PITTSFIELD, Mass. - TelAve -- MEDIA ADVISORY

Veterans For Peace Launch 'DEEP DIVE' Initiative To Purge GE's Toxic Legacy At Deep Dive Summit - Sat Apr 25, 2026

WHAT: DEEP DIVE Summit - A community summit and public confrontation regarding General Electric's (GE) long-standing PCB contamination. Veterans For Peace members will join Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and community experts to present new environmental accountability for decades of toxic chemical discharge.

WHEN: Saturday, April 25, 2026 / TIME: 1 PM – 4:00 PM

WHERE: United Church of Christ, 110 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201

About Deep Dive Summit 2026

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WHY: Despite decades of litigation, the legacy of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) remains a critical threat to public health and local waterways. Veterans For Peace, framing environmental protection as a matter of national security and moral obligation, will join Hedges to highlight the intersection of corporate power, military-industrial interests, and ecological destruction.

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:

Chris Hedges: American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, ordained Presbyterian minister, and activist known for his critiques of American imperialism, corporate capitalism, and the Christian right. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, focusing on war, conflict, and the Middle East. Chris will be delivering the keynote address "Blue Renewal".

Bob Jones: Lee Select Board member, Robert has been a fierce, unwavering voice against the status quo, demanding real accountability and a cleaner future for our waters.

Robert Heinzman: A Yale-educated restoration scientist and member of Town of Lee Select Board's PCB Advisory Committee "Bioremediation Czar" challenging GE's landfill-centric approach with standards-based ecological restoration.

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Dr. Robert Wespiser: Former BMC Chief Of Staff, with 39 years on the Lee Board of Health, member of Town of Lee Select Board's PCB Advisory Committee, serves as the "clinical conscience" regarding the unstudied health impacts on river valley residents.

Eric Wasileski: President Of Veterans For Peace Daniel Shays Chapter 186, Persian Gulf Veteran of Operation Desert Fox (98) and of Europe in Yugoslavia, Operation Joint Endeavour (96). He is fighting now to make both war and water pollution obsolete, framing the fight for clean water as a matter of domestic security.

Important Links:

FB Event Page - https://www.facebook.com/events/1460623485616030
Tickets / Donations - https://tixfox.co/e/TJfPlDk2gp

Media Contact:
Leslie Gabriel
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