Washblog || Are Your Children Playing with Poisoned Toys? Burner Campaign Tests Toys this Weekend

Are Your Children Playing with Poisoned Toys? Burner Campaign Tests Toys this Weekend

By noemie maxwell
Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 10:51:56 AM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Social Justice

Children the blue earth over pay the price for global trade practices that prioritize short-term profit over the health of people, environment, and communities. An exquisitely ironic example of the theft of childhood for the enrichment of the venal, cowardly, and morally sleepy: our babies no longer get the good toys made here in the US by domestically-owned manufacturers who have some stake in their health. Children be damned. Even the most expensive toys like Thomas the Tank Engine are cheapo now, and our children are chewing on stuff that lowers IQ and increases aggressiveness (lead), and causes reproductive abnormalities and allergies (phthalates). I can just imagine some poor little ones in China making those toys. And let's not even get into the subject of the economic impact on our children of all those jobs sent overseas... What's that saying from the Bible? Better to tie a stone around your neck and jump into the sea than to harm a child?

Darcy Burner, candidate for US Congress in the 8th Congressional District, is offering free testing for children's toys this weekend. See below the fold for info on the 6 locations.

PUYALLUP
Sat 12/15
9am-11am
Puyallup Public Library
324 South Meridian

COVINGTON
Sat 12/15
12pm-2pm
Covington City Hall
16720 SE 271st Street

RENTON
Sat 12/15
3pm-5pm
Fairwood Library
17009 140th Avenue SE

MERCER ISLAND
Sat 12/15
6pm-8pm
Island Park Elementary
5437 Island Crest Way

BELLEVUE
Sun 12/16
11am-1pm
Crossroads Bellevue
Community Meeting Room
15600 NE 8th Street

ISSAQUAH
Sun 12/16
2pm-4pm
Issaquah Library
10 West Sunset Way

REDMOND
Sun 12/16
5pm-7pm
Redmond Reg. Library
15810 NE 85th Street

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