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March 27, 2001

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In the past 50 years, over 80,000 synthetic chemicals have been created for use in homes, businesses and factories. We have trusted the chemical industry and our government to test the chemicals' effects on health and safety, and to take dangerous ones off the market. That trust has been severely betrayed.

As a recent Bill Moyers PBS special has shown, the chemical industry has been covering up dangerous effects of its products for decades. Workers died, executives lied and millions were exposed to known toxins as a result of the industry's secrecy.

Now the Moyers documentary, "Trade Secrets," has jumpstarted a wave of grassroots activism across the country. A national coalition of concerned citizens, "Coming Clean," hopes to use local, grassroots pressure to make our food, water and communities safer from untested chemicals.

AlterNet has compiled this page of articles, actions and links for anyone interested in becoming part of this movement. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and loved ones, so we can begin discussions in our communities about how to protect ourselves and our children from harmful toxins.

The Coming Clean Campaign (comeclean.org)Find out how you can help the Coming Clean campaign phase out use of dangerous toxins and hold the chemical industry responsible for its misdeeds. Local chapters of the campaign are forming now.

The EWG's Chemical Industry Archives (chemicalindustryarchives.com)The Environmental Working Group has posted 50 years worth of secret chemical industry documents on the Internet, all in a searchable, public archive. An amazing source for original research.

"Trade Secrets" Homepage (pbs.org/tradesecrets)The official homepage of the Bill Moyers special, which first aired on Monday, March 26. Chock full of good information and nicely broken down into four sections: The Program, The Problem, The Evidence and The Options.

Shine the Spotlight on the Chemical Industry!(actforchange.com)Working Assets' e-activism site, ActForChange.com, has begun a campaign to force chemical company executives to reveal the secrets they are withholding from the American public.

The Chemical Industry Response's (abouttradesecrets.org)The American Chemistry Council's response to the accusations in Trade Secrets. It calls the show "inaccurate" and "incomplete" and claims that Moyers did not adhere to proper journalistic standards.

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