Lawana Bazinet, Citizens Against Toxic Exposure, Pensacola, FLWithout the Bucket Brigade we would still be protesting on the side of the street.We contacted every agency, and not one would help us until the Bucket Brigade came to Pensacola and helped us to take our first air test. With that air test, the agencies started to take us seriously and pay attention.
Desmond D’sa and Stephen Van Wyck, South Durban Community Environmental AllianceThe Bucket samples taken on the 18th and 19th September 2007, after an explosion and fire at the biggest chemical storage facility in South Durban, South Africa revealed that Bromomethane [methyl bromide] was 5100, which is 64 times the upper limit for chronic exposure, and 8 times above the World Health Organization’s standard. The samples also revealed chemicals like benzene and other toxics. Once again the bucket has shown that it has no equal when it comes to providing reliable information, as even the government sample did not reveal the exposure of these poisons.
Suzie Canales, Citizens for Environmental JusticeIn 2003, when Denny Larson and GCM came to our community he provided us the skills and tools we needed to level the playing field. No longer were we victims, at the mercy of industry and the government to provide us with monitoring data, we became an empowered EJ group. When the agencies did nothing, we did it ourselves. We continue to hold industry and the government accountable to EJ communities. Thank you GCM for all you’ve done for Corpus Christi and for communities around the globe.