The California Project was funded by the Patagonia Foundation and WILPF US.  Nancy Price, Co-Chair of the Earth Democracy Issues Committee was the coordinator for the California project to bring Pat Elder to visit 20 California and to speak on the threat to public health posed by the Pentagon’s reckless use of carcinogenic and toxic PFAS chemicals, and other chemicals, on military bases across the state. Hundreds of contaminated sites on active and former military bases have been identified not just in California, but throughout the United States.

Did you see the movie Dark Waters? On the California tour, Pat was going to expose the Department of Defense’s contamination of California’s precious fresh water sources through their deadly use of carcinogenic and toxic per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Unfortunately, the pandemic undid many of the plans for public programs. A number of programs did take place and a great deal of media attention was garnered for this important issue which gets little attention.  

There were two parts to the project that were invaluable. The first was the creation of this website:  Military Poisons.  And the second was the interest generated not only by the website and the media attention that Pat got in California, but also by WILPF branches across the country.  

Please reach out to Nancy Price, WILPF US Earth Democracy Chair and California resident to let her know you are interested in PFAS. You can contact her at nancytprice39@gmail.com