by Michel Gelobter, et al
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Standing on Whose Shoulders?
Why race and class matter to the environmental movement 3
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago This piece is excerpted from the essay "The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics in the 21st Century." The full essay can be found here.
Elvis was a hero to most,
but he never meant shit to me ...
-- Public Enemy, 1989
Activists of color may
not want to stand on
John Muir's shoulders.Environmentalism in the United States has always been as diverse as our country itself. In the 19th century, for example, African-American abolitionists fought slavery as well as the use of arsenic in tobacco… Read More
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