After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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INFORMATION & AGITATION: You can download a transcript of Trade Secrets for free at www.pbs.org/ tradesecrets. Also, producer Jones has posted on this same info-packed website all of the smoking-gun industry documents they dug up, so you can read them in full.
An even larger stash of industry documents is on the web at www.chemicalindustryarchives.org. This gold mine, obtained through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests, lays bare the corporate efforts to conceal life-threatening health risks from workers and consumers.
A rabble-rousing campaign called Coming Clean (www.comeclean.org) is organizing to push for a phase-out of dangerous chemicals and for laws that ensure the public's right to know about the production, use and release of toxics. Both of these fine projects are the work of the Environmental Working Group (1718 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Ste. 600, Washington, DC 20009; www.ewg.org).
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