Tuesday, November 9, Greenville, N. Alston, 21, a senior in home economics, was among over people arrested during the six weeks of demonstrations opposing the Hunt administration decision to use the Warren County site for a PCB hazardous waste landfill.
Alston, who appeared in court for about 90 minutes, said that the charges against most of the demonstrators were being dismiss- ed. She was arrested along with 85 other demonstrators on Oct. The PCB had been illegally dumped on the roadsides in Ferruccio, arrested on four dif- ferent occassions during the pro- tests, said thatthe community of people living near the dump has never accepted the dump and does not accept it now.
There will be ten- sion and conflictuntil the dump is removed More recently, over people took part in yet another protest against the dump Saturday. Under the theme "Hunt's experi- ment has already failed the group took part in a nine mile march from the Warrenton Courthouse to the landfill site. No one was arrested, Ferruccio said. The recent march was organized to protest the fact that , gallons of water has accumulated in the landfill, putting what protestors claim is an extra six million pounds of stress on the Fill's liner.
He further claims that "vast amounts" of more secluded state and federally owned land could have been used for the dump site in- 'stead of picking an area so close to a populated area.
He hopes that the tour will transform the "public awareness that the situation has generated into "political concern" and "political pressure" to move the Warren dump and discourage the creation of others. The man who is wearing the mask may be the guy to finally help you break your local bookie.
