Rated: NR    Runtime: 55 mins.
June 12, 7:15 only.

Benefit for Bay Area media fund

Sponsored by Stop the Spray East Bay & Spray Alert.ORG of SF
Tickets – only $10.00!

Followed by a panel discussion and Q & A with experts on the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM)

Please join us for a special benefit screening of Weapons of Moth Destruction, a recently released political documentary about the beginnings of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) aerial pesticide spray program for the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM).

The LBAM spray program is set to expand to the San Francisco Bay Area later this year and continue for 3-5 years or longer even though more than 600 people reported illnesses after spraying in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties in Fall 2007, and experts say the spray is unsafe, unnecessary, and will not work.

This 55-minute film chronicles the events leading up to the Bay Area spray plan and includes interviews with UC Davis entomologist and invasive species expert Dr. James Carey, UC Santa Cruz Arboretum Executive Director and author of a study of LBAM in New Zealand Dr. Daniel Harder, long-time environmental advocate and founder of Helping our Peninsula’s Environment (H.O.P.E.) David Dilworth, and environmental medicine expert Doris Rapp MD, as well as government officials and community members from the Central Coast.

After the film, a panel of experts, including Dr. Harder and Nan Wishner, City of Albany Integrated Pest Management Task Force Chair, will make brief presentations and bring us up to date on the LBAM program in the Bay Area as well as answering questions from the audience.

Money raised at this event will go toward media efforts to educate the Bay Area about the LBAM program.

About Laura Vitale: After being made ill by one round of LBAM aerial pesticide spraying in November 2007, Vitale decided to take creative action to stop the spraying by making this film documenting LBAM truth vs. LBAM fiction. Five months later, her documentary Weapons of Moth Destruction was released. This is her first film.

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Stop the Spray was founded in fall 2007 to give a voice to those opposing the aerial spraying of pesticides aimed for LBAM in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. The pesticides being used are untested for human exposure and have never before been applied on such a large scale and over human populations. This multimillion-dollar campaign entails monthly aerial pesticide spraying for 3-5 years or until the moth is eradicated, which experts say is impossible.

SIGN THE PETITION at www.stopthespray.ORG <http://www.stopthespray.ORG> .
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