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Life on Refinery Row
Residents of Corpus Christi, Texas are afraid of the chemicals around them – and scared to leave home.
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For three generations the Foster family has worked for the petrochemical refineries of Corpus Christi, Texas. They've lived there, too, smack in the middle of Refinery Row – a 15-mile stretch of industrial development that is one of the thickest concentrations of refineries in the nation. Citgo, Valero, and Flint Hills Resources (formerly known as Koch) run two sites apiece, with a gas processing unit, tank farms, and a slew of chemical manufacturers shuffled in between. For three-quarters of a century, this futuristic forest of pipe and steel has not only been the landscape of the Fosters' lives but the source of their livelihood as well, paying off their houses, feeding and clothing their children, financing vacations now and then.
But Jeannine Foster, the family matriarch, worries about the pitfalls of this seemingly symbiotic relationship. Her father and brother were badly injured during the Coastal States explosion in the early sixties, when her father lost much of his hearing and her brother suffered burns on a third of his body, including his face. All three of her children had birth defects, including Hirschsprung disease (a congenital disorder of the colon) and kidney reflux. The family must also contend with their industrial neighbors' noxious odors, blinding lights, and warning whistles that rattle the dishes in their cupboards. "When the whistle blows, you look to see which direction the sock is blowing, and run in the opposite direction," Foster says.
For decades, a sprawling ASARCO/Encyle plant was the anchor of this industrial ecosystem. Foster needed only to step out her front door to see the plant, located two blocks away. Its smokestack – 315 feet of brick and mortar, striped red and white like a barber pole – was visible from her kitchen window. The ASARCO plant began as a high-grade zinc smelting facility in 1941 and, in its heyday, employed nearly 800 workers who oversaw the production of some 100,000 tons of zinc a year. The plant closed for 15 months in 1982, briefly reopened, then closed again in 1985 – only to be bought by a subsidiary called Encycle, which turned the 110-acre site into an industrial waste recycling plant that processed cyanide, lead, and cadmium, among other hazardous materials. Due in part to a disastrous whistleblower report accusing Encycle of myriad illegal practices, the site was shuttered for good in 2002.
Residents of Corpus Christi, Texas are caught in a dilemma – afraid of leaving the only home they've known and scared of the pollution there.
Similar scenarios played out in communities across the nation, with ASARCO racking up billions of dollars in fines for environmental damages. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005, and some 90 communities in 21 states now share a $1.79 billion settlement to clean up their neighborhoods and compensate former workers. That sum might sound impressive, but it represents less than 1 percent of what claimants requested. And it has grown exceedingly difficult for those claimants and other affected citizens to request records and remediation from ASARCO, as Mexican steel giant Grupo México bought the company in 1999.
In December 2010, a US Bankruptcy Court and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) ordered the Corpus Christi plant razed. In April 2011, demolition crews rolled in.
Only 600 feet from the plant sits Dona Park, a residential neighborhood of some 300 homes, including the one owned by the Foster family. For decades, these residents have endured much. Gas explosions shattering their windows. Fine black grit coating their cars. Oil slicking their swimming pools. Their yards have been tested repeatedly for heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, and lead. They've been instructed by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services to abandon their tomato and cucumber plants and to let their tangerines rot on their trees.
Yet the demolition seemed to pose an even greater threat. The US Environmental Protection Agency documented evidence of asbestos throughout the ASARCO/Encycle site, including in the floor coverings, the pipe wraps, the floor tiles, the thermal system insulation, the roofs, even the skin of the smokestack. More worrisome was the 1994 whistleblower report, made public on the EPA's website in late 2010 after former ASARCO workers in El Paso filed a Freedom of Information Act request. In it, former Encycle Operations Manager David Cahill accused higher-ups of instructing workers to dump unrecycled hazardous waste into tanks certified as recycled. He also accused the firm of keeping thousands of hazardous storage units beyond the permitted number (500) and then hiding them during inspections (when they sometimes leaked). Cahill called the site an "OSHA regulation nightmare," noting that Encycle accepted waste from the former Army chemical warfare depot at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which is included on the government's Superfund list of the most polluted sites in the nation.
As a protection measure, demolition crews agreed to erect 10-foot tarps around the site and to cease working whenever northerly winds – that is, wind blowing from the plant toward the neighborhood – exceed 15 mph. (While Corpus winds fluctuate between 10 to 15 mph throughout the year, northerners blow infrequently.) An engineer was charged with overseeing an air monitoring system across the street from the plant to screen for heavy metals. But what everyone in Dona Park wanted to know, and what no one could really tell them, is whether the precautions would be enough.
Such is the irony of the deindustrialization era: Dismantling polluting plants might seem like an environmentalist victory, but the demolition itself can be risky for communities caught in the crosswinds. Moreover, new industrial plants tend to be erected in the ruins of the old one. As Dr. Robert Bullard, the dean of the School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University who is widely known as the father of the environmental justice movement, tells me, "When you have a highly concentrated chemical corridor like Dona Park, you attract similar types of industry – not the headquarters of Starbucks. There is no industry regulation saying this community has had more than its fair share." Indeed, Valero is one of the potential buyers for the site, post-demolition and remediation.
I asked the foreman, "What if it rains?" He said, "Yeah, I wouldn't go fishing down there if I were you."
