Friday, September 29
Berea, Kentucky

Organizer/Sponsor:
chemical weapons working group
www.cwwg.org
Elizabeth Crowe

859-986-0868

Event

• A celebration of progress made for safe, nonincineration destruction of chemical weapons
• A discussion on major military and industrial waste transportation, the impacts of waste transportation and unsafe waste disposal methods, and the need for safe, on-site waste treatment. 

Main issues/sites

• Chemical weapons destruction, military waste transportation

The national Environmental Justice For All Tour is coming to Berea!

Friday, September 29, 2006
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Trustees Room, Berea College Seabury Center

9:00 AM — Panel presentation by Environmental Justice For All Tour participants:
“Environmental Justice in the South: A Call to Action”
Speakers will include environmental justice activists, attorneys, community-labor organizers and grassroots air monitoring experts from New Orleans, Texas, Tennessee and elsewhere.

10:00 — Group Dialogue:
“Building a Vision for Environmental Justice in Kentucky”
Invited guests include: Attica Scott, Kentucky Jobs With Justice; Craig Williams, Chemical Weapons Working Group; Grace Lewis, Rubbertown Emergency Action Team; Rev. Louis Coleman, Justice Resource Center; Teri Blanton, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.

11:45 — Bus will prepare for departure to Louisville for additional Tour events!
Hop on the bus to participate in a forum on chemical security, and a toxics right-to-know rally in Louisville! (Note: Bus riders are responsible for carpooling or taking public transportation back home as the Tour will be continuing on to Washington DC).

For more information contact Elizabeth Crowe at (859) 986-0868 or
Sponsored by the Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Berea College Sustainability and Environmental Studies Program, Berea College Black Cultural Center, Eastern Kentucky University Center for Appalachian Studies.

Directions: Take I-75 exit 77 and go east toward Berea. Go straight through the stoplight; turn right into the Seabury Center.

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