Sentences with phrase «environmental justice movements»

Dakin has also been an instrumental and sustaining figure over many decades in family and indigenous farmers» rights, nuclear disarmament, and environmental justice movements.

He studies environmental justice movements and was an advisor on early stages of developing the new general plan.

Despite having had an African - American majority on the city council since 1988, ethnic communities had little voice in local politics, according to Corburn and others who follow the environmental justice movement in Richmond.

Richmond's environmental justice movement stretches back more than a quarter - century, making it one of the oldest in the country.

«These are environmental sacrifice zones that the environmental justice movement has been fighting for 30 years,» said Robert Bullard, dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, who is considered the «father» of environmental justice.

Climate change is adding a new dimension to the three - decades - old environmental justice movement.

The United Church of Christ — a pioneer in the environmental justice movement in the early 1980s when it reported on the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in poor, black neighborhoods — has turned much of its attention to climate change.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

Dr. Robert Bullard (who is featured in NWEI's Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability course book) is often referred to as the «father of the environmental justice movement.»

And, as Dr. Bullard and the environmental justice movement remind us, «once we talk about people we have to talk about justice and equality.»

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

We spent three beautiful days together to educate, inspire and strategize with one another, including a powerful plenary on the history of the environmental justice movement, some of which we captured on film.

Miya has an extensive background in community organizing, campaign strategy, leadership development and training, organizational development, and fundraising, and a long history of working in the environmental justice movement.

The report concludes, «Ensuring that all citizens have a reliable supply of clean and affordable energy would represent a major step forward for the Environmental Justice movement in mitigating the effects of fossil fuel based power plants on low - income and minority communities.»

If it is to have any sustained political power, «the climate movement is going to be an environmental justice movement,» Kelley says.

On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the movement to end mountaintop removal mining and the environmental justice movement at large lost one of its most dedicated and inspired leaders, Larry Gibson.

As defined by Dr. Bullard, «The environmental justice movement has basically redefined what environmentalism is all about.

PLAN is seeking a student that is inspired to build or develop a project that is focused on the intersectional framework of environmental justice movement and broader social justice work.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.

Not exact matches

We have been deeply involved in movements for abolition, suffrage, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and now we are at the forefront of the movement in the church for LGBTQ inclusion.

Though the champions of «environmental justice» may not realize the Pandora's Box that they have opened, the shift in the ecology movement from a focus on science to radical egalitarianism should come as no surprise.

But however influential Schumacher's work may have been a decade ago, Rubin would have done better to offer a detailed analysis of the current strains influencing environmentalism, including «environmental justice» or the animal rights movement.

Conferences during the early days of the environmental movement were often punctuated by sharp exchanges between environmentalists and the advocates of justice for the poor.

The answers varied enormously and reflected the wonderful diversity that is the fair food movement, but they can all be distilled into three basic groups that revolve around environmental, social and economic justice.

3 interviews looking at the climate crisis from 3 angles: Medea Benjamin of Code Pink talks about the links between the peace movement and the climate justice movement — and how Code Pink started as an Environmental group -

These activists come from the environmental movement, the rank and file of the unions, the movement for criminal justice reform and many other disparate progressive causes.

We have been talking to the administrator and her office for the past year about the long - term implication of the growth in ports and goods movement, and what that means not just for those [coastal] environmental justice communities... but how it's likely to impact other [inland] communities that could become environmental justice communities.

In this paper are described some educationals movement seeking to show that an integrated view between them is a more appropriate way to respond to current and future challenges with greater justice and environmental sustainability.

Across the country there is a growing movement being led by students who are working with adults from their communities and schools to contribute to school improvement by calling for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in schools.

Supporters say that the movement has splintered off to create subgroups that continue the fight in the fields of healthcare and environmental justice among others.

This module builds on Video Module 1 by showing how Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt movement mobilized citizens to stand up to their government and demand social and environmental justice.

It is a deeply distressing and painful loss, not only to the environmental movement globally but also to the social justice movement.

Nascent movements in sustainability, environmental justice, and cultural and social inclusivity set the tone of scholarly and creative conversation on college campuses.

The seeds to all of the great environmental and social justice movements were planted long, long ago so let's just take a minute to honor all the great men and women over the past several thousands of years who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could be here right now reading blogs about it on our laptops at work.

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Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon...

I was born at a time when youth were concerned with other fundamental rights, like access to sustainable resources and environmental justice, led a legislative and Earth Day movement that reconstructed our government's role over natural resources.

«Environmental justice» isn't only about what is put in whose backyard — it's the future of the environmenEnvironmental justice» isn't only about what is put in whose backyard — it's the future of the environmentalenvironmental movement.

He co-edited Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (2005) with David Pellow, and is the author of Agency, Democracy, and Nature: U.S. Environmental Movements from a Critical Theory Perspective (2000).

We did so by building a humanistic environmental movement demanding energy justice for all.

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon in their arsenal: protest.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

In the midst of it all, I sat down with Jessy Tolkan, who, as one of the founders of the Energy Action Coalition, the coalition of 50 youth - led environmental and social justice organizations behind Power Shift, has had a front - row seat to the evolution of the event — and the youth climate movement.

The environmental justice (EJ) movement seeks to change that by giving disenfranchised communities — often communities of color — a voice and empowering them to organize and get involved in decision making processes.

The Green Sanctuary Program provides structure, leadership and support, in broad collaboration, for the UU faith community to engage in an ambitious Environmental Justice and Climate Justice movement that seeks to live fully our seventh principle and achieve our vision of a viable and just world for all.

Help connect UUs together working on the front lines of environmental and climate justice work, thus building movement capacity and collaboration for effective action