Pesticide Action Network North America: Watch Us on Public TV

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Watch Us on Public TV

August 17, 2005

 

On Friday, August 19th, Pesticide Action Network North America will be

featured in a segment on NOW, an award winning television news

magazine hosted by David Brancaccio on the U.S. Public Broadcasting

Service (PBS). Titled " The Perils of Pesticides, " the segment focuses

on the problems of pesticide drift for people living and working in

agricultural areas, and work that PAN and many of our partner groups

and allies are doing to stop pesticide drift.

 

Check your local listings for channels and times. We encourage you to

invite friends and family members who aren't familiar with Pesticide

Action Network to tune in. This is a great opportunity to share your

concern about the dangers of pesticides with your community. Invite

your friends over for a viewing party and help us spread the word!

 

Here is how NOW describes " The Perils of Pesticides " :

 

" As more and more homes are being built close to farmland, some

Americans have found themselves living in what concerned citizens have

described as a " toxic soup " of pesticides. With spraying accidents

that have left children sick and with questions about the long-term

effects of pesticide exposure, some residents believe that regulators

have done too little to protect them. NOW goes on the ground in

California farm country, the most productive agricultural land in the

world, to report on the strict pesticide regulations that officials

there say are sometimes hard to enforce and to examine the efforts of

local communities to protect their own backyards from pesticide drift. "

 

Read more about pesticide drift, PAN and our work to stop pesticide

air pollution at http://www.panna.org/campaigns/drift.html

 

Find out when NOW will be airing on your local PBS station

[http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html ]. If you are in a country where

NOW is not broadcast, in-depth information on the pesticide segment

can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/now/

Contact: PANNA

 

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500, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Phone: (415) 981-1771 Fax: (415)

981-1991 Email: panna Web: http://www.panna.org