Moving might seem the obvious solution to an outsider, but not to the people who live here. Housing in Dona Park costs a fraction of what it does in Corpus Christi proper, allowing lower-income families to rent and even own multiple-room homes with garages and yards. There is hardly any traffic, so children can play basketball in the middle of the street. Dona Park is a community that hosts reunions every May; that throws backyard barbecues and Halloween block parties where the whole neighborhood is invited; that boasts a thriving stoop culture. Many families have lived here for decades. They have history here. Roots.
And so, they wrestle with the dilemma faced by fence-line communities around the globe: Should they stay or should they go?
In the summer of 2011, I meet Jeannine Foster's daughter, Tammy, for breakfast at a taqueria on the outskirts of Refinery Row. Nearly all of the patrons are petroleros, refinery workers clad in blue jeans, boots, and bandanas, swapping stories as they dunk hand-rolled tortillas into their huevos rancheros. After maneuvering her mammoth truck into a parking slot, Tammy strolls up to my table. At 38, she is a tall and hefty woman whose face is splotched apple-red. She orders a taco salad but doesn't touch the edible bowl: She has celiac disease, and must follow a gluten-free diet.
When I ask about growing up in Dona Park, she smirks. "When they got home from work, my brothers would get undressed in the front yard because my mom didn't want them bringing anything inside," she says with a salty twang. "And if they worked in the contaminated area, they would get naked in the backyard and Mom would hose them down."
Tammy didn't pay the refineries much mind herself until Javelina started building a gas processing facility a few blocks away when she was in high school. "Suddenly, my bedroom was like daylight twenty-four hours a day, like the sun was rising right in my bedroom. We hung up blackout curtains, but it didn't help. I didn't sleep for a year, so I would fall asleep every day in ag class."
She joined her mom and the neighbors in picketing the plant's construction on weekends, even caravanning to Austin to lobby lawmakers. Then she married an industrial painter whose work whisked them overseas and across the United States. By the time they returned to Texas eight years later, Tammy's mother had bought a new house in the city proper, leaving behind a fully paid-for house in Dona Park.
"My brother was supposed to move in the house, but I said, 'Oh no you're not, not with two little girls. All the damage that's been done to me has already been done,'" she says.
Against her mother's wishes, Tammy and her husband moved back to Dona Park in the summer of 1999, lured by the prospect of free rent. When a northern wind sailed in the following spring, Tammy awoke one morning to a ferocious itch. A rash burned across her body, from her face to her feet. She went in for a round of Benadryl shots, now an annual ritual, and soon became a watchdog of the industry. She joined a local activist group called Citizens for Environmental Justice and became its Dona Park Chair. She started attending meetings, lots of meetings – of the City Council, of the TCEQ, of the Texas EPA. She offered "Toxic Tours" of Refinery Row to the media and to government officials. Above all, she monitored her industrial neighbors and reported anything she perceived as an irregularity, from odors to flare-ups.
"On a good day, I call TCEQ once a day," she says, holding up her cell phone to prove it. "I've already called them twice this morning."
It isn't even noon yet.
I was raised in south-central Corpus, about nine miles from Tammy's home. We graduated from the same high school, two years apart. But while her childhood skyline consisted of petrochemical plants, mine was dotted with palm trees. My family's chief thoroughfares were South Padre Island Drive (a highway lined with chain stores and restaurants that eventually deposits you at the beach) and Ocean Drive (a boulevard dotted with million-dollar mansions and a knock-out view of the Corpus Christi Bay). I was well aware of Refinery Row, however, because three of my uncles used to work there. For 14 years, one worked at ASARCO.
Growing up, I thought Uncle Valentine was a dashing man, always clad in cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, and a giant silver belt buckle that read ELIZONDO, his last name. He has since shaved off his handsome handlebar moustache, but he still drives a mighty big truck. He picks me up one morning after my meeting with Tammy, and we drive down to the old ASARCO site together. Three months into the demolition, colossal warehouses have already been reduced to shards and scree. Here and there, steel rods protrude from the rubble as if waving in surrender. From Upriver Road, there are no tarps in sight, although we can see mist rising from the snow blowers used to stifle dust flow.
"You see that, mija?" Valentine says, pointing at the narrow stairwell snaking up the towering smokestack. Back in the seventies, he and a buddy used to scale it to change the light bulbs on the aircraft warning device. "We'd climb straight up, no safety equipment or nothing. I would be saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers the whole time."
"Why did you do it?"
He blinks at me in surprise and furrows his brow. "We got two and a half times our salary! We had families to feed."
Dismantling the smokestack is expected to be the demolition's most delicate operation. Crews will first remove its asbestos skin using a "wet-scraping" method. Then they will cut down the tower foot by foot with hydraulic shears, starting from the top so that pieces fall inward to the base of the stack. They plan to build an enclosed scaffold to ensure no asbestos flies away, but as Valentine says, "Good luck with that. It was already falling apart back when I used to work there. It was all rusty."
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Valentine was also instructed to dump truckloads of waste into the fields outside the plant, near the ship channel. We drive around to the back of the plant so he can show me where. Overgrown with grass and weeds, the fields are level but raised, like an artificial mesa, within a baseball whack of the channel. "I saw what we were doing and thought, 'This is not a good idea.' There was a slope going right down into the water. I asked the foreman, 'What if it rains?' and he said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't go fishing down there if I were you.'"
