Read about the Ward
Valley victory and Greenaction's ongoing campaigns for environmental
justice.
Read about victories
in 2000 and 2001 for the Toxic Links
Coalition and our Participating Organizations.
Toxic
Links Coalition Participating Organizations
BANWaste
Coalition
Breast Cancer Action
California Communities Against Toxics
California Nurses
Association
Californians for
Pesticide Reform
CalPIRG
Center for Environmental
Health
Center for Race, Poverty, and Environment
Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic
Chemical Impact Project
Chester Street Block Club Association
Clean Water
Action
Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste
Commonweal
Don't
Spray California
East
Bay Pesticide Alert
Endometriosis Association,
San Francisco Bay Area
Greenaction
Impart, Inc.
Marin Breast Cancer Watch
Mindfully.Org
National Peoples Campaign
Northern California Interfaith Council on Environmental
Justice and Work
Nuclear Democracy Network
Older Women's League, SF
Oregon Toxics
Alliance
Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Watch
Physicians for Social
Responsibility
Plutonium Free Future Women's Network
Political Ecology Group, Immigrant and Environment
Campaign
PUEBLO
Silicon Valley Toxics
Coalition
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
West County Toxics Coalition
Women's Cancer Resource
Center
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Other Health and
Environmental Justice Organizations
The Mesothelioma
Information and Resource Group aims to provide comprehensive
information to victims of mesothelioma and their families. Mesothelioma
is a terminal cancer of the lung and abdomen, and it requires
more specialized treatment than other cancers of the lung. Please
visit www.mirg.org for more
information.
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Upcoming
Events
The Next
Toxic Links Coalition Meeting
When: To be announced.
We are hoping to resume meeting
in February 2004.
Where: Greenaction office
One Hallidie Plaza, Suite 760
(right off Powell Street
BART station)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00
If you missed the meeting on
August 12, you can catch up by
reading these meeting notes.
If you need to leave a voicemail message,
please call (415) 248-5010 x 108
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Who
We Are
The Toxic Links Coalition (TLC) is a growing alliance of community
groups, women with cancer and cancer survivors, health care and
environmental justice organizations, silicone survivors, women
with endometriosis, and other reproductive disorders, and concerned
individuals working together to educate our communities about
the links between environmental toxins and the decline in public
health.
Founded in 1994, the Toxic Links Coalition works to stop the
proliferation of chemical, radioactive, and industrial substances
that threaten human health and the health of the planet. The
Toxic Links Coalition believes we all have a right to health
and environmental justice; views cancer and other environmentally
linked diseases and disorders as human rights abuses, not as
individual medical problems; targets companies that perpetrate
irresponsible production, use, and disposal of carcinogenic and
toxic wastes and products; demands accountability from corporate
and agricultural polluters; works against environmental racism,
and recognizes that people of color, immigrants, and workers
bear a disproportionately high toxic burden.
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What
We Do
In August 1995, TLC hosted a Women's Health and the Environment
Public Hearing, followed by a Community Action Conference. A
two-day event with attendance of more than 300, this conference
included speakers from all over the US, workshops, and a march
to the Chevron/Ortho hazardous waste incinerator in Richmond,
a community that has been continually assaulted by noxious emissions.
Thanks to grassroots pressure from the West County Toxics Coalition
and support from TLC, in mid-1997, Chevron was forced to close
its incinerator!
TLC has renamed a public relations gimmick created and
hosted by pharmaceutical and chemical giant, Zeneca, known as
"Breast Cancer Awareness Month" (October), to "Cancer
Industry Awareness Month." TLC educates the public about
companies with questionable ethical and environmental track records
who hold a vested financial interest in maintaining the current
cancer research, treatment, and prevention strategy standards.
TLC organizes the annual Cancer Industry Awareness Tour of San
Francisco, a walking tour and protest through the heart of San
Francisco's Financial District, where tour stops include the
corporate offices of some of the world's worst polluters.
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Cancer Touches All of Us
Since 1971, when President Nixon declared the "War on
Cancer," more than one trillion dollars have been spent
battling cancer. Despite this, overall cancer incidence and mortality
rates in the U.S. have continued to spiral upward. Cancer will
soon become the leading cause of death in our country. Over the
last 20 years, breast cancer alone has claimed more American
lives than the Vietnam and Korean wars, World War I, and World
War II combined. According to the American Cancer Society's 1995
statistics, more than one in three women and nearly one in two
men will face the diagnosis of cancer at some time in their lives.
Thus, in our lifetime, cancer has become an epidemic.
Locally, the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest overall
cancer rates in the country and is reputed to have the highest
breast cancer rate in the world. Among the population of African
American women under age 50 living in San Francisco's Bay View/Hunter's
Point district, breast cancer rates are double that of any other
part of San Francisco.
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The evidence is in. We are losing the war against cancer.
Join
us!
Come to our meetings, held on the second Tuesday of most months
from 6 to 8 PM.
Our next meeting is:
To be announced. We hope to resume
meeting in February, 2004.
Where: Greenaction office
One Hallidie Plaza, Suite 760
(right off Powell Street
BART station)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00
Toxic Links has a new voice mailbox!
phone: (415) 248-5010 x 108
fax: (415) 248-5011
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Photos from
the 8th annual
Cancer Industry Tour
Photo by Diane De Lara
Check
out the photos from this October 30th, 2002 action in downtown
San Francisco by clicking the photo above.
Further Reading
Read "Refineries'
Emissions Not So Fine," by Sam
McManis
(San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 2001), and a response by
Fran Taylor, a supporter of Toxic Links Coalition.
No Nukes! Read "Atomic
Economics" to learn about the
true cost of nuclear power.
Read the Victoria
Declaration at the World Conference
on Breast Cancer 2002 (June 4 - 9) about the Precautionary Principle.
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