Nationally-acclaimed environmental leader Lois Gibbs, Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), will be in North Carolina to discuss the importance of community activism in fighting polluting industry. Lois is known as the "mother of Superfund" for her groundbreaking victory in 1980 relocating 900 families away from the Love Canal, the site of a former toxic chemical waste dump. Families with children living in the Love Canal district experienced birth defects, miscarriages, cancers and health problems.
Please join us for this FREE event!
Sunday, August 19, from 1-4 p.m.
River Landing Inn, 5942 Whitney Road, Graham, NC 27253
(*just across the bridge from Saxapahaw)
Live music by MEBANESVILLE ~ PICNIC pickins!
The event is being sponsored by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) and BE SAFE, NOT SORRY of Alamance County. Leaders from local community-based organizations in Alamance, Orange, Guilford and Granville Counties who will be speaking about their current challenges fighting polluting industries include:
- Martha Hamblin, GASP for Clean Air. Stericycle medical waste incinerator;
- Pat Dodson, Be Safe - Not Sorry. South Atlantic steel galvanizing plant and polluting industry ordnances;
- Nancy Holt, Neighbors Opposing Bio-Sludge (NO-BS). Health and environmental risks of land application of sewage sludge;
- Linda Moore, Watchdogs in the Southeast (WISE). Neighborhoods united to stop an asphalt plant;
- Mike Holland, Coalition for Environmental Responsibility & Education through Synergy (CERES). Protecting & preserving the quality of life in the Haw River Valley.
And more.…for an afternoon of discussion, activism, music, and picnicking at the beautiful River Landing Inn on the Haw River. The Inn will offer rooms at a 10% discount for the event. For more information contact Sue Dayton/BREDL: sdayton@swcp.com.
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