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IN THIS UPDATE:
-Award Winning Author Luis Rodriguez Endorses De Lear Campaign
-Please See New Campaign Website at www.DeLearforCongress.org
-We Want You – Volunteer to Stop the War!
-Press Release: Pentagon Worst Polluter on Planet
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Award Winning Author Luis Rodriguez Endorses De Lear Campaign


Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Dear De Lear Campaign Supporters,

We are honored to receive the endorsement of award winning author and community leader Luis Rodriguez. Internationally known for the memoir of his youth and experiences in a Los Angeles street gang -- “Always Running”. Luis Rodriguez is also the founder of a local cultural landmark in the form of “Tia Chucha, Café Cultural”. This past Saturday saw the San Fernando Greens put on a very successful event at Tia Chucha with Nativo Lopez, Maria Armoudian and many others.

Please check out:

“DE LEAR CAMPAIGN GAINS SIGNIFICANT ENDORSEMENT”
http://valleynews.com/Blog.aspx?contentid=119167

De Lear Endorsement List is Growing!
http://www.delearforcongress.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=83

In your service,

Byron De Lear
Byron@DeLearforCongress.org
www.DeLearforCongress.org
Congressional Campaign in California's 28th District

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Please See New Campaign Website at: www.DeLearforCongress.org

The new campaign website is slowing trickling online piece by piece, bit by bit.
Check out the new look! Thanks to Andy Schmidt for his artistic and web authorship.

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We Want You – Volunteer to Stop the War!


Thanks to all of the volunteers who have signed up to elect Byron to Congress. Thanks to you we are in our third week of field canvassing and phone banking campaigns and the positive feedback we are receiving from the community has been a huge boost.

If you would like to help us send the first Green to Washington D.C. and have a few hours a week to spare, please contact Alex at (310) 650-7481.

Se Habla Espanol!

It's not too late to contribute. We have 10 weeks left until election day. If you are able to volunteer even one day it will make a difference.

With your help we can win.

Sincerely,
Alex Montanez
Deputy Campaign Manager
www.DeLearforCongress.org

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Press Release: Pentagon Worst Polluter on Planet

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Department of Defense: ‘Worst Polluter on Planet’ Cites Green US House Candidate Byron De Lear

California Green Party congressional candidate Byron De Lear takes ‘Military Tour’ with the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in Southern California; Inspects military industry and its disastrous impact on human health, the environment.

• Corporate handled global system of war imminent threat to human survival

• DoD produces more hazardous waste than the five largest US chemical corporations combined

• Los Angeles is home to sixteen military related toxic contaminated sites

• Cancer clusters among workers and residents have been found in surrounding communities linked to the contaminated sites

LOS ANGELES, CA. On June 10th, 2006, the Physicians for Social Responsibility sponsored the first ‘Military Tour’ of defense industry laden Southern California. Facilities toured included a Rocketdyne site in Simi Valley, Boeing, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, North American Aviation and the Navy’s primary west coast weapons depot located at Seal Beach.

“For decades through the 1950’s until the late 1960’s unsuspecting residents have been subjected to deadly toxic poisons and radioactive heavy metals produced by open air testing of military hardware and reckless burning and disposal of reactor waste,” said Byron De Lear, running for the US House seat representing a district in Southern California (www.DeLearforCongress.org).

The Santa Susanna Field Lab operated by Rocketdyne and owned by Boeing Aircraft in affluent West Hills was the first stop on PSR’s Military Tour. “I was shocked to learn that right in my backyard is home to the world’s only uncontained partial nuclear meltdown”, said De Lear. “It’s a ‘Three Mile Island’ right here in LA – and it’s still radioactive,” he declared.

Nuclear expert and specialist, Dan Hirsh tells the story, “They had four reactors that we know of that had serious accidents.” To save money, Rocketdyne, like most other defense contractors, conducted monthly burns in open pits of radioactive and chemical waste affecting not only the four-square mile Santa Susanna site but also throughout the Southland.

Hirsh continues, “Years later, under EPA guidance, measurements were taken at a nearby children’s summer camp and high levels of Strontium 90, Plutonium 238, Tritium, Trichloroethelene (TCE) and various heavy metals were found at the children’s camp obviously having migrated off the Rocketdyne property.”

Residents of the field lab's surrounding communities were never notified of the activities taking place at the open field lab, nor were they ever made aware of the nuclear materials that they were exposed to during spills, accidents or releases.

Boeing has denied any deleterious health effects such as increased cancer rates by workers and residents and yet has settled out-of-court with over 100 neighbors of the testing facility.

Terms of the settlements were not released.

“The Bush administration has sought to minimize the perception of the human costs of its illegal war in Iraq, and now equally directs the Department of Energy to deflect any criticism of lame cleanup attempts of these contaminated sites,” proclaimed US House candidate Byron De Lear. “This shows a complete disregard for the better interests of Americans and speaks of dereliction of duty – the DoD and it coterie of defense contractors must be put in check.”

When queried, a high level EPA official who wishes to remain anonymous stated that the ultimate solution will be the formation of an independent agency to oversee the environmental impact of the Pentagon -- not to continue to have the Pentagon regulate itself.

FOR MORE INFO:
http://www.psrla.org/militarytour.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory_Contamination