Activist Erin Brockovich leads East Palestine residents in town hall meeting

“Unfortunately, this is not a quick fix,” activist Erin Brockovich said to a packed crowd in an East Palestine, Ohio High School auditorium Friday night. “This is going to be a long game.”

About 2,500 people and 100 reporters attended the town hall meeting with the crowd spilling into the school gymnasium. Brockovich, who became an activist in 1993 battling Pacific Gas & Electric Co. over groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, told the audience to fight back and trust their instincts.

Brockovich and attorneys warned of long-term health and environmental dangers from the chemicals released after the fiery train derailment in East Palestine.

“I can’t tell you how many communities feel that these moments are the biggest gaslight of their life,” Brockovich told the audience.

“I’ve never seen in 30 years a situation like this,” she said, warning residents that what her team was going to present them may scare them. “… I feel your angst, and I feel your frustration. And I want to share something with you; you’re not alone.”

“You want to be heard, but you’re going to be told it’s safe; you’re going to be told not to worry,” she said. “That’s just rubbish because you’re going to worry. Communities want to be seen and heard.”

“These chemicals take time to move in the water. You’re going to need groundwater monitoring. People on well water: You really need to be on alert. They’re going to need to implement soil vapor intrusion modeling. Believe us. It’s coming,” she said.

“You start getting 50 and 100,000 pissed-off moms together — I’m telling you right now: Things change,” she said.

“You have the ability to become — and you will become — your own critical thinker. You will vet information; you will ask questions, you will demand answers. You will listen to that gut and that instinct that will keep you connected as a community,” Brockovich said. “Don’t let what’s happened here divide you.”

A presentation followed Brockovich’s speech by Texas lawyer Mikal Watts, who cited rulings by the Ohio Supreme Court to explain why he could not offer advice on specific cases in a public meeting or stay after the meeting to answer questions.

Watts did, however, say: “I’m begging you — for your own good — go get your blood and urine tested now.”

Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich joins East Palestine residents in town hall meetingEnvironmental advocate Erin Brockovich will attend a town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio Friday evening to talk with …

Common Dreams reported Friday that almost half of U.S. voters surveyed by progressive think tank Data for Progress blame rail company Norfolk Southern for the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio which forced 1,500 residents to evacuate, contaminated soil and water, and has been blamed for causing a number of symptoms even as officials claim air and water monitoring hasn’t shown dangerous levels of pollution.

Forty-nine percent of the 1,243 people surveyed by Data for Progress from February 17-22 said they believed Norfolk Southern was responsible for the crash, including 50% of Democrats, 52% of Independents, and 47% of Republicans.

\u201cThe turnout far exceed expectations. A packed house, a packed overflow location and 5k streaming participants. Just an amazing spirit. \n\nThis town is so inspiring and together I believe they can accomplish anything.\u201d
— Erin Brockovich (@Erin Brockovich) 1677296862

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‘What the hell?’ Morning Joe shames GOP senator over ‘wacko’ social media post



MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) Monday over his response to the shootings of two Democratic state legislators and their spouses.

The Republican senator blamed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for the assassination of former House speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and the wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. Vance Boelter, an apparent religious conservative and Donald Trump supporter, has been accused of the attacks.

The "Morning Joe" host was appalled by Lee's social media post.

"One politician, and I will say a man that I've known and in the past have had a good relationship, and, like, seemed like a soft- spoken man, but somebody that posted this weekend, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, obviously facing strong criticism for social media posts about the Minnesota shooting suspect," Scarborough said.

"Yesterday, Lee posted a picture of the suspect at the door of one of the lawmakers with the caption, 'This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way.' It is a pinned tweet at the top of his page, [and] 25 minutes later, the senator posted another picture of the suspected shooter with the caption, 'Nightmare on Walz Street,' mocking, of course, the situation with the name of the Minnesota governor. This post came hours before Lee tweeted a 'Happy Fathers Day' message."

"'What the hell is Mike Lee doing?'" Scarborough added, quoting conservative journalist Brad Polumbo. "'Has he completely lost it?'"

Lee faced widespread condemnation, and Scarborough added his own by stating that he would have thought the senator was above that sort of social media trolling.

"We're used to wackos on the extremes on both sides posting bizarre things on social media," Scarborough said. "What happens when it's mainstreamed by a senator? Again, a guy that I've known and used to try to be a thoughtful, conservative voice for small-government conservatism.

"When he starts posting things like this, and what is the, what's the United States Senate's answer to that? I only ask that because I can tell you back in my day, I guess in the Stone Age it is now, I mean, the senator on either side would have been roundly condemned by members of his or her own party if they had done this."

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