2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 28 Jun 2007 17:13:10 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Rialto (CA) Perchlorate cleanup rally
 
Rialto, Colton residents rally against perchlorate


By MASSIEL LADRON DE GUEVARA
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
June 28, 2007

Chants of "si se puede," "it can be done," echoed through the San Bernardino County Auditorium where about 200 Rialto and Colton residents expecting to see a farmworker labor leader gathered to demand those responsible for contaminating the area with perchlorate pay to eradicate the chemical

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez more than four decades ago, was unable to attend, but sent a representative who called for residents to consider boycotting the companies accused by Rialto of polluting the groundwater.

The companies include Goodrich Corp., Black & Decker and Pyro Spectaculars, which produces fireworks.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_perch28.4121321.html

See also http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6247479.
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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