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<p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks to hardworking supporters like you, our idea, <strong><em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.farmland.org/site/R?i=QY9JMA5_-nk-1yayR4SfEw.."><span style="text-decoration: underline;">No
Farms No Food – Saving the Land That Sustains Us</span></a>,</em></strong><em> </em>placed
first in the “Food & Agriculture” ideas category in the Ideas For Change in
America
contest sponsored by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Change.org">Change.org</a>. Since the beginning of the final round our idea has been at the top of the list thanks to our supporters who believe in this cause. But we
aren’t there yet! The final round of
voting still has three days to go and concludes on Friday March 11, 2010 at 11
p.m. ET.</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.farmland.org/site/R?i=_ySvNdEf77hDPQU_TASzOg.."><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Vote for our idea to save the land that sustains us</span></strong></a><strong>!</strong></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Vote for us in the final competition as the top 60 ideas vie to be named one of the “Top 10 Ideas
for Change in America.”
The winning ideas will be presented to the Obama
administration; and will receive the backing of Change.org’s million member
strong communities of supporters to turn the “Top 10 Ideas” into reality. </p>
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<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.farmland.org/site/R?i=ZB2Ya4fDDL5LtitLxRUMZQ.."><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Let's turn the tide
of farmland loss in America</span></a>!</strong></p>
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