THE OF AN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT DOMINATED OF WHITE THE BY THE INTERESTS PEOPLE IS OVER BEGINNING OF THE END CAME IN SEPTEMBER 1982 AN WARREN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHEN MORE THAN 500 PREDOMINANTLY AFRICANAMERICAN RESIDENTS WERE ARRESTED FOR OF TRUCKS BLOCKING THE PATH CARRYING TOIOC PCBS TO NEWLY DESIGNATED HAZ ARDOUSWANC AMONG THOSE TAKEN INTO CUSTODYWAS THE REVEREND BENJAMIN CHAVIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST COMMISSION FOR RACIAL JUSTICE CRJ HIS SUSPICIONS AS TO WHY NORTH

CAROLINA WOULD CHOOSE BLACK COMMUNITY AS DUMP FOR ITS POISON WERE

CONFIRMED IN MILESTONE REPORT BY

THE CRJ IN 1987 WHICH DEMON

STRATED THAT THE SINGLE MOST SIGNIFI

CANT FACTOR IN THE SITING OF

HAZARDOUSWASTE FACILITIES NATIONWIDE WAS RACE

SUBSEQUENT REPORT BY THE NATIONAL LAWJOURNAL FOUND THAT THE

EPA TOOK 20 PERCENT LONGER TO IDEN TIFY SUPERFUND SITES IN MINORITY FL OF COMMUNITIES AND THAT POLLUTERS EJJ THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE FINED ONLY HALF AS MUCH AS POLLUTERS OF WHITE ONES

ARMEDWITH PROOF OF WHAT HAS BECOME KNOWN AS II ATT COOSEENVIRONMENTAL RACISM ALLIANCE OF CHURCH

LABOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY OF COLOR AROSE TO DEMAND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LED BY PEOPLE JUSTICE PART OF DOING SO MEANT CONFRONTING THE SOCALLED GROUP OFTEN THE NA

TIONS LARGESTAND LARGELY WHITEENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND BLUNTLY

ACCUSING THEM OF RACISM FROM THE CHARGES CAME IN EARLY 1990 IN JOLTING SERIES OF LETTERS

LOUISIANAS GULF COAST TENANT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND THE

SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT IN ALBUQUERQUE SEE THE LETTER

THAT SHOOK MOVEMENTPAGE 54 ABASHED MANY OF THE MAIN IF TRANSFORMATION LAST STREAM GROUPS VOWED REFORMATION NOT THE SIERRA CLUBS CENTENNIAL AT MAY IN SPEECH CELEBRATING THENEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MICHAEL FISCHER HARPERS FERRY WEST VIRGINIA THE CALLED FOR FRIENDLY TAKEOVER OF THE SIERRA CLUB BY PEOPLE OF COLOR

ALTERNATIVE HE SAID WAS FOR THE CLUB TO REMAIN MIDDLECLASS GROUP OF AND BACKPACKERS OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE IN MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM AGENDAAND THUS CONDEMNJED TO LOSING INFLUENCE IN AN INCREASINGLY MULTICULTURAL COUNTRY THE STRU FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THIS OTHE SIERRA CLUB COUNTRY AND AROUND THE GLOBE MUST BE THE PRIMARY GOAL DURING ITS SECOND CENNNY OF THE ENVIRON RECENTLY SIERRA INVITED SOME OF THE LEADING PROPONENTS

SIERRA 51

CALHI SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING GUIDE PAGE MENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT TO SAN FRANCISCO TO EXPLORE HOW MENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT FROM 30YEARLONG CAREER IN THE FUTURE WERE CIVIL IN RACIAL WE MIGHT ARRIVE AT THAT MULTICULTURAL ATTENDING RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FIND THE REVEREND CHAVIS RICHARD MOORECOCHAIR OFTHE SOUTH THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSACE MOVEMENT IS EMERGING AS THE

WEST NETWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN BRIDGE MOVEMENT BRINGING DIVERSE RACIAL AND ETHNIC COM ALBUQUERQUE AND LONGTIME COMMUNITY ORGANIZER VIVIEN MUNITIES TOGETHER IN PROFOUND WAY WAYNO OTHER ISSUE TASK FORCE AND HAS LI CHAIR OF THE SIERRA CLUBS ETHNIC DIVERSITY EVEN THE POTENTIAL TO DO DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON HARBOR ASSOCIATION SCOTT DOUGLAS RICHARD MUIR ITS CERTAINLY THE FIRST MEETING THAT IVE AT THEN COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ARITH THE SIERRA CLUBS SOUTHEAST TENDED WHERE WEVE BEEN ASKED TO COME TOGETHER ARID HAVE

OFFICE HE HAS SINCE BEEN NAMED DIRECTOR OF GREATER BIRM THIS KIND OFDIALOGUE WE APPRECIATE THATTHATS WHAT THE LET

INGHARN MINISTRIES AND WINONA LADUKE DIRECTOR OF THE TEN AND ALL THAT WAS ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE

WHITE EARTH RECOVERYPROJECT IN MINNESOTA THE DISCUSSION AUTISM RICHARD YOUVE WRITTEN QUITE FEW LETTERS AND WAS MODERATED BY CARL ANTHONY PRESIDENT OFEARTH ISLAND THEY ALL MADE LOT OFWAVES COULD YOU TELL US ABOUT THE ONE INSTITUTE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND FOUNDER OF ITS

URBAN HABITAT PROGRAM

CART AUTHOMY WEVE ALL BEEN INVOLVED IN THE

STRUGGLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR VERY LONG TIME EVEN IF WEDIDNT ALWAYS CALL IT THAT REVEREND CHAVIS YOU INVENTED THE TERNI ENVI RORIRNENTAL RACISM DIDNT YOU BENJAMIN CHAVIS WE COINED IT BUT THE REALITY

WAS OUT THEREWE JUST GAVE LANGUAGE TO IT THIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DEFINI MOVEMENT JUSTICE IS TIVE MOVEMENT WERE REDEFINING OUR REALITIES

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE IS THAT OUR WORK MUST BE

DONE FROM GRASSROOTS PERSPECTIVE AND IT MUST BE MULTIRACIAL AND MULTICULTURAL WE ARE LEARN

ING HOWTO DO THAT THERES NO BLUEPRINT BUT THERE ARE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT EMERGE AND THATS WHAT WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE GOOD NEWS IS WERE BEING INCLUSIVE NOT EXCLUSIVE WERE NOT SAYING TO TAKE THE INCINERA TON AND THE TOXICWASTE DUMPSOUT OFOUR CORN

MUNITIES AND PUT THEM IN WHITE COMMUNITIES WERE SAYING THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN ANYBODYS

COMMUNITY WHEN THE MOVEMENT FIRST GOT GOINGRL THINK SOME WHITES ACTUALLY BECAME AFRAID BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MOVEMENT OF RETRIBUTION IT IS NOT MOVEMENT OF RETRI

