-
Trudie Barreras signed The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland 2013-10-09 12:29:11 -0700This is one of those issues that may not matter to the “mainstream” now, but we had all better take notice. Kettleman City today, our own home towns tomorrow!
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.
Add signature
-
Trudie Barreras signed If You Don't Speak Up, They Will Speak For You... 2013-02-22 11:33:03 -0800It is important to realize that children, especially, are often brought to this country by parents or others with little or no choice. But if they grow up here, they are as eligible for citizenship as anyone.
16pc
Trudie Barreras's activity stream
Join the internet’s largest community of Latino storytellers and instigators:
sign in with