The residents of Dona Park received no such warnings, however. Days later, I meet a 48-year-old man who not only used to fish in the ship channel when he was a boy – he used to swim down there.
"We used to go to the end of the plant, where they had a reservoir pumped full of mud that looked like liquid peanut butter, and we would take that and chuck it at each other," says Billy Placker, a lifelong resident of Dona Park. "My daddy [who worked at ASARCO] once took a bunch of pipes from the waste pile and made us a swing set with it. We would go by the grain elevator and shoot rats with BB guns. We could have blown the whole place up!"
A compact man with a full black beard and mound of curly hair, Placker is one of the most vocal critics of the demolition. He is hardly your stereotypical environmentalist: A self-declared "radically saved Christian," he is a construction worker who wears ball caps emblazoned with slogans like GOD IS IN CONTROL. He invites me to his house to chat. A homemade sign planted in his front yard reads "Save The Dona Park Children From Toxic Soil Contamination/Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, Zinc. Hair And Soil Samples Proved It." As we walk through his front gate, a German shepherd hobbles over, lifting its haunches.
"What's wrong with your dog?" I ask.
"We don't know. It started about five months ago."
As if on cue, the dog turns around, revealing a massive growth covering its entire backside, before limping toward a shade tree. We enter Placker's home. Modest on the outside, it has high vaulted ceilings, black granite countertops, and a Jacuzzi inside, plus a pool out back. Placker remodeled it all himself, and beams with pride when I compliment his handiwork.
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I join him and his wife Pat in their living room as they tick off the illnesses in their family. Billy's son has William's Syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder that includes mental disability, heart defects, and elfin facial features. Two of his grandchildren – who live next door – have asthma and attention deficit disorder; another has a foot deformity. Turning around on the couch, Pat points at nearby houses through the window. In that house, a lady has cancer. Next door, same thing. Across the street lives a little boy who, she says, has no ears.
Like most of their neighbors, the Plackers are deeply conflicted about what to do. They love Dona Park. Billy's parents, children, and grandchildren all live within a three-block radius, as do his childhood friends. They have built their dream house here. But when they step out the door, they can see dust clouds rising from the demolition. They can hear bulldozers gnashing their teeth. The last time a northern wind swirled through, Billy fell into a panic.
"I called the County Commissioner, I called the news teams, and then I went over to the front gate where there was a security guard. I said, 'I'm from the neighborhood and that wind is blowing at 30 miles per hour so you have to stop this.' And he said, 'Let me tell you, I don't care what you or TCEQ says about this, this is now the property of federal bankruptcy court, and they say we can demolish it and we will.'"
Billy's black eyes grow round and serious. "Well let me tell you, the Good Lord held me back from jumping that fence and killing him then and there. And the Good Lord didn't allow me to remember what he looked like either, because if I had seen him at a 7-11 later that day, I might have killed him there too."
As the state's chief environmental agency, the TCEQ was granted nearly $1 billion by the Texas legislature to protect the state's air, water, and soil during the 2009-2010 biennium. Yet it is scorned by environmental groups that say the agency is too close to the industries it regulates. The governor of Texas – who has been either George W. Bush or Rick Perry since 1995 – appoints the TCEQ's top managers, who in the past have included lobbyists for the Texas Chemical Council, former executives of Monsanto, and lawyers for the oil industry. The current chairman, Dr. Bryan Shaw, is a self-declared climate change skeptic who has repeatedly battled regulatory efforts by the EPA. This is one reason why Dona Park residents hiss when you say the agency's name.
Take Consuelo and Hipolito Gonzalez. They have lived in Dona Park longer than almost anybody, more than 40 years. Their home is one of the nicest in the neighborhood, with a giant pine tree in the front yard and an American flag rippling from a pole. The afternoon I visit in the summer of 2011, a pack of Chihuahuas prance about the hardwood floor while Consuelo and Hipolito rest in twin leather chairs. Though gracious and kind, they are visibly fatigued: Two days prior, Hipolito had gone into cardiac arrest – for the third time – and he had just returned home from the hospital.
They moved to Dona Park as newlyweds in 1970, months after Hurricane Celia blew the roof off their first apartment and soaked their belongings. Dona Park was a predominantly white community back then; they were the first Latino family on their block. Hipolito, a Vietnam veteran, repeatedly applied for jobs at ASARCO, but always got turned down. He found work at other plants, though, including a job loading benzene – a known carcinogen – on and off trailers. While they feel grateful to their industrial neighbors for providing them a lifetime of financial security, they too wonder about the personal cost. Their children were plagued with allergies growing up, and often had bloody noses. Consuelo has had cysts in her breast, a tumor in her pituitary gland, and liver problems; Hipolito has suffered from prostate cancer and congestive heart failure. They have tried to be as cooperative with the TCEQ as possible, submitting to numerous studies over the years. "We have given them blood. We have given them pee. We have given them soil. And then they come back and want to do it all over again," Consuelo says.
They have already resolved to leave Dona Park. The question is how. Selling their home is no longer an option: Its value has slipped from $89,000 to $55,000 in recent years, Consuelo says. Moreover, they don't want to perpetuate the cycle. "You come here because this is what you can afford, and when you leave, your homes are sold to people who don't know what is happening here. Now people are selling their property to illegal immigrants who don't know what their children are facing."
