[CPEO-MEF] Global activists' meeting

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Activists urge cleanup at U.S. bases worldwide

Jerry Needham
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 14, 2006

Five years after Kelly AFB closed its doors, leaving behind years of 
chemical contamination and worried neighbors, local activists met with 
about two dozen counterparts from around the world who face similar 
concerns about U.S. bases on foreign soil.

The politically tinged conference, "Movement-Building Against Military 
Contamination & Militarism," was organized by the Southwest Workers 
Union, which as a group has been perhaps the most persistent and angry 
critic of the Kelly cleanup process.

The conference began Thursday and ends Saturday with a public march to 
the former Kelly main gate, followed by a rally.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA071406.03B.kelly.11dc59c.html
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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