HOGANSBURG – Green Party congressional candidate Donald Hassig, arrested last week in Parishville for demonstrating at the town beach, is calling on supporters to meet Friday where a native man tried to bulldoze a mound of allegedly toxic waste a year ago.

On the anniversary, Hassig has lined up speakers at noon on removal of the toxic mound, including Larry Thompson, who protested the existence of the mound close to Mohawk territory by attempting to dig it up.

Hassig said the event will be “to focus public attention on the continuing presence of PCBs on the GM Powertrain Superfund Site located adjacent to and west of the Akwesasne reservation.”

Hassig, the activist founder of Cancer Action New York, said PCBs and other industrial wastes were disposed of in an illegal industrial landfill during the 1960s, contaminating approximately 12 acres.

Hassig is running for Congress on the Green Party line to represent the 21st Congressional District against incumbent Democrat Bill Owens of Plattsburgh and Watertown Republican candidate Matt Doheny.