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We are NOT Going Back

Started by Daren Gamble & Toxic-Free Future

Started by Daren Gamble & Toxic-Free Future

Vinyl chloride is a cancer-causing chemical used to make building materials that’s devastating communities across the country. As the largest home improvement retailer in the world, The Home Depot must be a leader in transitioning away from building products made with vinyl chloride.

My name is Daren Gamble and I’m a lifetime resident of East Palestine, OH. On February 3, 2023, a train carrying vinyl chloride derailed and caught fire less than two miles from my home, leading to an environmental disaster and health crisis for our community and the surrounding area that we are still suffering from today.

I live in my grandfather’s house about a mile from the derailment, a house that has been in our family for generations. After the derailment we were evacuated and still worry whether or not it is safe to live in our home, and whether it’s safe to breathe the air. My neighbors and I are concerned about the long-term health effects from being exposed to this cancer-causing chemical. Family members and neighbors of mine have suffered from nose bleeds and other health problems that only started after the toxic disaster. 

Vinyl chloride is the basic building block for making polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a widely-used plastic that harms health and the environment during production, use, and disposal. Vinyl chloride is also a known human carcinogen associated with liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, and cancers of the blood. 

It’s a nightmare that never ends. As we fight for justice for our community, we want to work to make sure that no other family has to go through what we went through. 

Despite the well-documented harms from vinyl chloride, companies continue to produce the chemical and use it to make PVC pipes, packaging materials, cars, children’s toys, and building materials like wall and floor coverings. 

In fact, more than ten billion pounds of this dangerous chemical are produced in the U.S. every year by giant chemical corporations.

The largest use of PVC is in building materials and the largest retailer of PVC building materials is The Home Depot. PVC has become pervasive in our homes and in packaging. People use products made of or packed in PVC everyday, and what happened in East Palestine is evidence about why we need to take action now. 

In fact, before vinyl chloride derailed near our home, it was on its way to a PVC plastics factory in New Jersey, which turns vinyl chloride into PVC plastic for building materials like flooring that is sold at The Home Depot. Make no mistake: retailers like The Home Depot are profiting off the sale of a plastic that is poisoning communities like mine. Enough is enough!

I have worked in the construction industry for more than 35 years, and I know that there are plenty of alternatives out there to this poison plastic. The Home Depot needs to help lead by both banning the sale of PVC from their shelves and by investing in and transitioning to safer materials, like linoleum flooring.

But I need your help. The Home Depot can take action but they need to hear from all of us. We need to raise our voices together to ensure that what happened in East Palestine, OH doesn’t happen again. 

Will you join me in calling on the Home Depot to lead the industry away from using this dangerous chemical and plastic?

We know change is possible because in recent years, The Home Depot has taken action on other toxic chemicals such as PFAS. In fact, the company has recently made progress in reducing PVC in the packaging it sells. But much more action is needed.

Tell The Home Depot: Build a Safer Future, Ban this Poison Plastic!

Source: change.org

Korla Pandit believed he had it all. A beautiful home, white wife, two children, and a successful career. However, Pandit had a deep dark secret which he was keeping from everyone.

Pandit was known as the pianist “Godfather of Exotica.” Also with his style and flair for clothing, he was considered the ‘Indian Liberace’ of his time. During the 1950s, he had his own show, “Korla Pandit’s Adventures in Music.” On television, he appeared wearing bedazzling jewelry, a silk jacket, and turban. His appearance caught the eye of people of all races and ages.

Unknown to everyone during Pandit’s time, the ‘Indian Liberace’ was putting on one of the greatest performances of his life. One that would not be discovered until after his death, 10/2/1998

Legend has it, Korla was born in New Delhi, India. He was a child prodigy born to a father who was a Brahmin priest and French opera singer mother. He arrived in the United States to receive training at the University of Chicago after spending time in England.

In actuality, Redd was born a light-skinned black man from St. Louis, Missouri.  He was one of seven children born to a father who was a Baptist minister, and mother who was of Creole ancestry. However, his musical capabilities were all true, he was indeed a muscial child prodigy. At another time in Redd’s life, he played Latin tunes under the name “Juan Rolando,” which during this time he passed as being Mexican.

Korla’s career calmed in the 1960s, he began playing at supermarkets and pizza palaces, teaching piano, and speaking as a spiritualist. Redd died on October 2, 1998.

sources:

https://newrepublic.com/article/122797/how-black-man-missouri-transformed-indian-liberace

Korla Pandit (1921-1998) (aka Redd, John Roland, aka Rolando, Juan)

Source: blackthen.com

How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace

Korla Pandit
Background information
Birth name	John Roland Redd
Also known as	Juan Rolando
Born	September 16, 1921 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	October 2, 1998 (aged 77)[a] Petaluma, California
Genres	Exotica
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Piano and organ
Years active	1940–1998

Korla Pandit (September 16, 1921 – October 2, 1998),^[1][2][a] born John Roland Redd, was an American musician, composer, pianist, and organist. After moving to California in the late 1940s and getting involved in show business, Redd became known as “Korla Pandit”, a French-Indian musician from New Delhi, India. However, Redd was actually a light-skinned African-American man from Missouri who passed as Indian. A pathbreaking musical performer in the early days of television, Redd is known for Korla Pandit’s Adventures In Music; the show was the first all-music program on television. He also performed live and on radio and made various film appearances, becoming known as the “Godfather of Exotica“. Redd maintained the Korla Pandit persona—both in public and in private—until the end of his life.

Source: wiki