By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, October 26 at 6:51 AM
October 26, 2005 -- Health and Environmental Justice (HEJ) will be picketing outside City Hall today at 3:45 to call attention to the city's poor record on the issue of lead poisoning of our city's poorest children. HEJ will also be presenting a progress report to Mayor Francis Slay, grading the city on its promised goals.
The issue of lead in the bloodstreams of St. Louis' impoverished (mostly black) children dates back decades and, over the past 30 years, the city has made a shamefully small amount of progress in correcting the situation.
From an HEJ media alert: "Since the City came under public pressure to overhaul its approach to childhood lead poisoning in 2003, it has been asking its critics for more time to demonstrate that its new plan is protecting children. In the past six months, what lean evidence has been made available indicates that the Mayor has lost sight of the basics. The Mayor has been long on self-congratulatory news conferences but short on evidence of progress. Children are still being poisoned. HEJ is raising public awareness with this Progress Report and inviting the entire region to join us in demanding evidence of progress, not just words – this is the Show Me State after all."
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