**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.

SCROLL DOWN to sign petition: Tell President Obama to Help Stop Gun Smugglers!

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.