| THE TOXIC TRUTH ABOUT OUR ELECTRONICS |
Learn How to Protect Workers,
Communities and the Environment from the
Impacts
of the Global Electronics Industry
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Join EHC’s Amelia Simpson, UCSD professor David Pellow, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition’s founder Ted Smith and student organizer Maureen Cane, and Worksafe's Toxics Chair Mandy Hawes to discuss the environmental and social justice impacts of the electronics industry.
Monday, April 9, 2007
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided.
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
University of California,
San Diego
RSVP Required
Please RSVP online to the event by April 2, 2007, or RSVP by contacting Mariah Burzynski at (858) 534-2490 or info@library.ucsd.edu.
For more information or questions, contact Maureen at 510-507-2875 or mcane@svtc.org. |
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"Challenging the Chip is essential reading for anyone who owns a cell phone or computer. As its vividly written chapters reveal, our digital possessions connect us not only to global information but also to global contamination and injustice. Happily, this book shows us that we can have technology and clean water, too: Electronics sustainability is organic agriculture for iPods."
— Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
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Sales of the book Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry and an author signing will follow the event. EHC's Amelia Simpson is a contributing author of this important research work.
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Amelia Simpson, Director of EHC's Border Environmental Justice Campaign, will talk about:
- maquiladoras in Tijuana, with a focus on the electronics sector
- the film documentary, MAQUILAPOLIS
- "Tours Calafiero" - hear more information about EHC's Tijuana tours that provide a first-hand look at the reality of NAFTA-type trade agreements
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Globalization at the Crossroads Report
EHC's Globalization at the Crossroads documents the impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. A case study of the TV manufacturing industry illustrates how corporate globalization represents economic instability, poverty, worker injustice and environmental injustice for workers and families. EHC calls for NAFTA-style trade agreements to be rejected in favor of fair trade agreements that protect labor rights and the environment, defend democracy and build equality. |
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Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Learn more about one of EHC's long-time environmental justice allies and their efforts to protect human health threatened from the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.
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