Dr Nathan Phillips attends the MassInc Climate Change poll results #Hunger4JusticeMA
Channel: FAE - Families Against Enbridge Weymouth
Date: 03/02/2020

In which Dr Nathan Phillips—on hour 117 of hunger strike to get MA Gov. Charlie Baker & EEA Secretary to do their jobs—walks into a room filled w/ food & ppl eating. In which he also has to listen to outright BS coming from EEA Sec while in this room.
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The event is the announcement of results from MassInc Polling Group: "New public opinion research shows climate change rising as a policy priority in Massachusetts." https://www.massincpolling.com/the-topline/2020/1/31/climate

The keynote speaker in this video is Gov Baker's appointed Energy & Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides. EEA Sec's speech is featured in this video, with Dr Nathan Phillips in the frame at the left, 117 HOURS into his hunger strike to get the state of Massachusetts to merely do its job in protecting citizens from toxins in their environment. EEA Sec Theoharides and Gov Baker are NOT doing their job to protect citizens, despite what she says in her speech, with us sitting in the front row with No Compressor stickers on our chests. Unreal.
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Dr Nathan Phillips' Hunger Strike Info Sheet: 
#Hunger4JusticeMA 
WHO:
Dr Nathan Phillips
Twitter: @nathanpboston

WHAT:
On Wednesday, January 29th, I began a hunger strike to call attention to and to demand immediate addressing of serious public health and safety violations occurring at the site of the ill-conceived Weymouth Compressor station. This action uses the hashtag #Hunger4JusticeMA. Since I started, I have restricted myself to water, unsweetened tea, a daily multivitamin, and sea salt. 

WHY:
We have photographic and video proof that improperly-labeled dump trucks have been repeatedly loaded with suspected arsenic- and asbestos-laden coal ash, and left the site in violation of agreed-upon decontamination procedures. This presents an ongoing, unacceptable risk to public health to residents of the Fore River Basin and along roads across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Calls and emails to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from concerned residents have gone unanswered since October, 2019.

THE THREE DEMANDS:
I will cease my hunger strike under three conditions: 
1. All dump trucks leaving the site abide by the decontamination procedures described on page 27 of the Release Abatement Measures Plan of November 25, 2019, which require a decontamination pad/station, and other measures to clean tires and exterior vehicle surfaces of site residue. 
2. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection commences comprehensive testing for asbestos in furnace bricks and in the coal ash matrix, across and throughout the vertical profile of the North Parcel.
3. The Baker Administration commits to a date certain, no later than two weeks from the day I began my strike, for the installation and operation of an air quality monitor, as Governor Baker pledged action on “within a couple of days” on Radio Boston on Thursday, January 23, 2020.

A PERSONAL NOTE:
I acknowledge the privilege I have to undertake this action. Nearly a billion people on earth suffer from food scarcity. Many others struggle over food due to health conditions and the social pressure of unhealthy body image stereotypes. Extended fasting can be dangerous to one’s health. My action constitutes a food trigger warning, & I’m concerned for the welfare of all who struggle. I welcome counsel on how to communicate with sensitivity while my necessary action proceeds. My action is not intended to encourage others to take this action, and it is done in hopes that distress this action may cause to others is seen as necessary to stop a public health emergency affecting thousands of residents in the Fore River Basin and across the region. 

Please support the crucial work of the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS) by visiting nocompressor.com and pledging your support.