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Charlotte Ward signed The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland 2013-10-09 15:19:24 -0700I’m a Christian and a chemist. I know what this stuff can do and I care.
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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Charlotte Ward signed If You Don't Speak Up, They Will Speak For You... 2013-02-22 13:45:01 -0800As a Christian I am appalled at the hate and fear I see expressed in anti-immigrant posturing. The Bible over and over again tells us to treat “sojourners” and “Aliens” as we treat our brothers and sisters, and reminds us that perfect love casts out fear. As john wrote, "Let us love one another, for love is of God.
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