BUTIONIT IS MOVEMENT FORJUSTICE YOU CANT GETJUSTICE BY DOING AN INJUSTICE ON SOMEBODY

WEHAVE TO BE CAREFUL WE NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PITTED EACH ORAYOU WROTE TO BIG GROUPS AGAINST OTHER BACK IN 1990 WE HAD CLASSES AT THE SOUTHWEST NET

WORKIN HOWTO WRITE LOT OF OUR PEOPLE DONT KNOW HOW

AND AND IF TO OFFER CLASSES DI CONQUERED WE FIGURED WE WERE GOING LITERACY WE SHOULD AT LEAST DO SOMETHING PFODUCTIVE IT WAS VERY DIFFI ELSE WHEN YOU HAVE LIVED THROUGH SUFFERING AND HARDSHIP CULT FOR US WE SPENT LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO REMOVE THEM NOT ONLY FROM YOUR OWNPEOPLE WEKNEWTHAT THERE WOULD BE RAMIFICATIONS IT MEANT LOT TO BUT FROM ALL PEOPLES PEOPLE BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WEVE HAD THE OP BY THE WAY IM HISTORY BUFF AND WOULD LIKE TO NOTE PORTUNITY AS POOR PEOPLE AS WORKINGCLASS PEOPLE AS PEOPLE THAT THE SIERRA CLUB IS THE FIRST ONE OF THE GROUP OF TEN TO OF COLOR TO SIT DOWNAND TALK ABOUT HOWWE FEEL ABOUT THIN AND THEN ACTUALLY INVITE MEMBERSOFTHE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVE THAT TO PER RNENT TO ITS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS RVE COME TO THE ENVIRON BASICALLY WE RAISED THREE ISSUES ONE THE ISSUE OF SOME

52 MAYJUNE 1993 ICTRO PMQRGUIDE PAAE NOT AIIOTHC MAINSTREAM CNVINXIMENCAL ORGA

NIZATIONS ACCEPTING MONEY FROM THE SAME COR

PORATIONS THAT ARE KILLING OURPEOPLE SECONDLY WE HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE STAFFING OF MAINSTREAM ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE COMPOSITION OF THEIR BOARDS IF YOU PUT ONE BLACK PERSON OR BROWN PERSON OR RED PERSON OR YELLOW PERSON ON THE BOARD AND THINK 0K EVERYTHINGS GOING TO BE COOL THATS NOT WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE KIND OF FORWARD MOVEMENT THAT WE WOULD HAVE HOPED TO SEE WE KNEW NOTHING WAS GOING TO CHANGE OVERNIGHT BUT AT THE SAME TIME WEHAVE NOT SEEN THAT MOVEMENT

THE THIRD ONE IS MORE BASIC WHO IS IT YOU ARE ADVOCATING FOR IN NEW MEXICO WHERE IVE

LIVED 25 YEARS NOW THERE HAS BEEN HISTORY OF PROBLEMS AND CONFLICT BETWEEN OUR COMMUNI TIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS WERE TALKING ABOUT LAND ISSUES WATER ISSUES REGULA TIONS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN PUSHING FORWARDFOR THE PROTECTION OF WHOFOR WHAT IF ITS FOR THE PROTECTION OF US THEN HOWCOME WE HAVENT BEEN INVOLVED IN IT WHY DO WEHAVE TO HEAR SOMETHING THIRD DOWN THE LINE SIXTH DOWNTHE LINE OR NEVER DOWN THE

LINE IF IT IS TO PROTECT OUR INTERESTS THEN BRING US TO THE TABLE BECAUSE WE DO VERY FINE AT PRO TECTING OUR OWNINTERESTS

THE TRADITIONAL MOVEMENT DISTANCES ITSELF FROM CITIES

VIVIE THE SIERRA CLUB STARTED AT THE ISSUE OF EN THAT ARE EVEN LOOKING DENYING THEY VIRONMENTAL JUSICE IN THE 1970S WECOSPONSORED WITH TWO OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND THE NATIONAL URBAN THE 1978 IN DETROIT THAT PART OT ENVIROMNENT LEAGUE CONFERENCE IN BROUGHT TO GETHER 700 PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY PEOPLE OF COLOR AUTHUMY GOOD EXAMPLE OFTHE ATTITUDES OF THE MORE ESRAB AS WELL AS MORE TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO LOOK AT HOW WORK LISHED GROUPS TOWARDCOMMUNITIES OF COLOR IS BLUEPRINT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTCOULD TOGETHER WITH THE EN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH WAS SUBMITTED TO GEORGE BUSH VIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

WHEN HE TOOK OFFCE IT CONTAINED 750 DETAILED RECOMMEN UNFORTUNATELY ONCE THE REAGANBUSH ADMINISTRATION DATIONS FROM 18 ESTABLISHED ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS INCLUD CAINE IN PEOPLE WENT BACK TO PROTECTING THEIR OWNTURL HAD KIND ING PROPOSALS FOR EVERY CABINET DEPARTMENT EXCEPT TWO THE THERE BEEN CONTINUATION OF THAT OF COALITION EFFORT AT DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE THE GRASSROOTSLEVEL THINK WE WOULD BE LOT FURTHER AHEAD DEPARTMENT OF LABOR THE GROUPS COULD HAVE MADE REC TODAY THINK YOUR LETTERS WERE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY FO OMMENDATIONS ABOUT LEAD POISONING ENERGY CONSERVATION CUSED PEOPLES ATTENTION ON WORKING TOGETHER AGAIN IN PUBLIC HOUSING SITING OFAFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANS AS TO THE FUNDING ISSUE IVE SERVED FOR THREE YEARS ON PORTATION CORRIDORS OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHANDSAFETY ISSUES IN THREEPERSON COMMITTEE THAT REVIEWS EVERY CORPORATEGIFT TO THE WORKPLACE BUT THEY DIDNT IN RETROSPECT IT IS CLEAR THAT THE SIERRA CLUB OVER S1000 WEDO NOT TAKE MONEY FROM THE IGNORING THESE TWODEPARTMENTS CLEARLY REFLECTED THE MOVE OIL INDUSTRY FROM THE PAPER INDUSTRY FROM CHEMICAL COMPA MENTS RACIAL AND CLASS BIASES NIES TOBACCO COMPANIES OR MAJOR POLLUTERS IF THERE IS EVER YOUR LETTERS MADE PUBLIC WHAT LOT OF US IN SOCIAL JUSTICE ANY DOUBT ABOUT CORPORATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD WE OF THE DONT TAKE FROM EMENTS WERE FEELING AT FIRST MANY ENVIRONMEN MONEY THEM TAL GROUPS DEWED CHARGES OF RACISM BUT THEN GRADUALLY THEY THE DIVERSITY OF OUR STAFF AND BOARD IS AN ISSUE THAT CON REALIZED THAT THE CHARGES WERE SERIOUS IT WAS KIND OF WAKE CERNS THE CLUB WE DONT HAVE AN EASY FIX FOR IT BUT WERE COMMITTED THE AND UP CALL VMEN BOWDID THE SIERRA CLUB RESPOND TO TRYING TO CHANGE STARTING AT GRASSROOTS