So no, the Gonzalez family doesn't want to sell their home. They want a buyout. That is not without precedence: The federal government recently bought the town of Pincher, Oklahoma, once the site of an ASARCO-owned mine, at a cost of $55 million. But for the most part the government only funds buyouts of homes built directly over hazardous waste sites, such as New York's Love Canal. An industry buyout is much more likely. Closer to downtown Corpus Christi, the bulk of the residential Oak Park Triangle neighborhood was bought out in the late nineties, due to its close proximity to Citgo.
Tammy Foster acknowledges that she has been offered a buyout in the past year – from whom, she won't say. She says she will not accept it until the rest of her neighbors are offered one, too.
I returned to Dona Park over Easter weekend of 2012, about nine months after my last visit. The demolition crews have made remarkable progress: Nearly the entire site has been razed, save for a couple of administrative buildings and a skeletal warehouse. Even the ASARCO smokestack – for years, the landmark of Dona Park – has been toppled. Black netting shrouds the chain-link and barbed-wire fencing. Off in the distance, I can see the ship channel dotted with barges, and beyond that, slowly whirling wind turbines.
It has been a rough year for residents. The Fosters, Plackers, and Gonzalezes are full of stories about distressing sights and sounds from the demolition site. Consuelo Gonzalez shows me the fine black grit coating her plants, birdbath, hurricane shutters, and wind chimes. "We've been through a lot," she says. "The wind blew really hard some days, and they polluted us again and again."
According to a TCEQ Dona Park Neighborhood Ambient Air Monitoring Program report posted online, arsenic levels of 35.2459 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3), cadmium of 0.5993 ug/m3, chromium of 12.0219 ug/m3, and lead of 18.1239 ug/m3 were recorded just a few blocks away from the Gonzalez home on December 7, 2011. Those readings exceed the TCEQ's "action levels" 350-fold for arsenic, 6-fold for cadmium, 3.3-fold for chromium, and 121-fold for lead. In response, the TCEQ halted the demolition until enhanced emission controls were implemented, and contends that action levels have not been exceeded since December 16. This did little to assuage Consuelo's fears.
"I want to get out of Dodge," she says. "I am tired of living in the slums. I deserve better." She and Hipolito have a new house picked out in Cypress, Texas, near where their daughter lives, but Hipolito started having doubts a few weeks ago, when Consuelo had a health scare requiring hospitalization.
"I came home and called my neighbor of 40 years and she came over right away and helped me. I really felt security in that," he says. Scooping up a Chihuahua, he looks at his wife and then at me. "What will I do if we move somewhere new?"
Corpus Christi native Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines and Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana.
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In 2010, an ex-worker group, the sierra club and other residents sent a FOIA request to the EPA. Buried in the middle of one of many unsearchable/unindexed huge files was the Encycle supervisor whisleblower report. It remained undiscovered until a science teacher - the same person who uncovered the 1998 epa doj federal asarco 73 page confidential for settlement only document (nytimes 10/06)—- found that whistleblower document. As a result, she sent in a new epa foia request for all the documents that the epa had on asarco in the NEIC Colorado archives, including confidential documents withheld since 1998. The epa has posted the resulting documents in the epa region6 encycle website and some in the epa el paso site. See http://epgtlo.blogspot.com for additional data. Asarco toxins went thru Encycle and then to El Paso & Mt.
By Heather on Mon, June 11, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Ms. Elizondo Griest, Carlos Rodriguez from El Paso Texas. We, the exasarcoworkers.com, visited Dona Park. Your story could very well be that of El Paso. El Paso just happens to be more of a city set where the neighborhoods are well around 5 miles away, but still the ill effects can be seen and have been recorded. A elementary school, Mesita, had an outbreak of MS. Up North of the plants is an affluent community whose only complain was when the winds would blow in their direction always calling into the plant and the plant would shut production. Asarco's mode of operations was always if the wind was blowing towards our second ward or into Mexicso produts would be cranked up polluting our communities to the south, south east. The story is the same in that the agencies who were meant to protect the environment are instead protecting the corportions. Asarco in Hayden Arizona is probably a carbon copy of the Dona Park. The community is right next door to the plant. Conveying belts run directly above the edge of the community. Our government is the fault not Asarco. As a doctor once said, "it is bad enough that these companies pollute but instead those who allow them"
Great article and we are in hopes that one day people will mean more than profits.
By Carlos Rodriguez on Sun, June 10, 2012 at 3:19 pm
What a great read! Im definitely passing this on.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
ICE Platform: Union Democracy
We need a union that is structured to insure that no matter who is elected to leadership they will be accountable to those of us who are working in the schools. An active, well-informed and honestly represented membership is the necessary backbone of a union that is capable of standing up to the attacks on teachers, children and the public schools.
Instead, what we have is a union that has gotten progressively weaker, a teaching staff that is defenseless, demoralized, disengaged from unionism and resigned to tolerate all manner of abuse, and now fears that any change will be for the worse. A large part of the problem is the fact that our union is led by people who are removed from the reality of our schools.
