Toxic Tour of Lake
Apopka on Jan. 18, 2013
AmeriCorps volunteers
from the Hope Community Center, graduate students from Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia, from Wheeling, West Virginia, the Director of Volunteers
Exploring Vocation with The Fund for Theological Education, and from Baltimore, the Associate Director of
Notre Dame Mission Volunteers. They
toured Lake Apopka in 3 vans on Friday, Jan 18, 2012, a chilly, windy day.
Former Lake
Apopka farmworkers and community
activists, Linda Lee and Betty Dubose,
accompanied the visitors and shared stories of their experiences,
activities, problems from their years in the fields around Lake Apopka. They answered the visitors’ many questions
and vividly described their former work conditions which helped to draw for us
all a picture of the lake area when it was still farm land.
Listening to the tales
of injustice and seeing the effects of the decades of pesticides on the lake
and for the farmworkers served to provide the visitors with a deeper understanding
of farmworker and environmental realities.
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