SIERRA 53 CALHI SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING GUIDE PAGE ACROSS THE COUNUY INDUSTRIAL AND OCHCI THE LETTER THAT HO MOVEMENT

VENTED WHILE OUR SURVIVAL NEEDS AND HE EN VIRONMEIKFTAL JUSTICE LANDS FOR WEAPONS PRODUCUON TESTING SURROUND CULTURES ARE WE SUFFER FROM MOVEMENT LOOSE COALITION OF AND STORAGE CONTAMINATING IGNORED THESE BUT LED COMMUNITIES AND THE END RESULTS OF ACUONS ARE HUNDREDS JRASSVOOLR GROUPS ING PLACING MINORITY IN THE DECISION BORN OUT WORKERSIN THE MOST RADIOACTIVE NEVER FULL PARTICIPANTS BY PEOPLE TCOLOW WAS HIGHLY AND TOXIC WORK SITES INDUSTRIAL AND MALCING WHICH LEADS TO THEM CHAUEN SO THE COUNTRYS LU ENVIRON CALL YOU TO CEASE OPERA MENIAL OR2ANIZATIONS BELOW ARE EXCERPU MUNICIPAL DUMPS ARE INTENTIONALLY WE UPON IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR DIS TION IN COMMUNITIES OF COLORWITHIN 60 FII IEUAWU BY THE SOUTHWE OR PLACED AND UNTIL HAVE HIRED LEADERS FROM 1990 SO WHATS OUR CULTURAL LIFESTYLE DAYS YOU ING PROJECT ON MARCH 15 RUPTING THE EXTENT THAT DIE SIERRA OUR COMMUNITIES FUTURES THOSE COMMUNITIES TO KNOWN AS THE GROUP OF TEN THREATENING IN FIELDS AND HA THEY MAKE BETWEEN 35 AND 40 PER CLUB SIERRA CLUB LEGAL DEFENSE FUND WORKERS THE ARE DYING UP BIES BORN AS RESULT OF CENT OFYOUR ENTIRE STAFF WE ARE ASKING FRIENDS OF DIE EARTH THE WILDERNESS SOD ARE DISFIGURED NANARAL THAT THIRD WORLD LEADERS BE HIRED AX ALL NATIONALAUDUBO SOCIETY RE PESTICIDE SPRAYING ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS OFYOUR OPERATIONS ALSO PRO SOURCES DEFINSE COUNCIL ENVIRONMENTAL ALTHOUGH ORGANIZA FEDERA TIONS THEMSELVES THE OF VIDE LIST OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO DEFENSE FUND NATIONAL WRLDLII CALLING GWUP TEN OFTEN CLAIM TO OUR IN WHOMYOU FURNISH SERVICES OR THIRD UION IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE AND NATIONAL REPRESENT IN ACTIVITIES IT WORLD COMMUNITIES WHICH YOU HAVE PARKS AND CONSENIATION ASSCDATIORL TERESTS IN OBSERVING YOUR DRIVES OR AND HAS BECOME CLEAR TO US THAT YOUR ORGA ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNS ROLE IN THE DIS CONTACTS IN THOSE COMMUNITIES WEARE WRITING THIS LETTER IN THE BE NIZATIONS PLAY AN EQUAL THAT CAN OF OUR COMMUNITIES THERE IS IX IS OUR SINCERE HOPE WE LIEF THAT THROUGHDIALOGUE AND MUTUAL RUPTION DUE HAVE FRANK AND DIALOGUE WITH STRATEGIZINGWECANCREATEAGLOBAL EN CLEAR LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY BY GROUP OF OPEN TOWARDS ORGANIZATION AND OTHER NATIONAL VIRONNIENTAL MOVEMENT THAT PROTECTS TEN ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS YOUR THIRD WIRLD COMNWNIIA IN THE SOUTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IT IS OUR US ALL AND INTER THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE FOR CENTURIES PEOPLE OF COLOR IN OUR IN THE UNITED STATES AS WHOLE OPINION STATES AND THE TO RACIST AND UNITED THROUGHOUT REGION HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED NATIONAIL CONTINUE TO WORLD ARE CLEARLY AN ENDANGERED GENOCIDAL PRACTICES INCLUDING THE THEFT YOUR ORGANIZATIONS SUP ISSUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DE OF LANDS AND WATER THE MURDER OF IN PORT AND PROMOTE POLICIES THAT EMPHA SPECIES THE AND OFTHE STRUCTION ARE ISSUES OF OUR IMMEDIATE NOCENT PEOPLE AND THE DEGRADATION OF SIZE CLEANUP PRESERVATION AND SURVIVAL WEHOPE THAT OUR ENVIRONMENT MINING COMPANIES ENVIRONMENT ON THE BACKS OF WORKING LONGTERM OF COLOR WE CAN SOON WORK WITH ORGANIZA MINERALS LEAVING ECONOMICALLY PEOPLE IN GENERAL AND PEOPLE YOUR IN THE NAME OF ELIMINAT DON IN HELPING TO ASSURE THE SAFETY AND DEPRESSED COMMUNITIES AND POISONED IN PARTICULAR TAKES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AT COST WELLBEING OF ALL PEOPLES SOIL AND WATER THE US MILITARY ING ANY

