Item Information
Title
Flyer, “Stop PCB Dumping in Warren County,” September 1, 1982
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Type
still image
Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/items/show/7419
Text
Emergency support rally stop PCB dumping in Warren County!
Come here Rev. Leon White in the Pit (Great Hall in case of rain) today
Staff photo by Mike Sargent
Demonstrators sit down on Warren County road to keep trucks out of PCB landfill ...dozens were arrested as state began cleanup of contaminated soil
Four years ago, PCBs--a highly toxic chemical--were illegal dumped along the roadsides of 14 N.C. Counties. After four years of indecision and inaction, the state of N.C. Is digging up the contaminated soil and dumping it--literally at gunpoint--in a landfill in Warren County.
Warren County is poor (lowest per capita income in N.C.), mostly black (the highest percentage of black population in N.C.), and has very little political clout (a rural population of only 16-17, 000).
The citizens of Warren County-with tremendous unity of black and white, old and young--have been organizing, researching, and fighting for four years. There are safer ways to deal with the PCBs. And, EPA-approved landfills for toxic waste have proven disastrously unsafe in other parts of the country.
The Warren County citizens are putting themselves on the line-- in the street, in front of the trucks, in jail. They need our support. As Lois Gibbs, Love Canal community leader, said at a Sunday rally—“the only difference between and Warren County is that you have a chance to stop it; For us it was too late.”
RALLY TUESDAY 12 NOON THE PIT
Speakers will include: Citizens of Warren County
UNC students arrested stopping trucks at the dump
Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesperson
Sponsored by THE FEDERATION FOR PROGRESS For information call Ted Johnson at: 967-6828
Endorsed by UNC PIRG (Public Interest Research Group)
Come here Rev. Leon White in the Pit (Great Hall in case of rain) today
Staff photo by Mike Sargent
Demonstrators sit down on Warren County road to keep trucks out of PCB landfill ...dozens were arrested as state began cleanup of contaminated soil
Four years ago, PCBs--a highly toxic chemical--were illegal dumped along the roadsides of 14 N.C. Counties. After four years of indecision and inaction, the state of N.C. Is digging up the contaminated soil and dumping it--literally at gunpoint--in a landfill in Warren County.
Warren County is poor (lowest per capita income in N.C.), mostly black (the highest percentage of black population in N.C.), and has very little political clout (a rural population of only 16-17, 000).
The citizens of Warren County-with tremendous unity of black and white, old and young--have been organizing, researching, and fighting for four years. There are safer ways to deal with the PCBs. And, EPA-approved landfills for toxic waste have proven disastrously unsafe in other parts of the country.
The Warren County citizens are putting themselves on the line-- in the street, in front of the trucks, in jail. They need our support. As Lois Gibbs, Love Canal community leader, said at a Sunday rally—“the only difference between and Warren County is that you have a chance to stop it; For us it was too late.”
RALLY TUESDAY 12 NOON THE PIT
Speakers will include: Citizens of Warren County
UNC students arrested stopping trucks at the dump
Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesperson
Sponsored by THE FEDERATION FOR PROGRESS For information call Ted Johnson at: 967-6828
Endorsed by UNC PIRG (Public Interest Research Group)
Original Format
flyer