Lies and Lead in Water: Poisonous Pipes in Midwest Cities
Date / Time
February 13, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
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Chicago, Flint, East Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee are just a few of the cities across the nation experiencing an ongoing lead crisis. City and government officials often keep the problems under wraps while concerned community members and organizers fight to bring attention to the crisis.
Panelists
Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter
Monica Lewis-Patrick, President and Founder of We the People of Detroit
La’Kisha Girder, Project Manager, Stanhope Consulting
Melissa Mays, Founder of Water You Fight For
Moderated by Toni Anderson, Founding Executive Director & Board President of the Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab
In Laws, Lies, and Lead in Water, Yanna Lambrinidou, Jennifer Chavez, and Paul Schwartz share how official stories about lead in our water often mislead us and place our families at risk.
You can follow up by finding out what your pipes are made of in the Path section of our Get Involved page.
To learn/engage/do more about lead pipes and plumbing, please join the Freshwater Lab and
UIC Social Justice Initiative for
Lies and Lead in Water: Poisonous Pipes in Midwest Cities
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
6-8 p.m.
UIC, Student Center East
Third Floor, Room 302
750 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
(just south of the UIC-Halsted Blue Line stop, exit at Halsted. Metered parking (Halsted and Polk) and a paid lot (enter on Taylor Street) are across from Student Center East.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
RSVP requested: www.liesandlead.eventbrite.com
The panel will focus on the lead pipes crisis in Midwest cities and discuss what we can do in Chicago and regionally to move towards better public health and full lead pipe replacement. We hope to see you there.
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