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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 (PB. 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

 

 

 

 

" When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have

peace. "

Jimi Hendrix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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