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The crops are withered and the land is fallow, but the people who farm California’s Central Valley are not. They fight to survive, and for a very basic human right: access to water.
A new Scientology information center welcomes Tinseltown’s curious—among them Freedom’s newest staff writer. What he found surprised him, and it might surprise you.