Since its inception in the early 1960s our union has been dominated by one group, Unity Caucus which constantly adjusts its methods to insure that it monopolizes decision-making. President Randi Weingarten knows how to portray herself as a concerned and responsible leader at union meetings and in the pages of the NY Teacher, but her number one concern is to manage the membership rather than advocate for us and represent our interests.
The three levels of decision-making in our union are the ADCOM (citywide officers), the executive board, and the delegate assembly. All three are tightly controlled by the overwhelming presence of Unity Caucus members, who rubber-stamp all of President Weingarten's policies, even when they themselves disagree.
In order to make each one of these bodies more representative and democratic we propose the following:
1. Divisional vice-presidents (high school, middle school, etc.) should be elected by those they serve, members in their respective divisions.
2. The number of at-large members of the executive board should be reduced and a method of proportional representation should be used to elect them, with seats awarded to caucuses on the basis of their proportion of the vote.
3. The number of retiree members of the delegate assembly should be reduced and their election should also be on the basis of proportional representation.
4. District representatives (a full time UFT position to support the chapter leaders and members in a district) should be elected.
5. Every issue of the NY Teacher should be opened to opposing viewpoints, with space available for the printing of statements both for and against ratification of proposed contracts.
6. All caucuses (political parties) who have met requirements to run in an election should be able to mail at least one piece of literature to all the members at union expense during election time. All caucuses should have access to teacher mailboxes for distribution of union-related literature and each caucus should be able to email campaign literature during the election. (Rejected by Weingarten at the Jan. 9, 2007 Ex. Bd. meeting, ICE will continue the fight for this right throughout the elections and beyond.)
7. There should be an open microphone at all union meetings.
8. Retirees should not vote for UFT officers, who are responsible for negotiating the contract for active members. But they should vote for the three teacher members of the Teachers Retirement System Board, something they presently cannot do.
Most important for democracy is an underpinning of active school chapters where meetings are held monthly and school issues are discussed openly. Chapter leaders are there to protect the interests of the members with respect to the administration and also to see that the flow of information between the chapters and the various levels of leadership of the union travels on a two-way street. This means that chapter leaders must do everything possible to encourage attendance at meetings and to carry out the wishes of the members, both within the school and as a representative to other union bodies. It is the concerns of chapter members, who are the best informed about the issues, that should be driving union policy.
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I wouldn't want you nuts to have my address, and I wouldn't want to listen to you for ever at every UFT function I attend. It's enough I have to deal with your nut in my building. Everything you put in your platform has to do with the Randi and Unity. Did you forget that we are fighting the DOE? Bunch of losers you are!
- Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:44:00 AM
- JustdaTruth said...
Read this post and weap Unity. If you really see yourselves as trade unionists you will see the importance of this issue in relation to keeping this Union strong over time. Personally I don't care about 2 pensions, $200,000 salaries, 2 conventions, 2 Suits etc. My question is why would anybody be against true Union Democracy? Many people could answer that one. Can the UFT as it presently run stand up to scrutiny in that area? I think not. I know many members are resigned to thinking that the current Union Leadership is unbeatable and if you can't beat em join em. Not me. To the degree that this Union resists becoming as democratic as possible, it will be weakened. You'll never get the best and brightest running things if things stay that way. I say UFT leadership be courageous and change. Dictatorships whether they are benevolent or not will not last. We deserve the most democratic union possible and that's the truth and you know it.
- Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:59:00 PM
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- Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:49:00 PM
Let's see Unity actually fight the DOE instead of being partners with them.
When Randi is gone soon what will you say then?
Your very presence at this blog shows that you listen to us nuts all the time. And it makes you so agitated. You don't seem able to control yourself. Take a sedative. Poor guy.
- Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:48:00 PM
Great platform on democracy within the union ICE. I wouldn't change a thing.
- Monday, January 15, 2007 10:40:00 AM
Where are the Unity people to tell us about how democracy isn't that important?
- Monday, January 15, 2007 10:41:00 AM
Isn't this all Norm's mantra? I've read your postings regularly but I get very discouraged when I read Norm's comments. How much say does he have with you guys?
- Monday, January 15, 2007 8:47:00 PM
This all sound wonderful. But you guys have proudly declared that you WILL NOT win and DON'T WANT to win. So your claim is simply to oppose? What does that mean? Why should I vote for you?
- Monday, January 15, 2007 9:46:00 PM
Norm has as much say as anyone else in ICE. The group works on consensus. Come to a meeting to see it function.
ICE knows the odds are tough as Randi is running UFT commercials now. However, the platform on democracy speaks for itself. it's good, positive stuff, not a bunch of complaints.
- Monday, January 15, 2007 9:50:00 PM
Unity people would you please comment on the platform and steer away for a change from the personal attacks on Norm or anyone else.
- Monday, January 15, 2007 9:56:00 PM
This is a really good platform on democracy. Anyone would be proud to run on it. ICE is not complaining; they are advocating for something that is very positive.
- Monday, January 15, 2007 10:05:00 PM
Please Unity people tell us what's wrong with this platform? We're waiting.
- Monday, January 15, 2007 10:09:00 PM
Norm who? We keep him in a box with a muzzle and only turn him loose when we are surrounded by Unity.
- Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:41:00 AM
If "Norm has as much say as anyone else in ICE" than why does he have ICE candidates for officers on his blog before ICE does? Can I just post my own candidates and claim them to be ICE?
- Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:43:00 PM
ICE has been working on a leaflet. Norm just put it up before Jeff did here. No big deal.
- Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44:00 PM
You should post your own candidates and run them as ICE. Better yet, run them as New Action. Or call them New InAction. Or "Unity New Action Caucus" (UNAC). Say it real fast 10 times.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:40:00 AM
How can I be listed as a candidate? Do I have to be in a school? I am currently reassigned.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:27:00 AM
As fine as this platform I hope we are all active onthe class size campaign. Here is a great opportunity to make a difference in a cause we all agree on.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:14:00 PM
I'm a little unclear. Norm praises that Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) endorses ICE TJC candidates. Who is ACT? It seems to be a party of 1.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:30:00 PM
And what's wrong with a party of one? Let's have 70,000 parties of one.
As long as they are all anti-Unity.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:02:00 PM
That's your platform?
Nothing about raises, contracts, curriculae, programs, class size, hiring, medical benefits, retirement tiers, CFE, school governance or how we're going to deal with the mayor and chancellor for the next two years?
Just change how people get elected in the UFT and oust Randi. That's the whole platform.
You people are pathetic. You think you can run a major union serving over 100,000 members without ideas or know-how? You're not fit to run a lemonade stand outside a school on a hot day.
- Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:17:00 PM
Let me guess you are also against the smaller class size campaign. You just want to make it in the contract with "these guys" and forget about the state government.
- Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:43:00 PM
This is a small part of the ICE platform.
ICE didn't vote against any of the campaigns to lower class sizes. We just know they have little chance of success.
- Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:16:00 PM
So you on'y participate or promote it? Or do you just want it to fail?
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:46:00 PM
I thought you guys were running for office? Who is running for what?
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:18:00 PM
Kit Wainer is running for President. He is the chapter leader from Leon Goldstein HS. Camille Johnson is running for Secretary. She was a chapter leader for many years and now is a delegate at Humanities and Arts HS.
There are nine other chapter leaders and delegates running for the top 11 positions. ICE-TJC will run a full slate for all 89 executive board positions. Petitioning is going on this week and next.
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:52:00 PM
I'd be thrilled if the class size campaign worked. We just know it has a little chance of succeeding.
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:14:00 PM
So you are waiting for petitions before announcing your candidates?
I think we need to know more than just where they work.
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:43:00 PM
Look on the Take Back the UFT blog. The candidates are listed there as the ICE leaflet is already out in many schools with the names of the candidates on it. They'll be here soon.
- Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:00:00 PM
How come Jeff, James, and Norm are not running? Ok. forget Norm.
- Monday, January 22, 2007 6:56:00 AM
Jeff and James are running for the high school executive board.
- Monday, January 22, 2007 4:09:00 PM
So what are you ICE people doing for this class size campaign? I guess you are all just hoping it fails so that you can blame Randi. My ICE chapter leader discouraged everyone from participating in this stuff with the legislators. Remind us again how much you speka for the membership.
- Monday, January 22, 2007 10:35:00 PM
ICE voted to support the class size campaign. We would love to see it succeed as it would benefit all of us.
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57:00 PM


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Juan Pujol Garcia lived a lie that helped win World War II. He was a double agent for the British, performing so well that they nicknamed him for the enigmatic actress Greta Garbo.
Author Stephan Talty tells the story of this unlikely hero in a new book called Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day.
"Pujol was the Walter Mitty of the war," a very imaginative daydreamer, Talty tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. "In 1941, he had about as much chance of being a master spy as you and I have of winning the Olympic decathlon this year."
"Pujol had failed in almost everything he'd tried in his 32 years: student, businessman, cinema magnate, soldier. His marriage was falling apart," Talty says. "But in one specialized area of war, the espionage subworld known as the double-cross game, the young man was a kind of savant, and he knew it. After years of suffering and doubt, Agent Garbo felt he was ready to match wits with the best of minds of the Third Reich."
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How Agent Garbo became a double agent
"When [the British] didn't pay any attention to him, his plans veered toward espionage. He knew that he had to go to the Germans first, establish himself as a German operative, and then turn double agent.
"But of course, he didn't have the ability to get to London, so he just went back to Lisbon. He pretended he was in London, a place he'd never been to. He didn't even speak the English language. And he started on this self-made, imaginary espionage career.
"The British were terrified. They were like, 'Someone has sneaked past our lines and someone is in the heart of the beast, reporting on us!' because his reports were so believable, even to people in the country he was supposed to be spying on."
How Agent Garbo fooled the Germans
"At the beginning ... he's just reporting movements of different battalions in England. Increasing confidence in himself and giving [the Germans] what he considers chicken feed — little bits of military information that, at the beginning, were completely true. These were nonessential facts the British felt that they could pass on. And slowly, over time, they begin to mix that chicken feet with imaginary information they wanted Germans to believe. So the ration of true to false declined over time and at the end he was giving them 100 percent fantasies.
"He was creating a million-man army called FUSAG, which was going to be sort of the alternative to the real one that landed at Normandy. Normandy would be presented as a feint, you know, provocative first move to get the Germans to attack it, while the real invasion was going to come up the coast at Calais. Pujol was the point of the spear in getting that information across to Hitler.
