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Here We Go Again
Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke |
Gregory Dicum |
14 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics) |
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Justice in Time
Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice |
Gregory Dicum |
14 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics) |
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Race to the Bottom
Slow Katrina evacuation fits pattern of injustice during crises |
Liza Featherstone |
08 Sep 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Much of the world -- including white America -- has been shocked by the devastation in New Orleans, and by the ongoing failures it has exposed at every possible level of government. Even normally unflappable TV news anchors and politicians have been moved to outrage, asking why those left behind were mostly black, poor, disabled, elderly. Veterans of the environmental-justice movem ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, politics (all these topics) |
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Diamond Is Forever
Diamond chronicles how a small southern town made environmental history |
Julie Sze |
13 Jul 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| When Margie Eugene-Richard won the Goldman Prize last year, it was a stunning public recognition of decades of struggle. Richard -- the first African-American to win the award, which some refer to as environmentalism's Nobel Prize -- had waged a 30-year campaign against Shell Chemicals with fellow residents of Diamond, La. Like the proverbial David, the African-American, working-cl ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Will & Disgrace
Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general |
Amanda Griscom Little |
28 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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Tipping the Scalias of Justice
Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case |
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20 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Tipping the Scalias of Justice Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been ordered by lower courts to release documents related to his secretive energy task force meetings. In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Cheney -- long-time friends -- went duck hunting i ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, New York, politics (all these topics) |
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