The Peoples' Coalition For Justice And Humanity News Service
VOL 1 EDITION I
Health
By Joi Williams
PCJH Roaming Correspondent
In the summer of 2004, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) began a study called CHEERS in Duval county, Florida. Although the name sounds harmless enough, it actually stood for Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study. The program conducted studies on the effects of pesticides and chemicals such as phthalates, brominated flame retardant, perflourinated compounds in households that had at least one child under the age of 13 months old.
The EPA recruited families into the program by offering $975, a study t-shirt, a framed certificate of appreciation, a calendar, a camcorder, a study news letter and a study bib for the babies if they completed the two year study. Not surprisingly the majority of the families targeted were minorities with a low level of income. The families were told to spray pesticides and use chemicals that the EPA stated to them as not posing any health risk in their homes. A field officer would visit every 3-6 months for two years to collect tests on how the children were doing before and after the use of the pesticides, urine samples and food samples.
Of course the Environmental Protection Agency has known for a long time that pesticides are harmful to the human body. On their website (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/food/pest.htm) they even state that long time exposure to pesticides places people at risk to developmental disorders, birth defects, and neurological problems. Gladly, the program was brought to a halt in November of 2004 due to public outrage. This is just an example of the many experiments that have been conducted and are being conducted on the public. This is also a perfect example of how we should always make ourselves aware because quite frankly the government is not looking out for your best interest, especially is they would harm American children.
Cheers Is No Joke-America Put Our Children In Danger
I'm sure that the EPA would have finished conducting
its CHEERS program for the two-year time line if it hadn't been for the
public speaking out. Those young children may face all kinds of adverse
health problems due to the months of their exposure, but being exposed
to it for years would have been far worse. A lot of people feel
that speaking out on issues that are affecting our world and fellow
beings is just a waste of time, but in this case we see for a fact that
it is not. Let your voice be heard when you see a wrong being
committed. An act as simple as that could even save a life.
This is a press conference with then California Senator Barbara D Boxer and Florida Senator Bill Nelson on the CHEERS program.
Cheers Press Conference 1
Cheers Press Conference 2
Cheers Conference3
Paid With A Price-How the EPA Conducted
Experiments On American Children
By Joi Williams
PCJH Roaming Correspondent
In the summer of 2004, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) began a study called CHEERS in Duval county, Florida. Although the name sounds harmless enough, it actually stood for Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study. The program conducted studies on the effects of pesticides and chemicals such as phthalates, brominated flame retardant, perflourinated compounds in households that had at least one child under the age of 13 months old.
The EPA recruited families into the program by offering $975, a study t-shirt, a framed certificate of appreciation, a calendar, a camcorder, a study news letter and a study bib for the babies if they completed the two year study. Not surprisingly the majority of the families targeted were minorities with a low level of income. The families were told to spray pesticides and use chemicals that the EPA stated to them as not posing any health risk in their homes. A field officer would visit every 3-6 months for two years to collect tests on how the children were doing before and after the use of the pesticides, urine samples and food samples.
Of course the Environmental Protection Agency has known for a long time that pesticides are harmful to the human body. On their website (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/food/pest.htm) they even state that long time exposure to pesticides places people at risk to developmental disorders, birth defects, and neurological problems. Gladly, the program was brought to a halt in November of 2004 due to public outrage. This is just an example of the many experiments that have been conducted and are being conducted on the public. This is also a perfect example of how we should always make ourselves aware because quite frankly the government is not looking out for your best interest, especially is they would harm American children.
Cheers Is No Joke-America Put Our Children In Danger
This is a press conference with then California Senator Barbara D Boxer and Florida Senator Bill Nelson on the CHEERS program.
Cheers Press Conference 1
Cheers Press Conference 2
Cheers Conference3