Yes, We can thank the Center for Health & Environmental Justice, Lois Gibbs and Mike Shade. Their contact info is: CHEJ http://www.chej.org/ Lois Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] and especially Mike Shade [EMAIL PROTECTED] who coordinated the campaign. best Tony
On Dec 13, 2007 11:21 AM, Joey Gates < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > This is great news! > Is there anyone we can email a thanks to? > Joey > > > Tony Del Plato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With your help we did it again! *Only one month after announcing our > Target > victory, we're proud to announce Sears Holdings (Sears and Kmart) has also > committed to phasing out PVC, the poison plastic, in their products and > packaging. *This is a huge victory for CHEJ's PVC Consumer Campaign as > Sears Holdings, the parent of Sears and Kmart, is the nation's sixth > largest > retailer with over $50 billion in sales/year and approximately 3,800 > stores. *Big thanks go out to Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the > Investor Environmental Health Network, and everyone that signed onto the > initial letter to Sears back in March'06 for helping to amke this victory > happen!* > > While several retail outlets are now engaging in PVC phase-out policies as > a > result of all of our hard work, adding Sears and Kmart to the list is > remarkably significant: 3 of America's top 6 retailers are now proactively > > phasing out PVC! > * > Help us continue the incredible momentum in 2008, preventing harm for > everyone involved in PVC's life cycle. Here's how you can help:* > > - Help us leverage these exciting victories by *making a > tax-deductible donation to this winning > campaign. > * > - *Take action > * for a healthy tomorrow. > - *Learn more*about > this major victory. > > Sears' actions will not only help parents looking for safer products but > also fenceline communities fighting PVC's toxic lifecycle from Louisiana > to > China. Edgar Mouton, President of Mossville Environmental Action Now said, > "Money talks and I hope that the vinyl companies polluting my community of > > Mossville, Louisiana are listening to Sears and Kmart, who will stop > selling > vinyl products and using vinyl packaging." Mr. Mouton's neighborhood is > home to no less than 5 vinyl production plants, the largest concentration > in > the United States. > > When you mention Sears to someone, especially at Christmas time, it > elicits > memories of the Sears catologue and toy shopping; Sears holds a place in > America's collective memory. It is fitting, right, and proper then, that > Sears Holdings has been willing not only to recognize the potential > dangers > and harm caused by some of the products it currently sells, but has made > the > right decision to begin ridding its stores of this toxic PVC material. > > We hope you will join us in continuing the momentum in 2008. > > Yours for a healthy toxic-free future, > > Lois Marie Gibbs, Executive Director > Center for Health, Environment and Justice > > -- > > Mike Schade > PVC Campaign Coordinator > Center for Health, Environment and Justice > 9 Murray Street, Floor 3, New York, NY 10007-2223 > Phone: (212) 964-3680 > Fax: (212) 349-1366 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pvcwww.chej.org > > Sign up for the PVC Action Network, and help us protect our families > and communities from dangerous chemicals in consumer products. Click > on "sign up" at www.besafenet.com/pvc > > Thanks everyone > Tony Del Plato > > > -- > May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so > that > we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look > back > on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers! > Albert Einstein > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers! Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