THINK AS IT BE OF SCOTT YOU KNOW MY POSITION GRASSROOTS WORKING ALL THE WAYUP SHOULD NEVER QUESTION DOUGLAS ONE OFTHE OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO THOSE LETTERS THE WRITING TOKEN MINORITY ON THE BOARD OFDIRECTORS THINGS ORGANIZER LEAST THAT OF IT THAT IS ISSUE WORKEDRICHARD AT ASPECT THAT WERE TRYING TO DO IS TO ENSURE DIVERSITY AN PROJECT STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS COMMITMENT OUT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVE THROUGHOUT THE SIERRA CLUB FOR BOTH MY COMING THE RELA 12 MENT AND THE MOVEMENT IS TO RENEGOTIATE THIS PAST YEAR WE FUNDED GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING PROJ PEACE FROM BETWEEN AND BETWEEN PEOPLES AND THE ECTS PROPOSED BY SIERRA CLUB ACTIVISTS THESE RANGED TIONSHIP PEOPLES FRANCISCOS CHINA EARTH SOME OF THE BEST MODELS FOR THAT PROCESS ARE FROM NA LEADPOISONING PREVENTION EFFORT IN SAN OF THAT THE ROSEBUD TIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS THEY TEACH US THAT PART RENE TOWN TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOXIC DUMPING ON TRADI IS AND FOR PEOPLES CULTURES RE RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA WERE TRYING TO CONNECT GOTIATION MUTUALITY RESPECT FOR THE LESSONS THAT HAVE LEARNED WERE ERASING TIONAL SIERRA CLUB WORK WITH COMMUNITYBASED EFFORTS SPECT THEY THEM THEIR OF ABOUT IS FUNDAMEN AT HELLISH AND WITH GOES BODY THE TYPE OF CHANGE WERE TALKING VERY PEOPLES PACE AND THEN IN TWO OR EVEN FIVE WE ERASE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GIVE TAL AND IT WILL NOT HAPPEN ONE OR YEARS KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE SOME 10MILLION TO DISCOVER ONETENTH THE SIERRA CLUB IS HUNDRED YEARS OLD SOME BAG UNIVERSITY GRANT THATS NOT BACK TIME THINK OFWHAT THOSE PEOPLE HAD ACCUMULATED OVER EONS GAGE THAT WE CARRY FRANKLY GOES LONG WERE EFFICIENT WEVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS BUT CLEARLY NOT TO VERY OF AUTH UUY WE OFTEN FORGET THAT THERE ARE 60 MILLION PEOPLE TALLY THERE YET HEARD THAT THE SIERRA CLUB COLOR IN THE UNITED STATES SOON WE ARENT GOING TO BE MI CHAVIS WAS VERY HAPPY WHEN INDICATION OF NORITIES MORE THAN THIRD OF THE ACTUAL HAD HIRED SCOTT DOUGLAS THINK THAT WASAN ANY MORE ALREADY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT HAS IN THE CLUBS SERIOUSNESS PHYSICAL TERRITORY

54 MAYJUNE 1993 EIAR UETFR CRR PAQE 10 AS ITS DIGENOUS PEOPLE MAJORITY POPULATION LADUKE SCOURS OFAMERICA WHOOWNTHOUSANDS OF ACRES THERE NITIVE AIIIEIEINT HE OCDIE FTU1IFLSTRE IRE REIDY TO PAN WEVE ALSO HAD FEDERAL LEGISLATION INTRODUCEA FOR THE RE LADUK WE WI ARE NOT PAN OF AND DO NOT WISH TO TURN OF 50000 ACRESTUE TANIARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE BE OF THE MAINSTREAM OF AMERICA WE ARE DIFFERENT PART RIGHT NOW THE REFUGE IS PRETTY MUCH USED AS HUNTING AMERICA HAS TO COME TO AND TERMS WITH OUR DIFFERENCE GROUND FOR SPORT HUNTERS FROM MINNEAPOLIS NINE TIMES AS TO RECOGNIZE OUR NEED FOR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND SELF MANY DEER ARE TAKEN BY NONINDIANS AS BY INDIANS THERE AND DETERMINATION 40 ONLY PERCENT OF THE LAKES ARE CLOSED TO DUCK HUNTING WE

HUNT BUT ONLY FOR SUBSISTENCE WEHUNT BECAUSE WERE POOR BECAUSE WE NEED THAT FOOD BECAUSE

THATS WHAT WVEALWAYS DONE HAVE TO THAT HISTORICALLY ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE SIERRA CLUB HAVE

IL SOMETIMES OPPOSED LAND TRANSFERS BACK TO MDI ANS WERE HOPING THAT THAT DOESNT OCCUR IN OUR

CASE SO FAR ITS BEEN PRETTY GOOD CHAVI WOULD LIKE TO PAY DEFERENCE HERE TO OUR NATIVE AMERICAN SISTERS AND BROTHERS WHO

HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FOCUS THE ATTENTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT ON THE SACREDNESS OF THE AIR THE WATER THE LANDRTHE SA CREDNESS OF THE CREATION SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVE

MENTS OFTEN LEAVE SPIRITUALITY OUT BUT THE ENVI RONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTHOLDS SPIRITUALITY AS VERY KEY ELEMENT LADUKE IN MY LANGUAGE MOST NOUNS ARE ANI MATE ROCK GRIN IS ANIMATE AND MANDAMIN

CORNIS ANIMATE THEY HAVE STANDING ON THEIR OWNTHEY HAVE SPIRIT THEY ARE NOT RECOGNIZED AS OBJECTS OR RESOURCES THEY ARE INSTEAD RECOG NIZED AS VITAL LIVING THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO RE

SPECT AND HAVE RELATIONSHIP TO NATIVE PEOPLE CONSIDER THEMSELVES PART OF NATURE THERES NO SEPARATION LIKE THE ONE THAT TI NECESSARILY EXISTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL MIND UNFORTUNATELY MOST ENVIRONMENTALISM COMES

OUR OF THAT MIND NOT OUT OF THE INDIGENOUS

AFTER BILL IS ALREADY DEVELOPED SOMEONE SAYS THIS AFFECTS

MY RESERVATION IS IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA 36 MILES BY 36 FL MILES LOCATED BETWEEN BEMIDJI AND FARGO ONE OF SEVEN IAN PEOPLE WE DELLER OJIBWA RESERVATIONS IN THE NORTH WEWERE CEDED HUGE AREA UNDER OF LAND CALL THE WHITE EARTH TREATY 1867 WE FIND AN INDIAN AND SEE ITS WEALTHY LAND FULL OF LAKES PINELANDS FARMLANDS PRAIRIE AND MOST OF THE MEDICINES OUR PEOPLE HAVE USED FOR CEN TUNES THATS DONT ABOUT WHY WE HAVE IT TODAY BY 1920 PER EYFE CENT OF OUR RESERVATION WAS IN NONINDIAN HANDS SEIZED BY BUNCH OF LAND TRANSACTIONS MOSTOF OUR ILLEGAL PEOPLE WERE MIND THE CHALLENGE FACED BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS IS TO DECOL FORCED OFF THE RESERVATION AND INTO POVERTY THREEQUARTERS ONIZE THEIR INDUSTRIAL MINDS OF THEM ARE MOST NATIVE IN ITS REFUGEES AMERICANS FACT ARE AUTHAMY INTERESTING THE WAY LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WORK REFUGEES WOULD SAY MOST AFRICANAMERICANS AND LATINOS HAVE LONG OUR WORK IS ABOUT TO RECLAIM OUR LAND BASE WEVE BEEN THAT TRYING AWARE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WERE DUMPING GROUNDS TRIED HAVE HAD EVERY LEGAL RECOURSE NO SUCCESS IN THE FOR LOCALLY UNWANTED LAND USES BUT NOT UNTIL BEN CHAVIS IN COURT SO RECLAIM THAT LAND SYSTEM WE ARE TRYING TO THROUGH VENTED THE TERM ENVIRONMNENTAL RACISRNU DID WEHAVE NAME OTHER WITH PROCESSES INCLUDING NEGOTIATIONS LARGE ABSENTEE FOR IT WHEN THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST COMMISSION ON LANDHOLDERS LIKE THE POTLATCH TIMBER THE COMPANY OR BOY RACIALJUSTICE PUBLISHED TOXIC WASTE AND RACE WHICH DOCU