"There were fake destroyers being created out of rubber, fake airfields cut into the English countryside where real planes landed. [Pujol] was sort of the screen writer for an epic film that was being played out right across England."
Agent Garbo's war-winning lie
"The key memo he sent was on June 9th. This was the day Hitler and the high command were debating whether the Normandy invasion was the real one and whether to send all those reserves from Belgium and France down into Normandy and basically destroy the incoming divisions. And Pujol sent a very long detailed telegram saying "This is the fake, you have to believe me" and those panzer divisions were actually on the road, those troops were on the move, and Hitler sent an order turning them around. This was the key moment in the future of Normandy, in the future of that battle, and Garbo is really the author of that moment."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
Some of the heroes of the Normandy invasion in 1944, better known as D-Day, are legion: Eisenhower, General Monty, the 101st, the 82nd and so on. But how about Juan Pujol Garcia? Without him, D-Day may have been a disaster. Author Stephan Talty tells Pujol's story in his new book. It's called "Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day." And this is who Juan Pujol Garcia was.
STEPHAN TALTY: He was an ex-chicken farmer. He'd failed as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. He was managing a one-star dump hotel in Madrid. The one town he did have was this sort of raw imagination. And he had that really since childhood.
RAZ: As you write, he is essentially this nobody. He's running a one-star hotel in Madrid, he has these grand visions of doing something. So he goes to the British embassy at the outbreak of the Second World War, and he offers to be a spy for him and they basically laugh him off?
TALTY: Yeah. He walked in and he sort of said grandly, I offer you my services. And the response was, your services of what? I mean, he was - he had no background. He had no resume to offer. So they sort of laughed at him, basically, and passed him from secretary to assistant consul. Eventually, when they didn't pay attention to him, his plans veered towards espionage. So he knew that he had to go to the Germans first, establish himself as a German operative, and then turn double agent.
RAZ: So after being sort of spurned by the British, he goes to the Germans. He says I am a Nazi sympathizer. I want to be an agent on your behalf. Of course, he really wanted to be a double agent, but he felt he had to prove this to the Brits. He managed to forge a diplomatic passport, what you write, convince the Germans that he was the real deal. What did the Germans do at that point? They say, OK. You're our man. Go to London?
TALTY: They did. But, of course, he didn't have really the ability to get to London. So he just went back to Lisbon, pretended he was in London, a place he'd never been to - he didn't even speak the English language - and he started on this sort of self-made imaginary espionage career.
RAZ: He was writing false dispatches about what was happening in London.
TALTY: He would go to a movie, and there would be a newsreel. And he would see some kind of ship, and he would be able to produce sort of a huge description of what the ship was capable of, what its secret compartments held, things like that.
RAZ: All the while writing these from Lisbon, writing what's happening...
TALTY: All the while writing it from Lisbon, taking great risks. I mean, had the Germans made one check of his sources, he would have ended up in a concentration camp. I mean, Lisbon was accessible to the Germans.
RAZ: In Britain, some of these communications were intercepted, and he was so believable, you write, that the British counterintelligence started looking for this guy. They launched a manhunt in the U.K. trying to find Juan Pujol Garcia.
TALTY: Right. There was supposed to be no Nazi spies, no access spies in England at the time. And all of a sudden, on the airwaves comes this voice saying there's an armada heading for Malta to relieve it. And the British were terrified. They were like, someone has sneaked past our lines and someone is in the heart of the beast, because his reports were so believable even to people in the country that he was supposed to be spying on.
RAZ: How did he eventually convince the British that he was on their side and that they should actually use him, they should sponsor him?
TALTY: Well, it was really that report on the armada going to Malta. This was something that Pujol just created out of thin air, gave very precise details about what was happening. And the British were able to see that the Germans responded with full force. They sent Italian fighter planes. They sent warships to intercept this imaginary armada. So it told the British that this guy had power, that he was believed. And that was very important to them. So they brought him to London, they smuggled him in, and they debriefed him.
RAZ: And that's where they gave him the name Garbo.
TALTY: Right. The greatest actor in the world.
RAZ: And he was sent to work right away. They started to help him create a false network of spies. And this is what he did. He created fake imaginary spies all over Britain. What kind of information does he start to feed to the Germans?
TALTY: At the beginning, he's just reporting movements of different battalions in England, increasing confidence in himself and giving them what he considered chicken feed. Little bits of military information at the beginning were completely true. These were nonessential facts that the British felt that they could pass on. And slowly over time, they began to mix that chicken feed with imaginary information that they wanted the Germans to believe. So the ratio of true to false declined over time. And at the end, he was pretty much giving them 100 percent fantasies.
RAZ: I'm speaking with writer Stephan Talty. His new book is called "Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day." He became incredibly valuable in the run-up to the D-Day invasions to the point where you write, I mean, Eisenhower was aware of him. I mean, the high command knew of this guy. What kind of information was he sending to the Germans in the run-up to D-Day?
TALTY: He was creating a million-man army called FUSAG, which was going to be sort of the alternative army to the real one that landed at Normandy. Normandy would be presented as a faint, you know, provocative first move to get the Germans to attack it while the real invasion was going to come up the coast at Calais.
