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Meet the Rebels
I enjoyed reading Mimi Towle’s “Going Wild”
editor’s note in the May edition of Marin
Magazine and heartily endorse her suggestion that “any new Marin County resident
who wants to understand what we have here
and why we have it” should be provided
with a copy of the Rebels With a Cause
docu-mentary film. As a longtime advocate on
Marin County land conservation issues (and
a cameo bit player in that film), I’m often
astounded by how many Marinites think
our protected open spaces have “always
been that way.” To the contrary: but for the
citizen efforts depicted in the Rebels film we
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would all be living in a very different place
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indeed. I encourage Marin Magazine to pub-
lish an interview with Nancy Kelly and Kenji
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Yamamoto, the producers of the film.
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DOUG FERGUSON, VIA EMAIL
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Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing Rebels
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With a Cause at the Sausalito library, with
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some of the rebels in attendance. Although I
have lived in Sausalito for over 20 years, I had
no idea about the history of the parks. I just
took them and the agriculture zonings for
granted. Without the accomplishments of the
rebels, Marin would have been an entirely different county. RICK JOHNSON, VIA EMAIL
Eds.: Look for a story on the directors of this film
in an upcoming issue.
Correction
In our Conversation with Albert Straus (July
2017) we incorrectly stated that Albert’s
mother, Ellen Straus, was still alive. She
passed away in 2002. We also gave the wrong
percentage of farms in Marin and Sonoma
counties labeled organic — that number
should be 90 percent.
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