• Título: FIGHTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
• Invitado: Sofía Gatica.
• Conductor: Chelis López
• Fecha: THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012
• Descripción: FIGHTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. An Argentine mother of three who fought to ban pesticide use near residential areas is one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Prize, the world’s largest prize given to grassroots environmentalists from around the globe.
• Género: News
• Ubicación: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6664
• Productor: Samuel Orozco
• Número del Programa: 6664
• Editor: Radio Bilingüe
• Derechos: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Asunto: Environment
• Año: 2012
• Nombre del Programa: la_120419.mp3
• Duración: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Formato: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

FIGHTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. An Argentine mother of three who fought to ban pesticide use near residential areas is one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Prize, the world’s largest prize given to grassroots environmentalists from around the globe. Sofía Gática is from a small town in Argentina surrounded by soy farms. She and other women formed the group Mothers of Ituzaingo after seeing a rise in cancer and birth defects in their community. Gática’s own daughter was born with a malformed kidney and died soon after. The group took their case to court and successfully won a lawsuit that ruled to prohibit the use of agrochemicals within 1000 meters of residential areas in the region of Córdoba.

Guest: Sofía Gática, Goldman Prize Winner, Washington, D.C., www.goldmanprize.org , http://www.madresdeituzaingo.blogspot.com