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General information

Overview of the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) program

Why is LBAM not an Emergency?

List of Organizations and Local Governments Officially Opposed to LBAM Aerial Spray

 

 


Health and safety

The LBAM Aerial Spray Campaign: The Health Hazards of Particles, Toxins, Inflammatory Cascades and Genomic Predisposition
-Dr. Ann Haiden (5/15/08)

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Letter to USDA (5/13/08)

Independent toxicologist testimony in Santa Cruz v. CDFA

Independent toxicologist analysis of pesticide sprayed in fall 2007

Executive Summary of Health Complaints Report

CASS Letter to Santa Cruz Health Services Agency

List of ingredients in Checkmate LBAM-F

Material Safety Data Sheets on inerts in Checkmate LBAM-F:
-MSDS butylated hydroxytoluene
-MSDS octybenxophenone
-MSDS polyvinyl alcohol

NIOSH Database Files on inerts in Checkmate LBAM-F
-NIOSH butylated hydroxytoluene
-NIOSH benzothiazolin
-NIOSH polyvinyl alcohol

NIOSH Database entry for permethryn

Alameda County Health Officer letter re: LBAM Spray

Santa Cruz County Health Officer letter re: LBAM Spray

Assemblymember Laird Letter re: health complaints

Assemblymember Laird Press Release re: OEHHA “Study” of Health Complaints

link to Tim Wilcox You Tube video interview

Dr. Elisa Song testimony to Assembly Agriculture Committee 4/16/08

Dr. Rose Health Hazard Alert

Health Problems Reported After Aerial Spraying
-San Francisco Chronicle (4/7/08)

Illnesses Blamed on Spraying in Santa Cruz
-San Francisco Chronicle (4/7/08)

Mike Lynberg: Should the state spray urban aeras? Simple reasons to stop the spray
-San Francisco Chronicle (4/16/08)


Science and Agriculture

UC Davis entomologists to USDA: Revisit LBAM Eradication
-James Carey, PhD, Frank Zalom, PhD, and Bruce Hammock, PhD (05/28/08)

Integrated Pest Management Practices for LBAM: Implications for California
Daniel Harder, PhD & Jeff Rosendale, (3/6/08)
-response (3/20/08)
-response (4/2/08)

Testimony for the CA Assembly Agriculture Committee
-Dr. James Carey, PhD (3/12/08)

Testimony for the CA Assembly Agriculture Committee
-Nan Wishner, Chair IPM Task Force Albany (3/12/08)

Testimony for the CA Senate Environmental Quality Committee (4/29/08)
-Derrell Chambers, retired USDA pheromone-pesticide expert

Bugging Out – Vintners who see insects as vineyard helpers (SF Chronicle)

Moth Spraying Could be a PR Nightmare
-San Francisco Chronicle (3/5/08)

Is Apple Moth really a risk? (video)
-CBS5 Investigates (4/16/08)

 


Follow the money/politics

CDFA's New Central Valley Strategy
-Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger
-Press release
Stop The Spray East Bay (6/4/08)

Political Donor’s Moth Connection
-San Francisco Chronicle (3/7/08)

Robert Lieber: Agriculture chief accused of lying about spraying
-Marin Independent Journal (3/9/08)

Robert Lieber: Mothra
-California Progress Report (5/20/08)

 

Flyers and activist tools

Info and Action Flyer (San Francisco Bay Area)
Double sided, threefold, Stop The Spray banner on the outside -updated 06/16/08

What can I do (Alameda County)
updated 06/05/08
What can I do (Contra Costa County)

Handouts to promote the petition
Take these along wherever you go! Hand out while waiting for the bus, over the garden fence, during lunch break, at the grocer...

Model Resolution opposing the spray
Approach e.g. your city council, school board or union group to pass a resolution in opposition to the spray.

Community Action Toolkit
More tools and tips on the forum.

 

 

 

StopTheSpray.ORG was founded in the autumn of 2007 to give a voice to those opposing the aerial spraying of pesticides aimed at eradicating the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). The petition hosted by StopTheSpray.ORG unites the voices of thousands of people who oppose enforced aerial pesticide spray programs across the State of California. StopTheSpray.ORG provides online forums to post personal experiences, report adverse reactions and find support. While planes are flying overhead, online communication becomes an essential lifeline for those directly impacted and forced to stay inside. StopTheSpray.ORG believes that information is the basis for empowerment, and aims at creating a communal information database by facilitating exchange and collaboration. StopTheSpray.ORG hosts and nurtures a vibrant online community that is rapidly developing into the groundswell for a state-wide movement to stop aerial spraying of pesticides in California!

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