Quilts and Community Honored in Blog by Environmental Protection Agency

Friday, January 31, 2014

A new blog by the Environmental Protection

Agency Environmental Justice site gives

tribute and honor to the  former Lake Apopka

farmworkers and the Lake Apopka Farmworker

Memorial Quilt Project. 

This means a great deal to the community, 

as it validates their life experiences, their work, 

their contributions, and the beautiful quilts

that the community made to raise awareness

about their issues.

With this blog, the story of the Lake Apopka

farmworkers is being shared far and wide

across the United States with other

environmental justice communities

and individuals interested in farmworkers

and EJ issues can now learn about what

happened at Lake Apopka and about the

importance of protecting farmworkers from

pesticide exposure.

This is such an important opportunity

to let others know about the consequences

of chronic pesticide exposure and about
empowering a community to create folk art
to tell their storiesto others. 

Check out the beautiful blog created by EPA, 
and take a minute to add your comments
and to thank the EPA.

http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/01/quilting-to-give-a-voice/

We thank the EPA for this honor and this
opportunity, and we hope that you will share
this link with others, so that the story reaches
all parts of the U.S.

We, also, want to thank the Brethern Volunteers
for braving an unseasonably cold and wet Florida
winter to participate in a Lake Apopka Toxic
Tour on January 29th.