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‘GREEN PAPER ON ECOLOGY i | 4 | te aa Gome are beginnings of a chatge in life style, others are dir. ¢ actions and disrup- ‘tions that deal with the polluters and the pollution “regulation” agencies themselves. Here are some actions that have been planned or have happened already: 7 victims artificial respiration and oxygen on downtown sidewalks. A mock. ” funderal was held for the Don River in Toronto. an ‘polluters in boxes and buckets and money bags for recycling. - . Berkeley Ecology Action held a mock funeral procession for the internal combustion engine. The engine, which came from a working Rambler, was carried in a casket and buried at the end of the-procession. “Bury the smog-makers - before. they bury us!" © Ct Ea . In Madison, Wisconsin, during hearings held to decide whether DDT should be banned, a group of "DDT Commandoes" invaded the State House. squirting people with water pistols which contained what they said was DDT. <7 . In Boston, during recent air pollution hearings, over one hundred people z marched in a clean air parade, which included balloons, gas masks, and a drum ; and kazoo corps, and went from the State House to the downtown headquarters of Boston Edison. Signs said “Polluters must Pay!", “If you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the pollution!", ete. The purpose of the parade was to award the "First Blue Ribbon Polluter Award” to the electric utility. At their headquarters an elaborate ceremony was held, a citation read, and a vice-president came down to accept the award. He claimed the award was both unfair and unjust, and passed out copies of Boston Edison '. policy on air pollution in embossed folders. The folders were returned to him on the spot for recycling. Guerrilla theatre groups have begun in several areas. Traffic Jam Rescue Squads, clad in white coats and wearing gas masks, circulate through traffic jams, talking to drivers and passing out leaflets about the inadequacies of an automobile-oriented transportation system and the need for cheap and efficient mass transit. Air Pollution Rescue Squads give air pollution - Boston Ecology Action is beginning an Ecology Food Store in which blodegradable . Soap and organic food will be sold in only returnable containers and minimal packaging. The store will be non-profit and run cooperatively. A Household Ecology Counseling Service will operate out of the store, offering free advice on how to reduce personal garbage, decrease water consumption, recycle paper, etc. Lacs In many areas people are beginning to return all bottles and cans, whether returnable or not, to supermarkets. Paper and plastic is also returned, and the store managers are asked to return it all to the manufacturers to be recycled. , In East Boston trucks were being re-routed to the airport through a working class residential area. Neighborhood women sat down tn front of the trucks with their children until the trucks were re-routed out of their neighborhood. Most everyone knows about Peoples’ Park. Sewage and industrial waste, as well | as land amd bay £111, can be returned to This spring, many of the major polluting corporations are holding annual stock- holders' meetings. Stock in now being bought so that demands, guerrilla theatre, etc., can take place during the meetings. —————