CLEVELAND — One hundred fifty miles northwest of here, the residents of Flint, Mich., are still reeling from the drinking water debacle that more than doubled the share of children with elevated levels of lead in their blood — to a peak, in mid-2014, of 7 percent of all children tested.
Clevelanders can only sympathize. The comparable number here is 14.2 percent.
The poisoning of Flint’s children outraged the nation. But too much lead in children’s blood has long been an everyday fact in Cleveland and scores of other cities — not because of bungled decisions about drinking water, but largely because a decades-long attack on lead in household paint has faltered. It is a tragic reminder that one of the great public health crusades of the 20th century remains unfinished. - (By Michael Wines, New York Times March 3, 2016 )
Welcome! U.N.D.I.V.I.D.E.D.; (Unified Neighboring Demographics in Voiced Indivisibility Deconstructing Environmental Disease) Cleveland was formed June 21st, 2017. It was formulated in response to the current neurological health and sociological emergency occurring in Cleveland, Ohio and around the world.
Our Organizational Mission Declaration:
· Building collective understanding detailing humanity’s physiological, neurological, environmental, and sociological detriments as a result of acute as well as low level exposure to chemical lead.
· Fundraising on behalf of those whose families have been or are currently affected by the implications of environmental and/or domestic lead exposure. (Which will Include: Lead Poison related Medical Expenses, Displacement and/or Relocating Expenses accumulated as a result of Lead Contamination, Extensive Abatement Fee Accommodation, Food Assistance, Clothing Assistance, & if needed Legal Representation)
· Assisting the effective testing diagnostic measurements, assessments, and/or local regulations of Lead Contaminated homes, and community environments in Cleveland, Northeast Ohio, and worldwide.
· Unifying and/or cooperating with other reformative liberation movements.
Our membership is extended to everyone impacted and/or compelled by the irreversible physiological and sociological tragedies associated with domestic lead contamination and/or environmental exposure.
U.N.D.I.V.I.D.E.D.; Cleveland calls for the emergent protective education, preventative assistance, and systematic removal of domestic and environmental lead contaminants from all communities all around the world, not isolated to Northeastern Ohio. We also support the organizational, political, educational, and/or charitable efforts of congruent reformative movements also actively seeking or advocating for the removal of lead toxic domestic and environmental conditions in Cleveland, and throughout the United States. We advocate for the universal rights of all children to possess the intrinsic intellectual functionality provided by God through their genetic code, not the environmental conditions of their economic zip code.
We condemn the usage of lead based paints, filtration piping, and industrial environmental pollutants that also perpetuate toxic lead childhood lead exposure in our locally affected communities, as well as negatively impacted communities worldwide. We will not neglect the profiting exploitation groups that most unethically capitalize off of the inhumane degradation of those affected by this insidious toxin. U.N.D.I.V.D.E.D.; Cleveland is openly opposed to the well-known and documented federal and local neglect, as well as the for sale profit of realty companies who advertise homes to be purchased and allocated for without the regulatory precautions of health standard being met, enabling the continuation of physiological, as well as environmental, and sociological deterioration throughout communities nationwide.
