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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

Forgive Us Our Debts Why aren't conservationists fighting poverty?	Jon Christensen	11 Aug 2005	Soapbox
It's a shame. Conservationists are sitting on the sidelines while the Big Game unfolds before our eyes. A major campaign is under way to change the terms of development, alleviate crushing debt, and help poor people around the world live better lives. Successes are being racked up. And conservation and environmental groups are nowhere to be seen. There are 39 groups listed as partners in the Camp ...
Topics: environmental justice, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

No Buses, No Peace! Ansje Miller sends a dispatch from a conference on transportation and justice		20 Feb 2005	Dispatches
Ansje Miller is a program director for Redefining Progress and staffs the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a consortium of environmental-justice, religious, and policy groups. Sunday, 20 Feb 2005 LOS ANGELES, Calif. Driving down California's Interstate 5 from Oakland to Los Angeles, the need for a new vision for the future of transportation was clear. The pouring rain transform ...
Topics: California, Dispatches, environmental justice, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Class Action Dismissed Enviros join chorus against class-action bill, but measure still likely to pass	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Will class-action plaintiffs still get their day in court? The Erin Brockoviches of America could have a much tougher time going after polluters if the Class Action Fairness Act -- which the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve last week -- is signed into law. The bill, which will be put to a full Senate vote today, would move most major class-acti ...
Topics: Earthjustice, environmental justice, legislation, Muckraker, non-government organizations, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club, water pollution (all these topics)

Kweisi for You		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Kweisi for You The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a "civil rights issue." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live in hom ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, non-government organizations, politics, toxics (all these topics)

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