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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Johnson in Law Bern Johnson, environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions		06 Oct 2006	InterActivist
Bern Johnson, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide. What can be done to prevent the polluting of poor countries by richer ones, such as the recent toxic scandal in Ivory Coast? -- Juliette Hauville, Bologna, Italy The key is to empower people to protect themselves and their environment. ELAW gives partners in less-industrialized countries the legal and scientific tools they need to challenge polluters. W ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

A Bern Talking-To Bern Johnson, head of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, answers Grist's questions		02 Oct 2006	InterActivist
What work do you do? I'm executive director of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide. What does your organization do? ELAW helps grassroots lawyers around the world protect human rights and the environment. We're working with partners in 70 countries and helping them challenge environmental abuses, enforce environmental laws, give communities a voice about the environment, a ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

There's Something About Terry Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers' questions		23 Jun 2006	InterActivist
Bryant Terry, founder of b-healthy. What do you think about Wal-Mart offering organic products? -- Haven Bourque, San Francisco, Calif. That's the million-dollar question. Jumping on the organic bandwagon will probably mean higher profits for Wal-Mart, so they gladly carry products with the organic seal. But it's important to remember that Wal-Mart has very little concern for public healt ...
Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Ay, There's the Grub Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers Grist's questions		19 Jun 2006	InterActivist
Bryant Terry. What work do you do? I've committed myself to feeding people; illuminating the connections between poverty, malnutrition, and institutional racism; and working to create a more just and sustainable food system for everyone. b-healthy gets teenagers cooking. In 2001, I founded b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a New York City-based food-justice organization ma ...
Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Docket Man John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions		26 May 2006	InterActivist
John Suttles, Southern Environmental Law Center. Would you recommend entering the law profession with the intention of becoming a public-interest attorney? There already seem to be a flood of people with the exact same idea. Can someone realistically earn a living as a public-interest lawyer? -- Jesse Langdon, Seattle, Wash. The short answer is: "yeah, but it ain't necessarily easy." Of c ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics)

The South Will Sue Again John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions		22 May 2006	InterActivist
John Suttles. What work do you do? I'm a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. How does it relate to the environment? For the past 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center -- the biggest environmental organization headquartered in the Southeast -- has used the full power of the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands, and livabl ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics)

SWOP and Go Tomasita González, environmental-justice organizer, answers readers' questions		10 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita González, of SouthWest Organizing Project. Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and probably other cities and towns in New Mexico, are seeing lots of development of housing for new residents. What are the environmental implications? How seriously is the water supply strained? Are underprivileged or minority communities affected? -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Thanks for the question ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

González in 60 Seconds Tomasita González, environmental-justice organizer, answers Grist's questions		06 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita González. What work do you do? I work as a community organizer at SouthWest Organizing Project, based in Albuquerque, N.M. What does your organization do? For over a quarter century, SWOP has worked to build an environmental-justice movement in disenfranchised, working, and people-of-color communities. In the '90s, we sought to challenge the mainstream "Group of Ten" ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

Laws and Effect Jay Tutchton, head of environmental law clinic, answers readers' questions		23 Sep 2005	InterActivist
Jay Tutchton, head of the Environmental Law Clinical Partnership. Have you encountered government resistance and hostility to the work that your clinic does? -- Evelyn Goss, Austin, Texas Frequently. The government and industry groups have long recognized that there is little distinction between having no environmental laws and having environmental laws that are not enforced. They understand ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Law & Order: Environmental Victims Unit Jay Tutchton, head of environmental law clinic, answers Grist's questions		19 Sep 2005	InterActivist
Jay Tutchton. What work do you do? I am the director of the Environmental Law Clinical Partnership at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. We introduce law students to the world of public-interest environmental litigation and train them in the basic skills of the trade, and we file the best lawsuits we can on behalf of our clients to advance environmental p ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Spies Like Him Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers readers' questions		29 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Allan Thornton, Environmental Investigation Agency. Is the investigation of environmental crime as cool as it sounds? I'm picturing a foggy night in a dimly lit warehouse meeting a suited man smoking a cigarette. Do you ever encounter such nefarious characters and situations? -- Thad Miller, New York, N.Y. It's less of a film-noir scene, but painstaking research and extensive long-range targeting ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions		25 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions 25 Apr 2005 Allan Thornton. What work do you do? I run the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit environmental group with offices in Washington, D.C., and London. I generally oversee the strategic development of the organization, which includes targeting research, deploying investigative teams to obtain documentary evidence, and exposing environmental crimes; I work in close cooperation wit ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

Sze Matters Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers readers' questions		19 Nov 2004	InterActivist
Julie Sze, professor in American Studies at U.C.-Davis Where do you see the environmental-justice movement heading in the future? -- Max Weintraub, Oakland, Calif. Max, Max, Max! Max Weintraub is a friend and colleague of mine, who has founded an excellent organization called Environmental Justice and Health Union. This question is huge, and many actors will be involved in answering it: commun ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Say, Can You Sze? Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers Grist's questions		15 Nov 2004	InterActivist
What work do you do? I'm an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of California at Davis. How does it relate to the environment? My research and teaching interests are in environmental justice, race and science, the politics of the urban environment, health and risk, social movements, and community activism. What do you really do, on a day-to-day basis? I do a combina ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Sting Ray Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions		23 Jul 2004	InterActivist
Ray Vaughan, executive director of WildLaw. What are your feelings about vegetarianism and its contribution to reducing environmental damage and alleviating world hunger? And why do you carry a gun? -- Marylou Noble, Portland, Ore. I admire folks who can truly reduce their impacts while still working on the big-picture problems; my comment was directed to people I know who make minimizing their impacts th ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics)

WildLaw, You Make My Heart Sing Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions		19 Jul 2004	InterActivist
Ray Vaughan. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am executive director of WildLaw. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? WildLaw is a nonprofit environmental law firm that represents hundreds of community, environmental, and conservation organizations around the country. We work mainly in the So ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics)

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