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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Sarah Alexander,
Food & Water Watch [mailto:fwwatch@mail.democracyinaction.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 04, 2009 1:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sstruby@cox.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Farm Foreclosures?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Tell the Senate to Include Farms in the
Foreclosure Relief Legislation<a
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<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Banks that receive additional taxpayer
money should be required to show some flexibility to rework farm loans
during this economic crisis.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XYvhGI50XDaLTM1Dv6yQ31SKcXhLD%2B0%2B"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ask your
Senator to support the Feingold-Gillibrand amendment.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Big
banks that are taking taxpayer money are trying to short-change farmers.
The banks are too big to fail, but they view these farms as too small to
save. <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D%2BuWRMohKJ%2BXkyhV6ad4i1SKcXhLD%2B0%2B">Can
you ask your Senator to support</a><a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ybzLa3JZ5dhwZtCGJnG7hFSKcXhLD%2B0%2B">
the Feingold-Gillibrand amendment to the foreclosure bill so farms can keep
operating?</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Farmers
often risk it all to be able to keep farming. They often have to bet
their farmhouses in order to get the needed credit to plant crops each
spring. Banks are not taking the time to work with farmers who are in
trouble because of the economic crisis, which could drive more farms into
foreclosure. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Tomorrow,
the Senate will debate legislation (the Helping Families Save their Homes
Act of 2009, S.896) to help troubled homeowners restructure their mortgages
to save their homes, but most family farmers who face foreclosures would
not be protected by the proposal because their farmhouses are part of farm
loans and not home mortgages. An amendment offered by Senators Russ
Feingold (D-Wis.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) (Senate Amendment S.A.1032)
would extend similar loan protections to farmers. This common-sense
amendment will help farmers stay in their homes and on their farms.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Can you
contact your Senators TODAY and urge them to support the
Feingold-Gillibrand amendment to the foreclosure bill?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ve0IOAyGZABO63toAGERElSKcXhLD%2B0%2B"
target="_blank"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/591/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27190</span></a>
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<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>
Thanks for taking action,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sarah,
Noelle, Alex and the Food Team<br>
Food & Water Watch<br>
goodfood(at)fwwatch.org</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by
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