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Gianni Ortiz is a Commercial and Residential Realtor, in upstate New York. Among other avocations, she is a journalist who focuses on farm to plate, political, and independent media issues and writes for several magazines on environmental, political and social justice issues. She has been a life long activist for Human and Animal Rights and food quality. She is part of several national and regional grassroots political action groups. Also a strong believer that democracy as a contact sport and that the internet is the last stand for free conversation and truly democratic action and that we need to keep it that way.