David Baker (activist)

David A. Baker is an American activist. A former union organizer, Baker is the founder and director of Community Against Pollution.

David Baker
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActivist

Background

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Baker is from Anniston, Alabama.[1] As children, he and his younger brother Terry would play in ditches and cross the water in the ditches that were used for the Monsanto plant run-off.[citation needed]

In 1970 [2] his brother died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 17. Baker believes that this was caused by PCBs in the environment.[3] Since then he has been instrumental in getting lawyers to represent the people who appear to be the victims of PCB poisoning.[4]

In 1995 while he was working for an environmental company, he accidentally discovered that the presence of PCB's had been covered up for 50 years.[5]

Recent & current

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He is the founder and Executive Director of the organization Community Against Pollution.[6][7]

He was also active in the organisation of a team of workers going to help in the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.[8]

Organization membership

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  • Community Against Pollution (Founder / Director)
  • Environmental Working Group (Board of Directors)
  • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Member)
  • Calhoun County Chapter of the NAACP (Vice-President)[9]

Video

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Awards

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  • EPA 1st Assistant Administrator's Environmental Justice Incentive Award 2003[citation needed]
  • CARAT Team Award[12]

References

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