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- Subject: NEWS:Fight to Oust Toxic Dump-Mass.
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- FIGHTING TO OUST TOXIC DUMP
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- Special to Workers World
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- Springfield, Mass.
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- Despite the worst winter storm in almost a century, a crowd
- turned out here Dec. 12 to demand a nuclear-aste dump in the
- Indian Orchard residential neighborhood be closed. Members of the
- Western Massachusetts chapter of the Movement for a Peoples
- Assembly organized the protest.
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- People driving by warmly hailed the demonstration. The Sunday
- Republican newspaper and the local NBC television affiliate ran
- stories covering the action.
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- The toxic dump is operated by Interstate Nuclear Services, a
- commercial laundry that processes clothing contaminated by
- radiation from nuclear power plants and military facilities. It
- is one of over 100 sites statewide that will have to store
- nuclear waste when the regional storage facility in Barnwell,
- S.C., stops accepting out-of-state shipments in 1993.
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- INS company trucks had stored radioactive waste for months at a
- time next to a recreation area. The company now keeps low-level
- radioactive waste in an on-site vault designed for long-term
- storage.
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- Laundry workers, mostly Puerto Rican and Portuguese women, and
- area residents are demanding an investigation, removal of the
- toxic waste dump, and compensation for all injuries, illnesses or
- property damage the company has caused. MPA organizers say the
- next step is to form a "People's Commission of Inquiry."
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