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Joe Byers signed The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland 2013-10-09 18:00:33 -0700
The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland
**Update via The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Last Friday we submitted over 4,900 signatures and comments to the Department of Toxic Substances Control letting them know we aren't ok with Kettleman City being our state's dumping ground! Thank you to everyone who signed and the folks at Cuéntame for speaking up for what is right. We will keep you posted on the future of the dump's permit to expand by a whopping 50% (it is already the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi River!)
Kettleman City is a rural, majority Latino and farmworker community halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is home to the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi and to shockingly high rates of childhood cancer, birth defects and miscarriages - two facts residents believe to be connected. WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO EXPOSÉ.
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Stop Gun Smuggling To Mexico!
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Over the last 5 years, nearly 60,000 people have lost their lives in Mexico’s drug-related wave of violence. More than 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico in the last three years and submitted for tracing came from the U.S. (Source: ATF) Watch Cuéntame/WOLA's video: U.S. Guns, The Awful, Shocking Truth:
This petition is sponsored by a coalition of organizations, including: WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America), Propuesta Cívica, Cuéntame, Latin America Working Group, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Global Exchange, Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, Violence Policy Center, Alianza Civica and Peace Action West.
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President Obama has the power to help stop gun smugglers. We’re asking him to:
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Enforce the existing ban on the importation of military-style assault weapons (because many of them are later illegally smuggled into Mexico);
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Require gun dealers to report to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) the sale of multiple assault rifles to the same person over a period of five days;
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Strengthen legal enforcement in regions of the U.S. that supply the bulk of the contraband weapons smuggled into Mexico.
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Joe Byers signed [VIDEO] What Steve King Has In Mind When He Hears 'Latino Outreach' 2013-07-29 09:45:57 -0700
[VIDEO] What Steve King Has In Mind When He Hears 'Latino Outreach'
“For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
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