Politics

... Gibbs says that we can make better safer products, that are less toxic and damaging to the world around us.

David Carpenter is very brief in his remarks.

... are often poor, suffer many of the same hardships of those living in Love Canal. Lois Marie Gibbs notes there is no reason we have to make PVC plastic any more, many of the alternatives are now cheaper and last longer.

Lois Marie Gibbs connects her family's hardship with those living in chemical ally, and how it's impossible to get away from toxins in the home, regardless of whether or not you live near an incinerator or landfill.

She gave a brief introduction to how she got involved with environmental activism with the Love Canal movement.