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New CHE Blog and Facebook page

3/10/10: This month CHE launched two new features, a CHE blog and a CHE Facebook page. CHE offers the blog to promote dialogue on issues at the intersection of human health and the environment. CHE's Facebook page will be updated several times a week with announcements, important new reports and news and other information that be of interest to CHE Partners.

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New biomonitoring study release and Senate Hearing - Feb 4th

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In memory of Rita Arditti - Remembering an inspiring cancer activist

by Dick Clapp and Genevieve Howe

The women’s movement and the environmental movement lost a champion on Christmas Day, 2009. Rita Arditti of Cambridge, MA died, at age 75, after a phenomenally productive and inspiring life and a decades-long battle with metastatic breast cancer. She was born in Argentina and educated in Italy as a biologist, which led to doing research and teaching at Brandeis, Harvard, and Boston Universities. For the past three decades, she was a core Faculty member at the Union Institute and University and was professor emerita there at the time of her death. An unwavering feminist, she was a founding member of “Science for the People” and the New Words bookstore in Cambridge; she maintained her ties to the bookstore throughout its 28-year history. Along the way, she wrote a book about women searching for their missing grandchildren who were among the “disappeared” under the military dictatorship in Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This influential book was titled Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina and was published in 1999. Throughout her life, Rita could always be found at events, rallies, and protests against injustice and suppression of human rights. Occasionally she was a speaker, but she always was present on the side of the oppressed.

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