Corrupt governments depend on an apathetic people. Our own, here in a America, seems to believe that so long as we have our ‘stuff’ from the big box stores, owned by their corporate cronies, and can watch our 4 1/2 hours of television daily, produced by their corporate cronies, we will be satisfied with the quality of our lives, even as planes fly over our homes, turning simple oxygen into a potion for disease and death.
And, when you look around, you see that, with some people, the government has gotten the equation right.
But then there are the tough nuts to crack. The ones who killed their TVs (after all, Internet news is more likely to be real). The ones who avoid the Big Box stores like the plague (after all, supporting China’s economy hasn’t worked out very well for our family). The ones who haven’t forgotten that in September of 2007, the California Department of Food and Agriculture began flying planes over the homes of the people of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties spraying the innocent men, women and children with pesticides and PM10 pollution as they sat quaking in their homes.
No, we have not forgotten the sickness of the people. The deaths of the animals, birds, insects. The mornings without birdsong. No, we have not forgotten the yellow scum on the water.
No, we have not been placated by CDFA’s plan B for spraying our parks and rural lands instead of our towns and cities. No, we still don’t believe pesticides are ‘safe’.
I know I will never forget the conversations I began having last year with the families who were sprayed by our government. I will never forget the faces of the parents whose children nearly died. I will never forget the emotionless sound of Ag Secretary Kawamura droning endlessly about the safety of spraying pesticides on children. The trauma of these things is with me yet.
Tonight I am thinking of the thousands of families who were abused last September by the CDFA. I am hoping that they are recovering, and I want them to know that their sufferings have not been forgotten.
The people who remember are still working to stop the governmental and corporate chemical assaults on humans, wildlife and habitat that are happening every day, across our state. We will not give up.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackwe should not have to spend so much time working AROUND the criminal, corporate-managed politicians. we should also not have to spend huge amounts of time researching every single product we want to buy to be sure that there are no chemicals and gmos in them, and, we should absolutely not have to be sprayed from above with anything at all.
i am NOT voting for any so-called mainstream candidates served up by cnn. i am going to vote for someone who will stop this poisoning and help us, for a change, instead of being another enemy.
Hi Solstice,
It’s so good to hear from you.
Unfortunately, because so many government officials have decided that they work for corporations rather than the American people, I believe that voluntary, public watchdogs are our only real protectors.
I couldn’t agree with you more that it is outrageous that families have been left to find out for themselves what is being done to them, and then to try to defend themselves from compacts between government and corporate perpetrators. Government is supposed to serve and protect us…not take money so that rich CEOs can abuse us.
Just awful.
Thank you for stopping by.
Mim
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