COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a white knee crushing a Black neck. A dream so long deferred suddenly exploded in city after city. What's next?
A new report presents the most complete analysis of environmental conflicts to date, focusing on 3,000 cases of grassroots activism worldwide, activism by the poor and indigenous that comes with a heavy cost of criminalization, violence, and murder.
Scientist Sacoby Wilson has long focused on health and environmental injustice. Here he discusses how social and environmental inequality has contributed to the outsized impact of COVID-19 on low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Cedric Richmond is a rising Democratic Party star and co-chair of Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign. The African American congressman is also one of the highest Democratic Party recipients of donations from the oil, gas and chemicals industries.
Louisiana is one of the states, mostly Southern, where energy companies use eminent domain to take property for oil and gas infrastructure. Typically the seizures are in rural and poor areas where political support for the oil industry is strong.
The Green New Deal is not perfect but it’s all we’ve got to credibly address the existential climate change crisis at a national level. And despite its imperfections it does include a powerful provision to protect the indigenous people of the U.S.
This book, by pediatrician, scientist and activist Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, is the first-hand account of record of the Flint Water Crisis, written by the person that brought the catastrophe to the public's attention.
The uranium tailings spill at Church Rock, NM was the largest single release of radioactive contamination in US history. But the radioactive spill in this small Native American farming community is the nuclear accident that almost no one knows about.
Many poor rural Southern communities lack a decent water and sewage infrastructure; consequently, poverty-related infections, or “neglected tropical diseases,” have been discovered in southeastern Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Saving the land cannot be separated from saving the people, their livelihood, health and the best of their way of life, from the reach of profiteers. The first peoples, the new pioneers of mountain farms, veterans of mining, labor in unions and not, coal-resistance activists have tales that can teach their more modernized would-be helpers. Learn to listen. It will take patience and perseverance to renew coal country, and the rest of the Earth too.
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