55 CALHI SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORAANIZING GUIDE PAGE 11 MENTED THE DISPROPORTIONATE SATING OF HAZ ARDOUSWASTE FACILITIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES

EVERYONE KNEWRIGHT AWAY WHAT THEY WERE ULK

IRIG ABOUT

FOR NATIVE AMERICANS SUBJECTED TO TOXIC AND HAZARDOUSWASTE FACILITIES WERE TALKING ABOUT VERY DETRIMENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS FOR CX AMPLE NATIVE AMERICAN INFANTS SUFFER FROM THE HIGHEST RATES OF SUDDENINFANTDEATH SYN DROMEALSO KNO NAS CRIB DEATH IN THE COUN

II TRY DOCTORS DONC KNOWWHY NATIVE AMERICANS ARE AFFLICTED MORE THANANY OTHER GROUP BUT CX POSURE TO ENVIRONMENTAL POISONS CANT HELP LADUKE THERE HAVE BEEN HUNDRED SEPARATE PROPOSALS TO DUMP TOXIC WASTES ON NATIVE CORN MUNITIES SEE THEIR MOTHERS KEEPERS MARCHAPRIL FIFTEEN OF THE 18 FEDERAL RESEARCH FOR MONITORED GRANTS RETRIEVABLE STORAGE FACIL ITIES FOR NUCLEAR WASTES WENT TO INDIAN RESER VATIONS ONETHIRD OF ALL LOWSULFUR COAL AND TWOTHIRDS OF THE URANIUM MINED IN THIS COUN TRY ARE ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS WEHAVE NUCLEAR

RADIATION ALL OVER OUR LAND BUT NO MAJOR ENVI RONMENTA GROUP IN THIS COUNTRY HAS URANIUM CAMPAIGN NO ENVIRONMENTAL MAJOR GROUP IN THIS COUNTRY HAS DEALT CONSCIOUSLY WITH THE ISSUES OF NATIVE PEOPLE OUR COMMUNITIES ARE BEARING THE BRUNT OF AMERICAS ENERGY POLICY THE DESTROYERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ARE ALSO THE

OF BIG HEATING BILLS AND EVEN OF DESTROYERS OUR NEIGHBOR THOUGH PEOPLE COLOR DRIVE FEWER VEHICLE MILES THAN OTHER PER YEAR CITY DWELLERS FREE WAYS OFTEN CUT THEIR COMMUNITIES IN OODS AND HALF DESTROYING THEIR COMMUNITIES ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIVES IN ADDITION TO EXPOSING THEM TO DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF AIR POLLUTION YET NO ONE HAS SEEN FIT TO ADDRESS OUR IN CONCERNS THEIR MYOWN WORKIN THE URBAN HABITAT PROGRAM FOCUSES ON POLICYMAKING THESE ISSUES TRYING TO BUILD MULTICULTURAL URBAN ENVIRON AITHOMY FEW PEOPLE REALIZE HOW MUCH COMMUNITIES OF MENTAL LEADERSHIP IM SORRY THAT WE HAVENT HEARD MUCH COLOR SUFFER FROM BAD YET ENERGY POLICIES FROM INAPPROPRIATE TODAY ABOUT THE CITIES HISTORICALLY PEOPLE OF COLORHAVE BEEN HYDROELECTRIC DAMS AND NUCLEAR POWER TO PROJECTS OVER CONCENTRATED IN BARRIOS AND GHETTOS WITHOUT RELIANCE ADEQUATE NEIGH ON FOSSIL FUELS STILL NAVAJO TEENAGERS SUFFER FROM RA BORHOOD SERVICES SCHOOLS OR DIATION OPEN SPACE THIS CONCENTRA EXPOSURE FROM URANIUM MINING SEVERAL YEARS BACK TION IS THE RESULT OF LONG OF THE HISTORY DISCRIMINATION CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING IN OAKLAND FOUND THINK BACK TO HOW CHINATOWNS WERE STARTED THAT THEY WERE THESE EXPOSURES WERE CAUSING CANCER AT 17 TIMES THE RATE ONLY PLACE THAT CHINCSE COULD THE PEOPLE WORKAND CONGRE NATIONAL AVERAGE AND GATE HAVE AN UNTIL ITS IDENTITY UP THE EARLY 1960S CHINESE NOT JUST NUCLEAR ENERGY DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS IMMIGRATION WAS GREATLY RESTRICTED AND CHINESE TENDED TO ALSO PLACES BURDENS ON OUR COMMUNITIES FROM THE EXTRAC SETTLE ALONG THE TWO COASTS WHERE TION OF THEY HAD GAINED ENTRY SINCE FOSSIL FUELS TO THEIR DISTRIBUTION USE AND OUR WASTE THEY WERE CONSIDERED INFERIOR TO CAUCASIANS NO ONE WANTED COMMUNITIES FEWER GET BENEFITS AND PAY GREATER TO WORKWITH PRICE THEM SO THEY DEVELOPED THEIR LAUNDRIES AND IN THE FOUR STRIPMINING CORNERS REGION FOR USERS THEIR ENERGY RESTAURANTS FRANKLY FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY CREATES NATIONAL SACRIFICE ZONE ON ITS BEEN DIFFERENT SINCE THE AND 70S NOWTHERE ARE SACRED NATIVE LANDS WITHOUT EVEN FOR PROVIDING LOCAL ENERGY VIETNAMESE CAMBODIANS AND NEEDS LAOTIANS WHOHAVE COME NOT PBOR PEOPLE OFCOLOR IN THE CITIES USE UP TO 35 PERCENT JUST TO SEEK BETTER FUTURE BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SUB OF THEIR INCOME TO PURCHASE RENTERS ENERGY GET NONE OF THE TO JECTED POLITICAL PERSECUTION IN THEIR NATIVE LANDS MANY OF INCENTIVES TO WEATHERIZE THEIR HOMES BUT THEY ARE STUCK WITH THEM TEND TO BE AND POOR LESS WELLEDUCATED THEY HAVE MORE 56 MAYJUNT 2993 CULTURAL DIRNCULTY IDENTIFYING NICHE FOR THEMSELVES HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PROVIDING GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS IN SAN THE CHINESE FRANCISCO ARE VERY WELLORGANIZED POUT THE POSSIBILITY OCBRINGING ISSUES TO THE TABLE THATS WHAT ITS IS THE ICALLY AS JAPANESE COMMUNITY BUT AMONGST LAOTIANS ALL ABOUT ITS ABOUT US SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES ITS NOT ABOUT AND CAMBODIANS AT HAS BEEN MUCH MORE DIFFICULT IN ORDER WHATS TAKING PLACE UNDER THE TABLE ITS ABOUT WHATS TAKING FOR THEM TO GET ATTENTION PAID TO URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES PLACE ON TOP LIKE RODENT CONTROL AND LEAD FIRST DE POISONING THEY MUST LADAKE IVE BEEN WORKING FOR 16 YEARS ON NATIVE ENVIRON VELOP THAT POLITICAL MENTAL POWER ISSUES WITH GROUPSTHAT HAVE FIVE MEMBERS IN THE THINK ITS ANTHOMY VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND AND MIDDLE OF THE NAVAJO RESERVATION TO INNU FROM NORTHERN TO OUR HISTORY WHEN TALK ABOUT OF LABRADOR HAVE WE HISTORY WHO BEEN FIGHTING THE SITING OF MILIURY BASE WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT ONION BECAUSE AND BUNCH OF DAMS PEELING AN UP THERE THOSE GROUPS ARE FRONTLINE WE TO SEE CONNECTIONS THAT IM BEGIN WE DIDNT SEE BEFORE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS BUT THEY ARE SEEN INSTEAD AS NATIVE THINKING ABOUT WHO THOREAU WAS IMPRISONED FOR PROTEST GROUPS BECAUSE THE BIG ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTWANTS TO THE MEDCANAMERICAN THE ING WARWHICH RELATES TO TREATY POSITION ITSELF CLEARLY AS TIW ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT WE OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO OR MARTIN LUTHER WHOWAS SHOT NEED TO BROADEN THE DEFINITION AND KING TO RECOGNIZE THESE GRASS IN MEMPHIS PROTECTING WORKERS CONNECTIONS ROOTS THAT HAVE BEEN GARBAGE THE GROUPS STRU OVER THESE ISSUES FOR BETWEEN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE ENVIRON

