One of the ways that corporations move catastrophe around is finding the least empowered communities to dump toxic waste and other pollution. I mean this quite literally--there is a ton.
I was struck in yesterday's race and policing thread by the number of commenters who said that corporate words about fighting racism (blackwashing perhaps?) actually had meaning. They don't. The.
It's easy to speak words about environmental justice. It's much harder to take actions around the issue because environmental racism and injustice is about powerful industries targeting the poor, both.
I really enjoyed this New York Times op-ed about a fight by a historically black community to stop a dirty energy facility from being in their community and how it.
The meat industry routinely seeks to site large farms in poorer areas that need the few jobs they provide. As with other polluting industries, this means they target people of.
Important new research here on the connections between major toxic polluters and where they site their factories: We ask the following questions: (I) Are producer disproportionalities present and consistent across.
...the oil industry has targeted the traditionally African-American neighborhood of Mobile, Africatown, for its storage facilities. Africatown has long been the neighborhood of choice for polluting industries in Mobile, which.
Beth Alvarado has a lovely and sad essay at Guernica about the cancers that killed her husband and much of his family who lived in a neighborhood on the south.
