A coalition of groups has kept the pressure up, hounding the Agency and the media. One of the leaders of this campaign is the Citizens' Truth Commission , sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. The project is run by Martha Honey and Sanho Tree. Hearings will be held in Los Angeles in March and in Baltimore later in the year. Honey said the commission will also work with journalists to keep the story alive and to explore how the press failed this story in the past.
Honey says the project needs volunteers.
Essential Information , a group founded by Ralph Nader that fights for corporate accountability, also notched up some impressive wins this year. Thanks to a lobbying campaign led by Essential, which has been backed by countries such as Haiti, Mozambique, and South Africa, the World Bank has agreed to rethink its policy of supporting construction of medical waste incinerators in the Third World. Thanks to ETAN, even the State Department has begun to timidly offer support for the Timorese. The bill also gives community groups an unprecedented role in helping develop plans for using all federal transportation money. The Center also helped win a number of victories in attempting to crack down on insurance redlining against poor neighborhoods.