MENTAL MOVEMENT ARE REALLY QUITE RICH LADUKS IN OURCASE UNFORTUNATELY THE TROUBLE IS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS HAVE HISTORICALLY COME FROM EUROCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE THAT IS NOT AN INCLUSIVE

PERSPECTIVE AND ITS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN RELATE TO MANY TIMES IN FACT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS MAKE DE CISIONS THAT AFFECT OTHER COMMUNITIES WITHOUT THE INPUT OF THOSE COMMUNITIES ONE OF THEM EVEN PUR CHASED LAND ON OUR RESERVATION WITHOUT EVER TALKING TO US ABOUT IT AND RESTRICTED OUR USE OF AN AREA THAT HAD MEDICINAL PLANTS IN DOUGLAS ALABAMA WE HAVE THE LARGEST HAZARDOUS

WASTE DUMP IN THE COUNTRY AT PLACE CALLED ERNELLE PUT IN ALABAMA BECAUSE WHITE ENVIRONMENTAL ISTS NEGOTIATED THE SITE WITH CHEMICAL WASTE MAN AGEMENT WITHOUT TALKING TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHICH WAS GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE BRICK FACTORY THERE THESE GUYS HAD THE AU DACITY TO NEGOTIATE THAT COUNTYS FUTUREAND STILL THINK THEY WERE DOING IT IN OUR INTEREST

MOORE AFTER OUR LETTER WENT OUT WE GOT CALLS FROM COMMUNITIES ALL OVER NORTHERN NEW MEXICO THANK

ING US FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY SAID LEGISLATORS CALLED AND US SAID WEREDEVELOPING BILL DO YOU WANT TO COME TO THE MEETING AND HELP US BECAUSE WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS IS THAT AFTER THE BILL IS ALREADY

DEVELOPED SOMEONE SAYS THIS BILL AFFECTS SOME IN DIAN PEOPLEWE BETTER FIND AN INDIAN PERSON AND SEE

UNFORTUNATELY MOST ENVIRONMENTALISM COMES OUT OF

THE INDUSTRIAL MIND NOT THESE YEARS WHATWE NEED IS PLACE AT THE TABLE ATBOMY WITH ITS FOCUS ON WILDERNESS THE TRADITIONAL ENVI ONMENTAL THE ININD MOVEMENT ON THE ONE HAND PRETENDS THERE WERE INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS AND FORESTS ON THE OTHER IT DISTANCES ITSELF FROM THE CITIES DENY HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT YOU KNOWHOW IT COMES GOESIT ON ING THAT THEY ARE PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT ITS INTERESTING DOWNTHROUGH THE FAX MACHINE AND HAVE 15 MINUTES TO WHAT YOU WE TALK ABOUT AND WHAT WE AVOID TALKING ABOUT FOR CX DECIDE WEDLIKE TO GIVE MORE TIME BUT WERE IN IN YOU HURRY AMPLE THIS ROUNDTABLE AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SIERRA CUR ITS TO TO SENATOR SOANDSA GOT GO CLUB IS OCCURS TO ME THAT WE AS PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE HAD

SIERRA 57 CALHI SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZINQ GUIDE PAGE 13 ONLY PROBLEM AS THE INCINERATOR AF MAN WE GOT RID OF THE INCINERATOR FINE THE WEDBE INCINERATOR IS THE MERELY EXTERNAL REFLECTION OF WHOLE HOST OF PROBLEMS AUTH THE OMY PEOPLE THAT WORK WITH YOUNG PEO PLE DONT MAKE ARTIFICIAL DIVISIONS BETWEEN HOMI DDE AN THE INNER CITY GANG VIOLENCE THAT COME FROM INCINERATORS AND THE SLAUGHTER OF DOLPHINS THEY DONT MAKE ALL THESE DISTINCTIONS THAT OTHER DO PEOPLE WHEN THEY HAVE BUDGETS TO SUBMIT TO FOUNDATIONS

HOURS SOMETIMES THE ENVIRONMENTAL BIG GROUPS SEEM TO THINK THAT WERE IMAGINING THINGS IF YOU CHOOSE YOU CAN COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WERE

JUST BUNCH OF CRAZY PEOPLE WHOARE TRYING TO RAISE SOME HELL AND GET OUR NAMES IN THE PAPER AND YOU WOULD BE MAKING VERY SERIOUS MISTAKE HEAR RICHARD IVE YET TO ANYBODY HERE IN THE SIERRA CLUB DIFFER WITH YOU ON THE ISSUES THINK YOU COULD PROBABLY CITE SOME EXAMPLES BUT OVERALL THE KINDS OF THAT THINGS YOURE TALKING ABOUT ARE EX ACTLY THE SAME TYPES OF THINGS THAT SIERRA CLUB AC

TIVISTS AT ALL LEVELS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT NO ONE

WANTS MORE LEAD PAINT WERE NOT PUSHING FOR MORE LANDFILL DUMPS WERE NOT PUSHING FOR INCINERATION WE WERE THE ONES WHO GOT 10 MILLION FOR JOB RE TRAINING INTO THE CLEAN AIR ACT SELDOM YOU GO TO LOWINCOME BLACK CONIMUNITY

