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Today's Occupy EPA and NOW DC rally went off with a bang!

An eclectic crowd of whistleblower supporters, environmental protectors, and Occupy supporters marched today starting from Franklin Square Park and ending at the EPA offices. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistleblowers Center Board of Directors, enthusiastically led the rally.

Following Dr. Coleman-Adebayo’s lead, the rally attendees blew whistles in front of the EPA offices and chanted, “Hey hey! No fear! You can blow the whistle ‘cause we are here!” This statement was in response to the chilling effect that retaliation against whistleblowers has had at the EPA.

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Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network.

In the first half hour, guest host Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo interviews Susan Morris, former Deputy Director of the EPA’s Office of Civil Rights. They discuss Ms. Morris’ decision to blow the whistle on the EPA and the impact it has had on her life. They also talk about the upcoming March 30th Occupy EPA demonstration.

In the second segment, Richard Renner and author Eyal Press, discuss his most recent article "Chilling Dissent on Wall Street" and the New York Times editorial by Greg Smith about the culture of greed at Goldman Sachs.

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You can catch Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Library on C-Span/Book TV starting tomorrow. Called No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph, the lecture draws on her book, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA.  You can read our coverage of her book signing here.

C-SPAN will air Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture:

Saturday, January 21st at 9:15am (ET)
Saturday, January 21st at 4:30pm (ET)
Sunday, January 22nd at 10pm (ET)

UPDATE: Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture is now available from C-SPAN online.

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Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo (pictured with Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy) celebrated the release of her new book at Busboys and Poets last night. Her book is called, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA. 

The event began with a short documentary film produced and directed by Tylon Washington and Shawna Glover. The film began with interviews in South Africa of victims of vanadium mining. They explained how they worked without protective equipment. The vanadium pentoxide entered their lungs, came out of their pores, and damaged their bedsheets and bodies. Some interviews were with their widows. The American company that ran the vanadium mine took x-rays of their workers' lungs, but would not share those x-rays with the injured workers. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo sacrificed her career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to speak out against the poisoning of South Africa. NO FEAR tells the story of these workers, Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's efforts to protect them, the retaliation she suffered, her historic jury verdict against EPA, and the campaign that led to the NO-FEAR Act.

Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy introduced Dr. Coleman-Adebayo. He called her a Rosa Parks for the 21st Century.

Hosts of the event were Teaching for Change, TransAfrica Forum, National Whistleblowers Center (of which Dr. Coleman-Adebayo is a Board member), No FEAR Coalition, Alliance for Justice in the Workplace, and USDA Minority Committee.

You can order her new book from the NWC store.

For more information about her current campaign to remove one EPA retaliator, follow this link. You can also visit Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's own web page. Follow the continuation of this blog post for more photos.

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No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA is a new book by environmental whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo (pictured, with EPA whistleblowers David Lewis and Bill Sanjour). In 1996, Dr. Coleman-Adebayo was a senior policy analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She was assigned to an international team to assist the new democratic government of South Africa. She raised concerns that an American company was poisoning a South African community with its vanadium mining. She soon discovered that her superiors EPA did not want any American companies to be fingered for polluting South Africa. Her ordeal became the subject of a jury trial.  The jury ruled in her favor. However, the EPA paid nothing. The Department of Justice paid the award from the government's general liability fund. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo led a campaign for the NO-FEAR Act. Under this law, federal agencies must now pay for their unlawful discrimination out of their own budget.

Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's new book recounts in detail how government officials reacted to whistleblowing. It is particularly telling about the added ferocity African-American women face when they speak truth to power. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo is on a speaking tour now. Today she will be a guest on the Michael Eric Dyson show. For more information about her current campaign to remove one EPA retaliator, follow this link. You can also visit Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's own web page. You can order her new book from Powell's here.

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