FREE Screening of "Toxic Bust" May 5, 2009

Contact:
Cheryl Osimo, Event Coordinator
[email protected]
www.mbcc.org/swim

For Immediate Release:
2009

Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition’s
Free Screening of “Toxic Bust”
Come and learn about the preventable causes of cancer

Join us for a free screening of Toxic Bust- a thought-provoking and visually compelling documentary about the preventable causes of breast cancer. Most breast cancer funding and research has gone toward treatment, and finding a cure. Far less emphasis has been given to prevention and discovering the causes. Director Megan Siler focuses on three cancer "hotspots" (Cape Cod, SF Bay Area, and hi-tech manufacturing workers) to explore the connection between breast cancer and chemical exposure in the home, community, and workplace.

Defining breast cancer as a political issue, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition challenges all obstacles to the eradication of this disease and believes that compelling research exists linking environmental toxins to the dramatic rise in breast cancer incidence over the past several decades. Silent Spring Institute is a Massachusetts-based non-profit research organization dedicated to identifying – and changing – the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer.

The event will also feature more information about the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition’s premiere fundraiser “Against The Tide”: a one-mile recreation or competitive swim, two-mile kayak and three-mile fitness walk. “Against the Tide” is not a big, corporate show, but an event that celebrates families and individuals of all ages and abilities coming together to truly end this epidemic,” says Executive Director Deborah Shields; “It is empowering and uplifting to know that we are contributing towards a healthier future; one in which our mothers, daughters, and friends will not have to fear that they will be the one in seven diagnosed with breast cancer.”

To learn more about the film, please visit their website at http://toxicbust.org. For more Against the Tide registration materials, sponsor information, and fundraising ideas, please visit www.mbcc.org/swim.

If you are interested in attending the event, please register by emailing to [email protected]

Directions to the event:
The Orientation Glass Room is located on the first floor of the McKim Building (The older building) If you enter on the Dartmouth Street side of the library, take a left to the end of the hall. The Orientation Glass
Room is just before the restrooms. It is Room 201B.

Directions to the Library:
By subway
Green Line to Copley Station.
Orange Line to Back Bay/South End Station. Walk down Dartmouth Street to Copley Square.

By car
Interstate 93 (from north or south) Take Storrow Drive exit. Take Copley Square exit off of Storrow Drive. The exit deadends at a signal light. The cross street is Beacon. Take a right on Beacon Street. While on Beacon Street, you will cross Berkeley, Clarendon, and Dartmouth Streets. The next street is Exeter. Take a left onto Exeter (it is a one-way street). While on Exeter, you will cross Marlborough Street, Commonwealth Avenue, and Newbury Street. The next cross street is Boylston. The Library is on the corner of Exeter and Boylston Streets.

Mass Pike (Interstate 90) Come all the way into the city on the Mass Pike. Take the Copley Square exit (the sign will read: Prudential Center, Copley Square). The exit road will split, follow the Copley Square (right) lane. You will exit the tunnel onto Stuart Street. You will be on the right hand side of the street. Move to the lane furthest left. Take the left at the next light, Dartmouth Street (approximately 500 feet from the tunnel exit). The Library is on the left of Dartmouth Street, after the next light (approximately 500 feet).

Official Website: http://toxicbust.org