated. And just last week, as we Americans prepared to give thanks for the harvest, the Environmental Protection Agency approved yet another “forever chemical” pesticide, poisoning the land future generations will depend upon.

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On the Eve of Thanksgiving, A Prayer for the Farmer and a Call to Action This Thanksgiving, let us be grateful to those who grow the food and to the animals and the plants we consume. Please take a moment to support farmers and healthy food policy (petition linked below)

“Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is one of the last great wild places. Spanning nearly 17 million acres in Southeast Alaska, it is the largest national forest in the United States and one of the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforests. It is a sanctuary for grizzlies, wolves and salmon, a carbon-storing powerhouse, and home to communities who depend on the forest for their subsistence ways of life; nature-based tourism; and sustainable fishing.

And yet, despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under threat.

For decades, the logging industry and its political backers have tried to chip away at the Roadless Rule, a policy that protects just over half of the forest from road-building and industrial logging. Their argument? That cutting down these ancient trees is an economic necessity. But that claim crumbles when faced with the facts. The timber industry in the Tongass is not only economically unsustainable, it is a drain on the American taxpayer.”

The Tongass National Forest, a national treasure worth more than timber - The Skagway News. by Hunter H. McIntosh Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is one of the last great wild places. Spanning nearly 17 million acres in Southeast Alaska, it is the largest national forest in the United States and one of the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforests. It is a sanctuary for grizzlie...