[Oe List ...] 12/11/08 CNN "Planet in Peril" segment on La Oroya, Peru

[Herman Greene]

Thank you for your work Ellie.  I'll let people know about the program.

 

Herman

 

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Oroya,Peru

 

Hi folks--
Just wanted to alert you to the 12/11/08 CNN "Planet in Peril" program
hosted by Anderson Cooper and narrated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta.  This program
features a segment concerning La Oroya, Peru, a village in the Andes
chronically contaminated by lead and other heavy metal pollutants from the
Doe Run Peru smelter, owned by The Renco Group, Inc., which is owned by
billionaire Ira Rennert, NYC.  97% of the children in Old Town La Oroya are
severely lead poisoned and need medical attention.  The contamination
affects the detrimentally affects the people, but the air, water, soil,
vegetation, animals and aquatic life not only in La Oroya but also in the
Mantaro River Valley, the breadbasket of Peru.  Blacksmith Institute has
named it one of the ten most polluted places in the world. Our presbytery
has a partnership with Peru (Joining Hands), and this has been a focus of
the Environmental Task Force, which I chair and also a larger network
Friends of La Oroyo which I coordinate.  The purpose of Joining Hands is to
address hunger and poverty at the systemic level.  Doe Run Resources, a
sister company of Doe Run Peru, also owned by Renco, owns the largest
smelter in the USA. which is located in Herculaneum, MO (within our
presbytery boundaries).  Over the last 10 years we have been getting
information out about this situation.  The CNN program is another step. =2
0Below is info about the program.  I hope you have the opportunity to view
it and to share this info with others.  Please email/phone re comments,
questions, additional info, etc.  Will be sending a flyer about the info
separately.

Ellie Stock
elliestock at aol.com 


FRIENDS OF LA OROYA INVITE YOU

 

Most scientists and environmental experts agree that indeed planet Earth is
in peril.  On Thursday, December 11, 2008, 8:00 PM (Central)/ 9:00 PM (EST),
CNN program "Planet in Peril", hosted by Anderson Cooper and narrated by Dr.
Sanjay Gupta, will feature a segment on the lead and other heavy metal
contamination by Doe Run Peru in La Oroya, Peru where 97% of the children
are severely lead-poisoned; and the earth, air, water, vegetation, animals,
and aquatic life are being destroyed. People interviewed include:  Fernando
Serrano, St. Louis University School of Public Health, designer and
coordinator of the first independent health/environmental study in La Oroya
and the Mantaro River Valley; and Missouri residents Jack and Leslie Warden
who blew the whistle on contamination in Hercula neum, MO, home of the
largest lead smelter in the US, also owned by Doe Run Resources.  Both Doe
Run Peru and Doe Run Resources are subsidiaries of The Renco Group, Inc.,
based in New York City and owned by billionaire philanthropist Ira Rennert.
In this new era of awareness of caring for the earth, this case study is
symbolic of what is happening not only in mineral rich Peru but of what is
happening across the world, to the detriment of all of its inhabitants.

 

On behalf of Earth, our only home, and La Oroya, you are invited:

 

1) to come to a public gathering, media dialogue, and viewing of the program
to be held in St. Louis at St. Louis University December 11, 7:30PM, (place
to be announced).  Bring a friend.  For more information please contact:
Elinor Stock, Coordinator, Friends of La Oroya, (314) 867-2881;

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2) to host a group or join with others  to view this program and afterwards
to discuss these issues;

            3) to distribute this email and attached flyer to those who
might be interested
            4) to learn more about Friends of La Oroya and the movement to
address this issue in order to bring

                 health and wholeness to La Oroya and the Mantaro River
Valley (www.savelaoroya.org <http://www.savelaoroya.org/> )


 

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