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The OTHER Economic Summit, TOES - 90, Houston, July 6 - 8, 1990
Summit on Labor, Toxins, and the Environment
Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union will meet with environmental leaders. Among the topics to be discussed will be his proposed Superfund for Workers designed to protect displaced workers as well as the environment. Areas of common ground include worker safety, the workplace environment, and larger environmental issues associated with jobs and job retention. Toxic and hazardous waste, both nationally and internationally, will be a particular focus of this summit.
Although the chemical industry is highly centralized, chemical industry waste is highly decentralized and has polluted every environmental media and every geographical area. Dumping pesticides in Third World countries and siting hazardous waste facilities in minority and low-income communities demonstrates that socio-economic status and race are pertinent to any environmental critique of the chemical industry. At this summit, organizers, activists and community leaders will look for common solutions that address both local and international problems and encompass both local and global pollution.
Organizers:
- Michael Picker, National Toxics Campaign.
- Rick Abraham, Director, Texans United, Houston, TX.
Speakers:
- Tony Mazzocchi, Secretary-Treasurer, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union.
- Keith Mestrich, Special Assistant to Bob Harbrant, President of the Food and Allied Services Trade Union.
- Pat Bryant, Gulf Coast Tenants Union.
- Bill Carter, National Recycling Coalition.
- Robert Bullard, Dept. of Sociology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA.
- Mary Kelly, Texas Center for Policy Studies, 1800 Guadeloupe, Suite B, Austin, TX 78701.
- Mark Ritchie, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1313 Fifth Street, S.E., Suite 303, Minneapolis, MN 55414, or P.O. Box 80066, Minneapolis, MN 55408; (612) 379 - 5980; fax: (612) 379 - 5982; Econet: iatp@igc.org.
- Jeanine Perrune, International Waste Trade Campaign, and Greenpeace, 1436 U Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009; (202) 462 - 1177; fax: (202) 462 - 4507.
- Karyl Danson, Texas Committee on Occupational Safety and Health.
- O'Seun Ogunseitan*, African Center for Development and Science Information.
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