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Our Road: Then & Now -- E33: Ken's 19-Day Fast in Jail: PCB Landfill Abysmal Failure
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Deborah and Ken Ferruccio and Ken Ferruccio에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Deborah and Ken Ferruccio and Ken Ferruccio 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
In this episode, Ken and Deborah take off their gloves as the chemical war of words rages and is playing out in Warren County as a winner-takes-all battle for the PCB environmental justice narrative.
Currently, the Warren County Environmental Action Team — which includes local, state, federal, EPA and academic-affiliated members, seeks to partner with county commissioners to secure EPA Justice40 community grant monies in order “to leverage the PCB environmental justice history and the county’s close relationship with the leadership of the EPA” and to “build an Environmental Justice Center of Excellence,” preferably on the PCB brownfield site, or somewhere else in the county if not there.
In fact, the PCB history has been “leveraged” as a government-sponsored narrative since Ken’s March, 1983, nineteen-day fast in jail when the state-of-the-art EPA-approved PCB landfill was an abysmal failure within months.
Ken’s jailhouse statement: “Why I am in Jail, Refusing to Cooperate with the Government, and Fasting” and his legal “Statement for Defense” detail why he took such drastic measures to call attention to the environmental injustice of a landfill that was a pitiful poisonous mess from day one.
As significant EPA environmental justice grant monies promise to bury the truth of the failed PCB landfill in a feel-good, government-sponsored narrative that threatens to destroy more poor and often minority communities, Ken and Deborah speak out as never before.
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