No Fear
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No Fear

A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

  1. 498 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

No Fear

A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

About this book

As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore, assisting post-apartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations that a multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans mining vanadium—a vital strategic mineral--she found that the EPA was the first line of defense for the corporation. When the agency stonewalled, Coleman-Adebayo blew the whistle.

            How could she know that the agency with a hippie-like logo would use every racist and sexist trick in their playbook in retaliation? The EPA cost her her career, endangered her family, and sacrificed more lives in the vanadium mines of South Africa—but also brought about an upwelling of support from others in the federal bureaucracy who were fed up with its crushing repression.

            Upon prevailing in court, Coleman-Adebayo organized a grassroots struggle to bring protection to all federal employees facing discrimination and retribution from the government. The No FEAR Coalition that she organized waged a two-year-long battle with Congress over the need to protect whistleblowers—and won. This book is her harrowing story.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Back Cover
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Welcome to EPA: Consider Yourself an Honorary White Man
  9. 2 The Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing: “Call Me Bella”
  10. 3 Ultimatum to Public Service
  11. 4 The Gore-Mbeki Commission: The Sound That Freedom Makes
  12. 5 Alexandra: The Sacrifice Zone
  13. 6 Who Are You Calling a Necklacer?
  14. “Sleep”
  15. 7 Why Waste MIT on People Like That?
  16. 8 My Name Is Jacob Ngakane
  17. 9 Back to MIT
  18. 10 Breathing College Air
  19. 11 Barnard College: The Path Sisters Take
  20. 12 MIT: The Vortex of Minds and Hearts
  21. 13 Ethiopia: The Good Mother
  22. 14 Retaliation at EPA
  23. 15 Something Deeper Than Words
  24. “Something Deeper Than Words”
  25. 16 President of the United States: The Playbook
  26. 17 Last Obstacle to the End Run
  27. “Love Will Bring Me Forth”
  28. 18 Yes, Clarice
  29. “The Sacrifice Zone”
  30. 19 The 1998 Trip to South Africa: My Tongue Is Green
  31. “The Registry of Man”
  32. 20 Death Threats and Missed Opportunities
  33. 21 Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol M. Browner
  34. 22 Betrayal Is Best Served Cold
  35. 23 Discrimination or Disappointment?
  36. “Waiting”
  37. 24 The Verdict
  38. 25 Can You Hear Me?
  39. 26 Behind Closed Doors: The Browner-NAACP Meeting
  40. 27 Congressional Hearings: Intolerance at EPA
  41. “Today I’m Gray”
  42. 28 A Call to History
  43. 29 Journey to No Fear
  44. 30 Al Sharpton: The X Factor
  45. 31 Vanadium
  46. 32 Breathing African Air
  47. Postscript: Giants and Grasshoppers
  48. “Like a Landscape from the Book of Time”
  49. Afterword
  50. Endnotes
  51. Bibliography
  52. Appendix: Legislative Stages to the No FEAR Public Law
  53. Index