Here’s an amazing flash-campaign organizing opportunity for a group like Washington Toxics Coalition. It combines a well-known hazard, kids, ignored warnings and immediate threats to health. You don’t get handed mobilizing events like this that often. Kudos to the PI for above-the-fold coverage.
Lead-tainted water in Seattle schools stuns parents
When Kimberly and Corey Brown’s son was a toddler, people would often comment on what a good-natured, perfectly behaved little boy he was.
That changed a couple of months after Forrest Allison-Brown started kindergarten classes at north Seattle’s Alternative Elementary No. 2 three years ago. He began talking back and flying into rages. Teachers said he had difficulty paying attention in class. He complained of headaches and started having sleeping problems.
The fountain in Room 5 at AE2, which Forrest drank from regularly, showed lead levels of 1,600 parts per billion — 80 times over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency limit of 20 parts per billion.