David Baker (activist)

David A. Baker is an American activist. A former union organizer, Baker is the founder and director of Community Against Pollution.

David Baker
Nationality	American
Occupation	Activist

Background

Baker is from Anniston, Alabama.^[1] As children, he and his younger brother Terry would play in ditches and cross the water in the ditches that were used for the Monsanto plant run-off.^{[citation needed]}

In 1970 ^[2] his brother died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 17. Baker believes that this was caused by PCBs in the environment.^[3] Since then he has been instrumental in getting lawyers to represent the people who appear to be the victims of PCB poisoning.^[4]

In 1995 while he was working for an environmental company, he accidentally discovered that the presence of PCB's had been covered up for 50 years.^[5]

Recent & current

He is the founder and Executive Director of the organization Community Against Pollution.^[6][7]

He was also active in the organisation of a team of workers going to help in the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.^[8]

Organization membership

• Community Against Pollution (Founder / Director)
• Environmental Working Group (Board of Directors)
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Member)
• Calhoun County Chapter of the NAACP (Vice-President)^[9]

Video

• The GMWatch video collection ... (Contributor) ^[10]
• The World According to Monsanto ... (Himself) ^[11]

Awards

• EPA 1st Assistant Administrator's Environmental Justice Incentive Award 2003^{[citation needed]}
• CARAT Team Award^[12]