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12/28/2020 WLRN South Florida: Belle Glade’s Falling ‘Black Snow’ Is An Even Greater Concern As The COVID-19 Pandemic Continues

11/23/20 Spectrum News Orlando: Environmentalists Call for Action on Sugarcane Burning, Effects Could Aggravate COVID-19 Patients
11/20/20 Palm Beach Post: In Muck City, Glades activists argue, Black lives matter
11/15/20 Rachel Carson Council: The Bitter Side of Sugar
11/7/20 Green Party US: Sugarcane Nightmare: Our Children must not live in a Hazard Zone!

8/27/20 – WLRN/NPR: Sugarcane Burning Impacts On Palm Beach County Residents
8/19/20: Grist: Fire Drill ‘They’re killing people by doing this’ — why students at a school 40 miles from Mar-a-Lago can’t go outside

3/28/20 – Bloomberg News: The Burning Problem of America’s Sugar Cane Growers

12/1/19 AP News: Sugar field burning plagues poor Florida towns with soot

11/22/19 Food Tank: https://foodtank.com/news/2019/11/big-sugar-in-florida-faces-lawsuit-for-sugar-field-burning/?fbclid=IwAR2SCAVPYY5coTeNRJZAPq2v3QTj1UT8HlNRxO3azbuODAn6O6ICSb1r-Fc

9/1/19 Naples Daily News: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/2019/09/01/editorial-health-risk-not-smoke-something-we-can-live-without/2146365001/

3/26/19 TheMarjorie.org: Pt.1 https://tinyurl.com/y58hxnhb; Pt. 2 https://tinyurl.com/y3jmw5lb; Pt. 3 https://tinyurl.com/yyjhy2pg

10/18/18 Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20181018/glades-residents-sierra-club-challenge-industry-on-burning-of-sugarcane-fields

7/5/18: Bullsugar.org

https://bullsugar.org/florida_fights_glades_sugarcane_burning/?fbclid=IwAR2jngOmq-_YtOT68vGxs-foR5wP3MVE02AOY5STBTe_5AHDpz1YavOchO8

6/29/18 Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Maxwell-Gubernatorial-candidate-Chris-King-looks-at-sugar-cane-burning_169595613/
6/2/18 Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Maxwell-Homeowners-protest-Big-Sugar-s-burning-of-cane-fields_168740756/

1/17/18 WLRN/NPR: https://www.wlrn.org/post/movement-glades-communities-aims-end-sugarcane-burning#stream/0

Opinions

9/07/20 Florida sugarcane growers live in a parallel universe. Don’t buy in. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/09/07/mitchell-sugarcane-growers-live-parallel-universe-dont-buy-in/5737908002

8/19/20: Stop the burn of pre-harvest sugarcane burning https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2020/08/19/point-of-view-stop-burn-of-pre-harvesting-sugarcane/113348626/

5/12/2020: Free corn doesn’t mitigate the harm from cane burning https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/2020/05/12/letters-editor-may-12-2020/3093672001/?fbclid=IwAR39ZGWCZVm7uVb4gMb2tXF-5ytkhsmSSN20pLfqpduL08CIGMvdhOrMEC0

4/22/2020 Virus underscores need to stop sugar field burning https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/04/22/opinion-virus-underscores-need-stop-sugar-field-burning/3007859001/?fbclid=IwAR2EdR68dK5sPmVm9s4Oq5u8G6JODdwKDxRHjxDodYB8qL30maseDgfJ68M

9/19/19: Stop the burn, Big Sugar https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/letters/fl-op-letters-thursday-gun-rights-restrictions-big-sugar-bernie-20190919-2r562c4jnffihhgvram5zt4ywi-story.html
9/11/19 We want to be free of sticky black smoke and ash from cane burning https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2019/09/11/letter-letters-editor-sept-11-2019/2262763001/

12/13/2018: Burning in the sugar cane fields is dangerous to health https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/12/13/letter-burning-sugar-cane-fields-dangerous-health/2287013002/?fbclid=IwAR00DVrkdoY8gqwG5wP_EQe-Vbwcd_uyP6w0fj8vR2mCQ9-JMPs92y3lpdo

8/26/18: Stop the burning in Glades sugar fields https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/opinion/letters-campaign-posters-litter-serve
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7/13/18: Don’t burn sugar cane, period https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/letters/Sunday-s-letters-Stop-burning-of-sugar-cane-near-the-Everglades_169932366/

4/19/18: Area sugar producers are anything but eco-friendly https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/04/19/letter-area-sugar-producers-anything-but-eco-friendly/523332002/

Press Releases

11/10/20: MUCK CITY CAN’T BREATHE Glades Area Black Lives Matter Organizes to Fight Back

10/1/2020 SMOKE AND MIRRORS FOR THE GLADES Sugarcane field burn season begins today

8/4/20: FDACS SMOKES THE GLADES, AGAIN New sugar field burning rules are a day late and a dollar short http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/08/press-release-fdacs-smokes-glades-again.html

7/30/20: GLADES ACTIVISTS TO COMMISSIONER FRIED: “Stop Sacrificing Black Lives to Appease Big Sugar” http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/07/press-release-commissioner-fried-stop.html

6/4/20: GLADES ACTIVISTS TO COMMISSIONER FRIED: Walk the talk! Repair the injustice of yesterday and today http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/06/press-release-glades-activists-to.html
6/3/20: Stop The Burn Campaign Solidarity with Black Lives Matter: http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/06/stop-burn-campaign-solidarity-with_3.html

4/27/20: 200+ ORGANIZATIONS CALL ON AG COMMISSIONER FRIED TO END PRE-HARVEST SUGAR FIELD BURNING http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/04/press-release-200-organizations-call-on.html

3/25/20: COVID-19 THREAT UNDERSCORES NEED TO END PRE-HARVEST SUGAR FIELD BURNING http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2020/03/press-release-covid-19-threat.html

11/23/19: MUCK CITY AFLAME: Stop the Burn protest highlights failure of FDACS to protect community http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2019/11/muck-city-aflame-stop-burn-protest.html

10/1/19: Public Safety Comes First? Changes to Pre-Harvest Sugar Field Burning Fall Short http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2019/10/public-safety-comes-first-changes-to.html