VERY LITTLE TO SAY ABOUT NATURE SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK THAT OFCOLOR ARE INSENSITIVE TO AND WHERE THE PEOPLE PLANTS ANIMALS THAT WE ONLY PROBLEM DONT CARE ABOUT THE BIOSPHERE CHAVIS ITS AGREE IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THROUGH LENS IS THE INCINERATOR THAT DOESNT FILTER NATURE OUT OFTHIS DISCUSSION ONE OF THE

THINGS THAT HAS EMERGED IS THE BIFURCATION BETWEEN MOORELETS WANTING NOT ACT AS THOUGH WHAT WERE SAYING IS NOT RE TO ANIMAL AND THE HUMAN PROTECT SPECIES PROTECTING SPECIES ALITY THE SIERRA CLUB HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE HAS BEEN CO THAT IS FALSE BIFURCATION THE NOTION THAT CAN YOU PROTECT CONSPIRATOR IN ATTEMPTING TO TAKE AWAY RESOURCES FROM OUR THE FROM OZONE LAYER FURTHER DETERIORATION WITHOUT COMMUNITIES LIKE SAID SEEING WE IN OUR LETTER YOUR ORGANIZATIONS THE DEGRADATION IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THE BARRIOS AND THE ARE SUPPORTING POLICIES THAT EMPHASIZE THE CLEANUP AND GHETTOS IS FALSE NOTION OF PRESERVATION THE ENVIRONMENT ON THE BACKS OF WORKING DOUGLAS MY JOB ASSIGNMENT IN BIRMINGHAM IS TO ASSIST AND PEOPLE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN PARTICULAR WHEN YOU COME GRASSROOTS GROUPS WORKING AGAINST THE IMPOSITION INTO OUR OFINJUS COMMUNITIES TALKING ABOUT CLOSING DOWNTHE PLANT TICE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD AS WENT TO THOSE COMMU WHOS IN WORKING THE PLANT WEVE HAD TO CLOSE DOWNPLANTS NITIES NOTICED THAT THE THEY DIDNT SEPARATE HAZARDOUS LET ME TELL THAT FINAL YOU IN THE ANALYSIS THAT PLANT MAY HAVE WASTE INCINERATOR FROM THE FACT THAT LEAD IS NOT TO ITS POISONING GO KILLED PEOPLE INSIDE AND HAS ALSO POISONED OUR DEALT WITH IN THEIR SCHOOLS FROM THE FACT THAT BEING THEIR GROUNDWATERAND OUR AIR AND OUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE BUT WE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN UNDERFUNDED THAT THEY HAVE NO WENT DAY CARE THROUGH PROCESS FIRST ATTEMPTING TO BRING WORKERS NO JOBS NO ACCESS TO JOBS THEY DONT SEPARATE IT BECAUSE INTO THE DECISION THEIR OF LIFE AS WHOLE IS SO WHO QUALITY GOING DOWN WAS THINK WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WE DO NOT ALLOW OURSELVES WHEN CAME TO VISIT THEIR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WAS TO BE PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHERPEOPLE OF COLOR SHOULD NOT SCOTT DOUGLAS THE ENVIRONMENTALIST OR SCOTT THE BE DIVIDED AND DOUGLAS CONQUERED ALL OF US CARE ABOUT JOBS BE IT GETOUTTHEVOTE GUY THESE PROBLEMS ARE ALL WRAPPED SIERRA CLUB UP PEOPLE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHOEVER BUT TOGETHER AND AT TEACHES US VERY LESSON WHAT IS IMPORTANT OPPRESSED HAPPENING FRANKLY IS THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE COMPARTMENTALIZED PROBLEMS VERY SEL SPLIT BETWEENJOBS AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND IF BELIEVE DOM YOU DO YOU GO TO LOWINCOME BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE CONTINUED ON PAGE 90

58 MAYJUNE 1993 SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING GUIDE PAGE 14 BE ABLE CO PROCC OURSELVES IG IC WOULD CXPIO THU HC HISWRY OF PLACE AT THT TABLE UNLESS WE CAN AMRNUNTZC OURSELVES RACISM IN THE WORLD NOT ONLY IN THE THCRC TOOL APLNST IT ALWAYS THAT CAN UNITED SUTES APARZHCID IN SOUTH CETARNIEDFROEW PDT BE USED US AFRICA APANSI CXISTS NOT JUST BECAUSE SOME HAS RACISM IS WHAT MAKES OC THAT RHCN MAANSCRC AMERICA WHITCS IN SOUTH AFRICA DONT LIKE BLACK CIVIL IN THEIR OWN LANDS WE HAVE SU IN DIVADINT THE RIGHTS PEOPLE PEOPLE ITS BECAUSE SOME WHITES IN AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIETY THAT MAKES FOREIGNERS OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA MOVEMENT WANT TO LIVE IN PRI MOVEMENT NATIVE AMERICANS WRCVERY SELECTIVE POSITION AND TAKE THE DIAMONDS AND

I1 ABOUT DOUGLAS THIS AS IMPORTANT PEOPLE WHO WE MAKE FOREIGNERS OF NOW THE GOLD AND THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF WILL CHOOSE SAFE CLEAN WITH OUR UNTIL IVCN CHOICE IMMIGRATION POLICY WE THE PEOPLE RACISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND AIR OVER ECONOMICS ADDRESS THE OF THAT FEAR USED WATER LAND BEGIN TO USE TO TOJUSTIF THE RAPE OF THE ENVIRON IF CHOICE TO ACT LIKE BUT ONLY THEYRE GIVEN GET PEOPLE LEMMINGS THEY MENT AND THE RAPE OF PEOPLE AND TO DE CHOICE IN WILL OFT THE THEYRE NOT GIVEN PLACES STAMPEDE CLIFF KILLING PRWE THEM OFECONORNIC RIGLNS LIKE SUMTER AJABAMA WHERE THEMSELVES THEIR FAMILIES THEIR INHERI ONE OF THE COUNTS THINGS IVE COME TO AP YOU CAN LOSE YOUR LIVELIHOODAND TANCE AND THEIR LEGACY BECAUSE THEYVE PRECIATE IN DEALING WITH THE ENVIRON SOMETIMES LIFEIF OUT BEEN YOUR YOU SPEAK SUCCESSFULLY PANICKED MENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT IS PATIENCE THE CHAVIS THE DENIAL OF RACISM IN THIS WE AGAINST BIGGEST POLLUTERS PEOPLE SHOULD BE IMPATIENT WITH INJUSTICE ARENT CHOOSING BETWEEN JOBS AND THE COUNTRY PERPETUATES IT ONE OF THE WE HAVE TO CONFRONT IT WE HAVE TO CHAL

