The youth-lead cooperative, “Toxic Soil Busters” – a program of the Worcester Roots Project – held a press conference to celebrate the day Former Mayer Tim Murray Declared “Toxic Soil Buster Day”: June 20th and to welcome four new board members to the grassroots Worcester-based non-profit.
Watch the video of the media event!
The organization’s mission is to work with communities facing environmental injustice to build healthy spaces for living, working, and playing. The group uses participatory theater, educational workshops, plants that clean soil, and landscaping techniques to deal with soil lead contamination in yards and common spaces.
The media conference took place yesterday, June 20th at 5:30pm at the Stone Soup Community Resource Center, 4 King St, where the Worcester Roots Project's office is located, and the following people spoke:
- MC: Melanny Dominguez, PR Coordinator, Toxic Soil Buster (and new to Roots board)
- History and accomplishments: Janice Serrano, Fundraising and Workshops Coord., TSB
- Celebrating TSB Day: City Councilor Frederick Rushton
- Welcoming new board members: Monaye Leathers, Roots Board member
The following dedicated Worcester Roots Project volunteers received awards:
Jon Martin
Rebecca Rothberg
And the following members were officially welcomed to the board:
Melanny Dominguez
Rebecca Rothberg
Louise Dwyer
For more information:
www.WorcesterRoots.org ~ (508) 335-7783 ~ info@worcesterroots.org
Past Indymedia Coverage of Toxic Soil Busters:
TSB Day 2006 | TSB Launches Demo Site
Sam Toussaint, Toxic Soil Busters Co-Founder and Co-op Business Coordinator, is interviewed by Ch. 3
Rebecca Rothberg receives a special award for her dedicated work as fundraising coordinator
Jonathan Martin receives a special award for his dedicated work with the co-op
You Tube?!
We shouldn't get in the habit of posting IndyMedia videos to You Tube. At best, we're making money for a giant corporation that invades our privacy and censors in China. In the worse case, they'll get a subpoena and will be forced to give logs showing everyone who saw the video to the government. And, it's all based on evil proprietary technologies with no free equivalent.
Make Internet TV has a lot of different options. Maybe we can convince Mike B to do a workshop on posting video to the Internet before he leaves town.