When the Word is Given

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29. I applaud your efforts

and committment.
I have worked on toxic chemical/human health and environmental issues for a long time. Industry has done a good job of defining those who work against their dangerous projects in a negative light. People have responded to it too. They have tried to make it a class issue - environmentalists are upper class people trying to tell people what to do and take away jobs from the working class and the corporations are trying to make jobs for people - the working people. This is ridiculous but it has sold well.

The truth is that corporations have been free to sicken people without facing liability - ever. Believe me when I say the books have been cooked. (For a good understanding of how this is accomplished I recommend the book "They're Poisoning Us: From the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico" by Arnold Mann. Best investigative book on the subject I have read.) Other than the compensation for property, such as Love Canal, no one is ever held responsible for the damage to human health by toxic chemicals. They are trying to keep it that way.

Keep yelling and don't let them think they are going to get away with it again. Their casulaties used to end up on welfare ir disability. With cutbacks - where are they going to send their victims?