ENVIRONMENT THEYRE CHOOSING BE THINGS THAT WE ARE DEMANDING IN THE LENGE IT BUT WE HAVE TO BE PATIENT WITH DEATHTHEIR TWEEN JOBS ARE KILLING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT IS THE VICTIMS OF INJUSTICETHERE WILL NOT THEMAND UNEMPLOYMENT ITS SICK COMING TO GRIPS WITH THE PHENOMENON BE AN OVERNIGHT CURE WORKERS CHOICE THE ARE CHOOSING EARLY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND COMING ITS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE ENVIRON DEATH FAMILIES SO THEIR CAN EAT THEY TO GRIPS WITH THE BROADER PHENOMENON MENTAL AGENDA WE DEVELOP IS ONE THAT KNOWTHEYRE GOING TO DIE OF RACISM IN GENERAL YOU HAVE TO UN IS DEVELOPED WITH COMMUNITIES OF THIS IS THE SICKNESS WERE UP AGAINST DERSTAND THAT RACISM IS NOT NATURAL COLOR NOT IMPOSED ON THEM BUT RATHER

THIS IS THE SAME SICKNESS AS RACISM THERES FOR RACISM IT IN PURPOSE SERVES FORGED TOGETHER THE SPIRIT OF MUTUAL ABLE ADDRESS UNTIL WERE TO IT WE WONT THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THOSE WHO RESPECT AND TRUST THATS VERY HARD

SEAC RESOURCES

CAMPAIGNS JOIN OTHER STUDENTS IN UNIFIED ACTION TO ACHIEVE VICTORY NEWSLETTERS THE NATIONAL MONTHLY THRESHOLD AND THE REGIONAL

FIELD ORGANIZING VISITS BY TRAINED ORGANIZERS TO HELP YOUR GROUP GROW IN STRENGTH AND NUMBERS CONFERENCES TRAININGS AND STRATEGY SESSIONS MEET OTHER STUDENT ACTIVISTS LEARN SKILLS AND PLAN ACTION

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BUDDY PROGRAM LINKS SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE MUTUAL SUPPORT

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CALHI SEAC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GUIDE ORGANIZING PAGE 15 THAT TO SITE VIRONMENT ARE THE OC THIS 100411 HERE LAKE TRIBAL COUFLCIIS ARE TRYING DESTROYERS TO DO BE IT IN OR THING AND NOT TO DUMPS BUT WIUT CFLVI1OFL FLCI OUR COMMU1ICC ANYPLACE ELSE LTS HARD CRY TO CO NEED TO DO IS SHORC UP FM VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THC CWTU TO TELL THIS MENU DORNARUTC HARD NOT PEOPLE GROUPS TRADITIONAL PEOPLE TO WHICH WE CAN CONTINUE TO HTIILD TLI BE DORIC THEIR RELATIONS WITH AS HOW IT SHOULD DONT SUB ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVCMCNT TRT FACE IN BECAUSC TRADITIONAL PEOPLE DOUGLAS ONC OT THE PROBLEMS OF THE GRASSROOTSUP FL NOT FAD CLIT THE TROOPS WORKING SCRIBE TO THE ETHICS POLLUTION TRYING TO INCREASE NATURE CONSER IS NOT MOMENTARY BLIP ON THE AAL ISSUES WITHIN CHAVIS SAID TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ON OF THIS IF REALLY JUSTICE GRAPH NATION BUT AN HAVE LITTLE WHILE YOU THE SIERRA CLUB IS THAT WE DONT VANCY AGO THEN FORT THAT WILL HAVE VERY LONGTERM IM AROUND WHEN WANT TO CONSERVE THE EARTH JOIN ENOUGH ACTIVISTS TO GO MOVEMENT PLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR NATIUHI CLUB TWO FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GOT THE SIERRA JOB FUTURE OF THAT IS AND THE OUR WORLD BECAUSE THIS IS THE MOVEMENT MINE BOTH OF THEM EUROPEANAMEN OF THE IN TO CONSTRAIN THE DESCROYERR CANS WALKED UP TO ME BIRMINGHAM GOING OF THE EN THE IM EARTH BECAUSE THE DESTROYERS AND SAID IM GLAD YOU GOT JOB MEMBER OF THE SIERRA CLUB SAID YOU ARE NEVER KNEWTHA THE FIRST ACTIVE ONE WAS WOMANWHOIS VERY AN LOWINCOME HOUSING SHES TECHNICAL ASSISTANT SHE TEACHES PEOPLE TO READ CL3E CAN THROUGH HUD REGULATIONS SOTH ALIERCHANDIS ACCESS SOME THESE CRAZY GRANTS THE 7C OTHER ONE IS CHURCHRELARED PERSON WHO WORKS WITH FAMILIES ABOUT TO BE

EVICTED PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD

UNLESS THIS AS HOUSING AND UTILITIES IN BULK FOR FUNDRAISING COINCIDENCE BET THERE ARE VERY RARE BUY SOME OTHER FOLKS IN THE PRESENT RNERN CONNECTIONS BERSHIP WHO HAVE DAILY DONT WITH PEOPLE IN THE STRU THEY CLUB BECAUSE BUTTONS BRING IT TO THE SIERRA THATS NOT THE AGENDA EACH 50 FOR 30 OR MORE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE SIERRA WHAT CLUB DID SURVEY TO DETERMINE STICKERS THE MEMBERS ACTIVE IN EACH S50 FOR 30 OR MORE CONSERVATION 75 NOT DOING THE TRADITIONAL COULD FIND THAT OUT YOUD ISSUES IF YOU VITUVI IL CONNECTION ALSO FIND OUT YOURPOINTS TSHIRTS WE WITH THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY CONTACT THE NATIONAL OFFICE FOR PRICES AND CHOICES HAVE THE SKILLS INHOUSE BUT THEYJUST HAVENT BEEN PULLED TOGETHERYET CAMPUS ECOLOGY LADUKE WE HAVE TOTALLY COMMONAS HAVE TO EVALUATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUES BUT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS TO COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE LAST MEMBERS 15 FOR EMBRACE BROADER POSITION YEAR IMPACT OF YOUR CAMPUS 10 FOR DIRECTORS THE GREENPEACE BOARD OF NONMEMBERS IN OF THE ADOPTED POSITION SUPPORT OF NATIVE PEOPLE THE SOVEREIGNTY GUIDE SIMILAR SEAC ORGANIZING SIERRA CLUB SHOULD ADOPT PO FREE WITH NEED TO NOT MORE SKILLS FOR MORE ACTIVISM COMES ICY ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS OF LAND FOR MEMBERS 10 FOR NON FEEL THREATENED BY THE TAKING SEAC GROUP MEMBERSHIP DOMAIN AND OUT OF THE SOCALLED PUBLIC MEMBERS NATIVE INSTEAD RETURNING IT TO PEOPLE THAT OUR TRADI THEY NEED TO RECOGNIZE BEEN SEAC MEMBERSHIPS TIONAL STEWARDSHIP OF LAND HAS TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE INDIVIDUALS ARE 15 FOR YEAR VERY SOUND ABLE TO RESTORE OUR TRADITIONAL VALUES GROUPS ARE 35 100 FOR YEAR

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