WOMEN'S LOBBY OF COLORADO: Taking the fight to the state legislature
I received the email below from the Women's Lobby of Colorado. Fantastic to hear they are taking this issue to the legislature. They also sponsored EWG's Safe Cosmetics event that I attended at the University of Denver last fall. The turnout was wildly larger than what was expected, and worth the trip. Ironically, it was probably the most toxic place I'd been in years. Nothing like 500 women in a room, all wearing synthetically fragranced perfumes, synthetically fragranced lotions, and all donned in clothes washed in the ever more overpowering, toxic and permanently adhering chemical-fragranced laundry products.
The email:
Looking Ahead- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
The Women's Lobby believes that toxic industrial chemicals do not belong in personal careproducts- or in our bodies. Learn more over free lunch!
When: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 12:00 noon
Where: Colorado Education Association, 1500 Grant Street, Columbine Room.
The 2009 legislative session has just ended, and the Women's Lobby is already planning for 2010.
Everyday, we use as many as 25 personal care products on our bodies, from shampoo to deodorant, to face cream and make-up. Some chemicals in these products are linked to caner, birth defects and infertility- and most have never been evaluated for health and safety at all. Because the Women's Lobby believes that we have the right to safe and healthy products, we plan to propose legislation to protect our health by eliminating the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems. We have been working with the national Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to run legislation in Colorado in 2010.
Visit www.safecosmetics.org for more information about the campaign and to access a database evaluating the safety of the products you use.
You are invited to learn more and provide input in the bill over lunch on Tuesday June 9th. We know the well-funded chemical industry will do everything to oppose our legislation, so we are building support starting now. We will need a broad coalition including women's organizations, safe cosmetics companies, environmental organizations, labor organizations, faith-based organizations, youth organizations, health care organizations, and interested individuals.
The Women's Lobby will provide lunch. Please RSVP to womenslobby@hotmail.com to reserve your free lunch.
