Up for vote in the Agriculture Committee of the CA assembly are 4 bills and one resolution addressing the many problems with this ill-begotten plan to spray whole cities for a moth that does not seem to cause any harm (ask your famer on farmer’s market -even the CA Dept. of Food and Ag admits there has been no crop damage).
One of the bills would actually give us a VOTE on the issue. Needless to say the AG committee serves big AG and will vote these bills down -unless we create massive public pressure tomorrow!

Come to the big show-down in Sacramento:

Wednesday, April 16

10:00 AM take the bus FOR FREE from the Ferry Building (1 Ferry Building on the Embarcadero) in San Francisco
12:30 PM press conference on the West steps of Capitol with Bay Area legislators
1:30 PM Hearing Assembly Ag Committee, Room 4202, Capitol

FREE BUS RIDE< SNACKS & LUNCH

more info http://www.stopthespray.org

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head in your post – where is the PROOF that the plastic encapsulated pesticide did not cause the harm?

The answer is…there is no proof. OEHHA did not speak to one victim, one doctor. Rather, they satisfied themselves with remarking that the sickened residents didn’t format their documents in a good enough manner. Well, for one thing, these people were all ill at the time…and for another, it was only a matter of luck that they managed to find any way to report their illnesses.

I have heard, now, from multiple people, that doctors refused to fill out the official reports and dismissed their pesticide poisoned patients…this is against the law.

If it weren’t for Mike Lynberg, who started taking the reports himself, we’d have almost no documentation. Mike estimates that thousands were sickened by the spray.

What I am trying to get answers to right now is whether the Bay Area cities are physically prepared to deal with a public health crisis. An article in the Sunday SF Chronicle exposed the terrible shape 9-1-1 emergency services are in in the City. How about in Alameda?

If you’d like to see the article I wrote on this, it’s here:
http://www.veganreader.com/2008/04/13/is-sfs-9-1-1-prepared-for-lbam-spray-experts-say-no/

Yet, Kawamura keeps perjuring himself every time he opens his mouth, insisting we’ll all be safe. There are now countless articles and film clips documenting him saying pesticides are safe, which is in complete opposition to the warning labels on them. He needs to be divested of his position and tried for intentionally deceiving the public and causing untold harm.

Thank you, again, so much for writing about this. Keep up the good work.
Mim