Cedar & Bonita
Berkeley
CA
Californian’s face a drinking water crisis. Pat Elder’s 20 city California Military Poisons Tour calls attention to the military’s role in contaminating land and water on bases and in nearby communities with PFAS “forever chemicals” linked to chronic and life-threatening illnesses. Former residents of California’s George Air Force Base will tell of the toxic legacy across generations of exposure while serving there. We’ll discuss what California is doing about this crisis and Next Steps for Action. Help us build a movement for human rights, environmental and health justice, and peace for present and future generations.
Speakers are:
Pat Elder, an investigative journalist with Civilian Exposure and Board Member of World BEYOND War.
Patricia Hynes, a retired Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, and Director of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice.
Gar Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist for Project Censored, author, editor, co-founder of Environmentalists Against War and a board member of World BEYOND War.
Lisa McCrea and Denise Torri served at George Air Force Base and Lauren Coletrain who was born there.
Liz Rosenbaum, an organizer of Fountain Valley Clean Water Action Coalition, (link www.fountainvalleycwc.wixsite.com/water ) in Colorado that has one of the largest and most contaminated populations in the country.
Sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom’s Earth Democracy and Disarm/End Wars Committees, BFUU Social Justice Committee, Code Pink, WorldBeyondWar, Veterans For Peace and Civilian Exposure.
Forum details and speaker bios here.
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