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Join The Cancer Industry Tour! Wednesday,
October 3, 2001 Tour
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See Also: 10/19/00 San Francisco Mayoral Proclamation Declares October "Stop Cancer Where it Starts Month" For more information, contact:
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Stop Cancer Where It Starts! The Toxic Links Coalition is hosting the 7th annual Cancer Industry Tour of San Francisco's financial district on Wednesday, October 3, 2001. Please join this important event and help stop cancer where it starts! The Cancer Industry Tour is our response to the industry-financed and developed "Breast Cancer Awareness Month," a public relations scheme of the pharmaceutical industry which profits by first producing many of the toxins implicated in the breast cancer epidemic and then by selling the drugs used to treat the disease. The "message" of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (every October) is to support research and get a mammogram--there is rarely a word about what might be causing breast cancer in more and more and increasingly younger women. The Cancer Industry Tour. on the other hand, is a colorful walking tour and protest through the heart of San Francisco's financial district. We stop at the corporate offices of polluters, government agencies, public relations firms, and the American Cancer Society (complicit in corporate pollution by its silence). This year our tour will focus on the "energy crisis," a new and urgent threat to our health. PG&E: We will start at noon in front of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. at 77 Beale/ Market Street. PG&E has been a major polluter in the Bay Area in Hunters Point, in the Potrero district, in the community of Midway Village built on a PG&E toxic dump, , and they continue to threaten our lives and health with nuclear power plants such as the Diablo Canyon plant. Bechtel: We will then cross the street to visit Bechtel Corporation which has built half of the world's nuclear power plants and stands to gain even more power and profit under Bush's "energy plan." Chevron: From there we will go up Market Street to visit Chevron, a company which has poisoned the community surrounding its plant in Richmond. American Cancer Society: We will pass the offices of the American Cancer Society, the very wealthy and powerful "charity" which turns a blind eye to industrial pollution while urging people to give money for research while misleading us about "progress" made in the "war on cancer." We can remind them that if they were truly about fighting cancer, they would be campaigning for clean and renewable sources of energy and fighting the proliferation of fossil fuel power plants and nuclear plants which promise healthy profits for a few and endanger the health of us all. Solem & Associates: From Chevron we will then visit this PR firm whose clients include PG&E , Bechtel and Chevron. STOP CANCER WHERE IT STARTS! CONFRONT THE CANCER INDUSTRY! |