LBAM Shout-Out "Stop the Spray"

For more information on the Light Brown Apple Moth spray, check out:

www.stopthespray.org
www.lbamspray.com
www.cassonline.org
www.stopthespraymarin.org
www.hopefortruth.com
www.dontspraycalifornia.org

There are meetings and petitions and movements happening in communities all across the Bay Area and Central Coast to stop the spray.

Resolutions have been passed and legislation is pending in your representative bodies from town halls to the California State Legislature to stop the spray.

Check it out. Find out more. Add your voice. Stop the spray.

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video directed by Patrick Wilkinson (www.patrickwilkinsonfilms.com)

words and performance by Xago Juarez of the Oakland-based performance crew headRush (www.headrushcrew.com)

music by Ben Frost

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[davetoporek]

you're over excited, people subconciously dont listen to over excited people, you must be calm and professional if anyone will listen, the more we all freak out about this the more nothing will ever get done. I give up.

[tommyboysailor333]

Praise God! Thanks you all for your prayers to halt this toxic, lethal, unholy aerial spraying of humans as if they were insects...We the People=1, Kawamurasakison=0....hahahaha!

[tommyboysailor333]

Keep praying:It's WORKING! Great news: human spraying halted in Santa Cruz by a judge this week. We need to keep praying until no more threat of human spraying in the Bay Area or anywhere else in this country....

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

[katlarue]

It doesn't matter if it's safe or not.I have lung damage and asthma,hadn't had an attack for three+ years.I became very ill after the spraying, suffering repeated asthma attacks along with flu like symptoms.I left for two months,two weeks at a time,but always becoming ill again upon returning.I had no asthma problems while I was away,even the two weeks I spent in FRESNO with my sister.After two months my symptoms were better but not completely gone.I'm 3rd generation CAian,why is this OK?

[eyes4truth]

Thanks for your work in reducing pesticides. But it therefore seems illogical and hypocritical that you would condone this aerial spray program using untested biochemicals. You say you're worried people will use stronger stuff. Have they so far in all the years the moth has been here? Have they had any problems with the moth that has needed to be addressed? Absolutely not. In your last statement, are you saying that spraying a handful of people is more dangerous than entire urban populations?

[eyes4truth]

I'd also like to address the exposure amount that your repeat. The CDFA itself isn't even sure how high the exposure level is. So how can you be? They are spraying microcapsules that time-release the pesticide into the air continuously for 30-90 days. Jim Warren from USDA stated last October that there will only be around 33 microcapsules per sq. foot. Then CDFA's primary biologist stated in January that testing after the spray showed 809 microcapsules per sq. foot in some places!! Got children?

[eyes4truth]

Leaf-rollers tend to "curl" the leaf around themselves. I'm no insect expert either. But those that are and that aren't on the CDFA payroll fully agree that this moth is not a danger to our area, is already very well established beyond any possible eradiction, and that there are plenty of natural native predators to keep the moth in check, which is why we have seen absolutely no damage from this moth in the many years it's been here. CDFA's campaign is based on fear, not on any sound science.

[eyes4truth]

You're aware it's untested and you're still OK with it being blanketed on children, the elderly and immune deficient? Sorry, but that says a lot about your logic, or lack thereof. Repetitious applications of any substance will have a negative accumulative effect. If Elkhorn Slough is such a poison pit, why don't we see dead birds all the time? Why just the day after the spraying? And no, the tide was fairly relative to the sprayed areas. Global warming? Why don't we see red tide more often then?

[hkibak]

Almost all of our medicines including herbal medicines are poisons. That's why we can "overdose." I have been working 30 years to reduce pesticide use in California. It is people like me got rules against farmworkers even being sprayed by water from a helicopter or a plane. There should be big difference between some small time pest control operator on a schedule and the State of California. But in many people's minds I guess there isn't.

[hkibak]

"Leaf-roller" means the larva gathers leaves around itself for protection and glues them with silk. I'm not an expert on insects, but I have certainly seen pine needles and redwood leaves stuck together with silk by some insect. Are you sure you haven't?