EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Seven, Number Six September/October 1998 WITNESS FOR PEACE WORKS TO RETRIEVE TOXIC ASH FROM HAITI Eleven members of the ecumenical group, Witness for Peace, in 1998 were the first North American group to visit the 10-year old site of the infamous dumping of Philadelphia's incinerator ash in Gonaives, Haiti. The Haitian Cooperative for the Environment and Alternative Development has been leading the fight to return the waste to Philadelphia. In 1986 Philadelphia's toxic ash was dumped on a wharf in Haiti. Most of the ash sits in a cinder block retaining wall on a hilltop near a spring that local residents rely on for drinking water. The rest is still in an open heap only feet from the ocean. For information on how churches can help correct this injustice, write Robin Hoy, 1048 Worthington Mill Rd., Newtown PA 18940; 215/860-7081; mhoy@neshaminy.k12.pa.us Home     Table of Contents