Fighting a Toxic Current

Hosted by:

Lisa Loving

Produced by:

KBOO

Program::

Political Perspectives

Air date:

Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:00am to 10:00am

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Political Perspectives with Lisa Loving

What's in the water and in the soil? Who put it there? How can you help make it right? Tune in Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 9am and join the conversation with Lisa Loving. Call in at (503) 231-8187

How can the people force the corporate sector to clean up the Willamette River Superfund Site? Donovan Smith of the Portland Harbor Community Coalition is organizing a special workshop this weekend called: Fighting a Toxic Current. It's a free workshop on how you can help clean up the Willamette River and it's led by this independent group that is organizing to push corporations to pay for the cleanup of their own industrial pollution.

Fighting a Toxic Current is Saturday Aug. 18, from 11am to 2pm at Woodlawn MIC, 1425 NE Dekum St, in Portland.

EVENT INFO:
An 11 mile stretch of the Willamette River from the Broadway Bridge to Sauvie's Island has been pegged with the embarrassing federal label of "Superfund", making it one of the most toxic sites in the country -- a deadly result of our city's industrial legacy.
With about 150 potentially responsible parties on the hook for this billion dollar cleanup to last at least the next 13 years, the question is what does this mean for our MOST-IMPACTED COMMUNITIES (Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, refugees, and houseless folks)?
FREE
LUNCH PROVIDED!

*CHILDCARE and LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION available upon request!*

Please RSVP by emailing Alejandra at [email protected] so we have an accurate estimate of how many attendees to expect.