So Pujol was the point of the spear in getting that information across to Hitler. He was giving them reports of huge movements of troops and battalions across England, all pointing towards Dover, which was the natural launching point for an invasion of Calais. There was also - there were fake destroyers being created out of rubber, fake airfields being cut into the English countryside and where real planes landed. So he was sort of the screenwriter for an epic film that was being played out right across England.
RAZ: What's amazing is that two months after the Normandy invasion, the Germans maintained two armored divisions and 19 infantry divisions in Calais waiting for that second attack.
TALTY: Absolutely. I mean, General Eisenhower asked for 48 hours to keep the 15th Army out of his hair. That was really the standard of success for Garbo. But weeks and months later, those troops were just waiting for the real invasion, waiting for Garbo's army to show up.
RAZ: What's absolutely amazing to me is that, as you write, the Germans did not discover this deception until after the war. On July 29, 1944, they awarded him an Iron Cross for his service to Nazi Germany.
TALTY: Yes, they did. I mean, it was a source of endless amusement to Garbo and his handlers. But it was really proof of their success. And he kept that for the rest of his life. I mean, he was so proud of that. That was something that was really supposed to be given to frontline combatants, and here they were breaking their own rules to give it to a spy that couldn't be named elsewhere in their records but that they felt had been a loyal, fanatical supporter of the Nazis, when, in fact, he'd really been the opposite.
RAZ: The irony, of course, is just five months later, in another ceremony, but this one in Britain, he was awarded an MBE - a Member of the British Empire - for his real service to the Allied efforts.
TALTY: Yeah. I mean, I can't think of another spy, especially, who received high accolades, really, from both sides.
RAZ: What happened to Juan Pujol Garcia after the war?
TALTY: It's kind of a tragic story. He was afraid that the Nazis were going to mount reprisals against his family. His wife had really gotten sick of the war in London, gotten sick of England, and the war really broke them up. So he fled to Venezuela to hide out. She went with him for a couple of years but afterwards took the kids back to Madrid. They had three small children by that time. And Pujol lost touch with him. They grew up believing the cover story that he put out, that he had died in Angola or Mozambique in 1948. You know, they believed that for three decades that their father was dead when he was alive and well and living in Venezuela. So he paid a very high price for his service.
RAZ: He died in 1988 in Venezuela. He was running a small gift shop. But he was recognized very shortly before he died.
TALTY: Right. A guy named Nigel West, who's really the dean of British spy writers, made it his life's work, really, to track down the real Garbo. And he found him in Venezuela, brought him back for the 40th anniversary of D-Day, and he walked those beaches where he'd saved so many thousands of lives. And there was a group of veterans, who were standing there with their wives and families, and they turned and embraced, and Pujol, you know, cried his eyes out. But it was really the only thing that meant anything to him. He was really in it to save liberty but also to save lives.
RAZ: That's Stephan Talty. His new book is called "Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day." Stephan, thanks so much.
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The club's former head coach and current vice-chair delivered an animated 10-minute address to the team following Friday's practice as the Argonauts prepare to host the Edmonton Eskimos.
Toronto (4-2) enters Sunday's game tops in the CFL East Division and riding a three-game winning streak, while Edmonton (1-5) limps into Rogers Centre in the West basement.
It's not the first time Clemons, a star Toronto running back on the field and member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame off it, has spoken to the Argonauts while a member of the club's front office. He stood up in front of the team during a losing streak last season and again prior to the Argonauts' victory in the 100th Grey Cup.
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"I was fortunate to have a surprise visitor and he's always welcome," Argonauts head coach Scott Milanovich said coyly before adding: "Pinball played here, coached here and he's a lifetime Argo — and then also the best speaker I've ever been around. He's one of us and the players feel like he's one of them, and he is.
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Argonauts defensive tackle Kalif Mitchell is in his first season with Toronto but sees the value in what Clemons has to offer.
"It gives us a perspective of somebody who's not playing, but played the game and also understands how the game should be played," Mitchell said. "He gives it to us raw. He never gives it to us sugarcoated."
One treat for the Argonauts so far in 2013 has been the play of veteran quarterback Ricky Ray.
The 33-year-old former Eskimos pivot, who has missed one game with a knee injury, is third in CFL passing with 1,355 yards and second in touchdowns with 11, to go along with zero interceptions.
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"The challenge when you're playing well and winning football games is to not let up and start going through the motions and think that we're playing good right now and we'll show up for gametime," said Ray, who joined Toronto after a trade with Edmonton before last season. "We've still got to do the things that have gotten us to this point, which is practise hard, study, and pay attention to all those little details."
With a game against the Calgary Stampeders (5-1 heading into Saturday's game against the B.C. Lions) on deck next week, the Argos could be excused for looking past an Edmonton team that will be minus last season's outstanding defensive player J.C. Sherritt, who is out indefinitely after thumb surgery.
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Inman has been taking first-team reps this week at practice and Milanovich said he's "hopeful" he will be good to go against Edmonton.
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In the backfield, the Argos could have a different starting running back for the third time in four games. After Kackert went down, Curtis Steele played well but picked up a groin injury in last week's victory over Montreal. If Steele can't go or is limited on Sunday, former NFLer Quinn Porter will likely come off the practice roster.
Toronto's depth on offence, which includes backup quarterback Zach Collaros' three-touchdown debut in place of the injured Ray in Week 5, has been impressive in the early going of 2013.
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