The May/June P&R contained case-studies, written by activists - from Michigan, Louisiana, New York and California - illustrating successful use of demographic data in community environmental struggles. The two articles below, by academics working in this area, provide a more general discussion of the issue. July/August 1996 issue of Poverty & Race The May/June … [Read more...] about Symposium: Environmental Justice
“The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Luke W. Cole (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) One of the great myths of white America is that the truth will set you free. What I mean by this is that simply being right, or having the truth on your side, does not mean you will win a particular struggle. The struggles communities fighting dangerous and unwanted facilities have been undertaking across the … [Read more...] about “The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Rachel Godsil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In November 1995, the East New York Community Committee Against the Incinerator celebrated a victory: the Committee had just defeated a wood-waste incinerator slated for a permit in the primarily African-American and Latino community of Brooklyn's East New York area. A few months later, another Brooklyn … [Read more...] about “The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Kary L. Moss (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This Special Issue of Poverty & Race, for which I am Guest Editor- the second half of which will appear in the next issue-focuses on the importance of racial and other demographic data in the Environmental Justice Movement. A common theme in the four case-studies presented here is the importance of information … [Read more...] about “Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article focuses on one aspect of a broad challenge by Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT), a grassroots coalition in Louisiana, to the proposed construction, between two small African American communities-Forest Grove and Center Springs--of the first privately owned … [Read more...] about “Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
