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The Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM)
Eradication Program


Not Right

The LBAM Aerial Spray Program and Human Rights
Thomas Kerns, Environment and Human Rights Advisory (EHRA)

Testimony for the CA Assembly Agriculture Committee (4/16/08)
John Russo, Founder StopTheSpray.ORG


Not Safe

The LBAM Aerial Spray Campaign: The Health Hazards of Particles, Toxins, Inflammatory Cascades and Genomic Predisposition
-Dr. Ann Haiden, D.O. (5/15/08)

Health Hazard Alert
-Lawrence Rose M.D., M.P.H., former Senior Public Medical Officer for Cal-OSHA and part of the UCSF Occupational/Environmental Medicine Department

Executive Summary of 643 Health Complaints
-Mike Lynberg and Helping Our Peninsula Environment (01/04/2008)

Letter to Santa Cruz Health Services Agency
-California Alliance to Stop the Spray (12/31/07)

Assemblymember Laird Letter re: health complaints (3/24/2008)

Laird Reaction to State Report on Health Affects from LBAM Spraying (4/11/08)

Testimony to Assembly Agriculture Committee (4/16/08)
-Elisa Song, MD, pediatrician

List of ingredients in pesticide spray
more about the pesticide that was used in 2007 in the forum topic on Checkmate LBAM-F

Particle Pollution Fact Sheet
-American Lung Association

Independent toxicologist testimony in Santa Cruz v. CDFA
-Richard B. Philp, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Western Ontario

Independent toxicologist analysis of pesticide sprayed in fall 2007
-Richard B. Philp, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Western Ontario

Airplane crashes into home, pilot and pets killed
-Spraying for Medfly (2006) executed by Dynamic Aviation, same company also under current contract.

 


Not Necessary

Integrated Pest Management Practices for LBAM: Implications for California
Daniel Harder, Ph.D. & Jeff Rosendale, (3/6/08)
-response (3/20/08)
-response (4/2/08)

Testimony for the CA Assembly Agriculture Committee
-Nan Wishner, Chair IPM Task Force Albany (3/12/08)

Bugging Out – Vintners who see insects as vineyard helpers (SF Chronicle)

 


Not Effective

Testimony for the CA Assembly Agriculture Committee (3/12/08)
-Dr. James Carey, PhD

Testimony for the CA Senate Environmental Quality Committee (4/29/08)
-Derrell Chambers, retired USDA pheromone-pesticide expert

 

Recent flyers and activist tools

*Updated November 2008

STOP THE SPRAY LBAM Q&A, October 2008
Doublesided, halfpage informative flyer with map of expanded eradication zone.

IMPACTS OF AERIAL PESTICIDE SPRAYING
Pamphlet chronicling the aerial spraying for Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) in 2007
Double sided, Legal size.

Petition Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to dismiss Agriculture Secretary Kawamura, who authorized the aerial spraying of thousands of California residents in 2007 and whose Light Brown Apple Moth eradication program continues to threaten public and environmental health.
Download the petition.
Download the cover letter.

 

Former campaign materials

Info and Action Flyer (San Francisco Bay Area)
Double sided, threefold, Stop The Spray banner on the outside -updated 06/16/08

Info and Action Flyer (Monterey Bay Peninsula)
Double sided, threefold, Stop The Spray banner on the outside -updated 06/05/08

Flyer: How CDFA is Distorting the Truth
Dense and information rich. Double sided, threefold, Stop The Spray banner on the outside.

Handouts to promote the petition
Take these along wherever you go! Hand out while waiting for the bus, over the garden fence, during lunch break, at the grocer...

Poster to promote the petition
This poster is a real evergreen. Created in the first hour and still seen around town! Easy to print and copy.

Model Resolution opposing the spray
Approach your city council, school board or union group to pass a resolution in opposition to the spray.

Community Action Toolkit
More tools and tips on the forum.

 

Santa Cruz Downtown Farmer's Market
 

 

StopTheSpray.ORG was founded in the autumn of 2007 to give a voice to those opposing the aerial spraying of pesticides aimed at eradicating the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). The petition hosted by StopTheSpray.ORG unites the voices of thousands of people who oppose enforced aerial pesticide spray programs across the State of California. StopTheSpray.ORG provides online forums to post personal experiences, report adverse reactions and find support. While planes are flying overhead, online communication becomes an essential lifeline for those directly impacted and forced to stay inside. StopTheSpray.ORG believes that information is the basis for empowerment, and aims at creating a communal information database by facilitating exchange and collaboration. StopTheSpray.ORG hosts and nurtures a vibrant online community that is rapidly developing into the groundswell for a state-wide movement to stop aerial spraying of pesticides in California!

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