In addition to focusing on this pivotal era in American environmental history, the course provided an opportunity for participants to gain hands-on experience making their own historical documentaries.
The film's international release date is set for Wednesday, July 1, and it will be available for rent on the Films For Action website. Together, @helloalice and the @NAACP are proud to announce their long-term partnership to ensure #BusinessForAll for #NewMajority small business owners. Drafted by a coalition of groups in 2002 using the “Principles of Environmental Justice” as a model, the coalition announced its adoption of the principles at the Rio+10 Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, setting the stage for the expansion of activism around climate... JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Nicknamed “Mr. Whole towns in California and Oregon have been destroyed by the wildfires.
A growing body of scientific evidence over the last several decades confirms that as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rise, so too will frequent, intense and increasingly deadly weather events. Each of more than a dozen online events is hosted by a different organization and offers the opportunity to raise funds for key environmental justice groups and impacted communities that are leading the charge against destructive fossil fuel projects. "On a personal level, this whole experience helped us face our own privilege, and we quickly realized that the pollution outside reflected the ego-toxicity we are carrying on the inside. '
That finding was underscored in a national presidential poll by Quinnipiac released September 23 in which climate change was next-to-last at 6% among likely voters as the most important issue.
So it would seem all the little details and nuances of each candidate's climate and environmental positions in the roughly 10 most competitive Senate races … nope, those really don't matter right now. 56% are first-time voters. Food, Inc. unveils America’s food industry showing how the nation’s supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers, and the environment.
Subsequent high winds in drought-stricken landscapes then turned the initial sparks into major conflagrations.
By the morning of Trump's California appearance, 28 major fires had incinerated more than 3 million acres just in California.
These are the questions that animate Christopher W. Wells’s exciting new primary source collection, Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader. The first document, a photograph of African American cotton pickers in Mississippi, was taken in 1940 but could easily be mistaken for an earlier era. Many people supporting Democratic candidates saw a possible Democratic majority as a hedge against a potential Trump re-election … a way to plug the firehose spray of more than 100 environmental regulation rollbacks and new anti-climate initiatives by the administration over its first term.
In much of his work, he expressed the view that environmental issues and social justice issues should be understood... Beginning in the late 1970s, events in the small, working-class community in Niagara Falls, New York, known as Love Canal, brought to a crescendo a decade of national conversations about how to safely dispose of toxic chemicals. Just as scientists are scoring successes in coronavirus research, new problems are on their way. The best part? There is much speculation about what is to be expected and what will or could happen when these two dangerous infectious diseases come together. Watch the documentary, produced by eight undergraduate students at U-M, here: In an era of fake news, doctored video and a government-sanctioned war on reality, documentaries are truly more important than ever. In less than half an hour, viewers get a very good sense of what environmental justice is all about. The Water Front follows the personal journey of Vallory Johnson, who transforms her anger into an emotional grassroots campaign, defending affordable water as a human right in Highland Park, Michigan. This section focuses on the domestic spaces and neighborhoods where people of color lived starting in the era of segregation and moving into the civil rights era.
A new report shows the U.S. government bought more than $350 million in bonds issued by oil and gas companies and induced investors to loan the industry tens of billions more at artificially low rates since the coronavirus pandemic began, Bloomberg reported. Among those interviewed are Robert D. Bullard, Julio Fierro, Joan Martínez-Alier and Tatiana Roa. EcoSense explores the intersection of environmentalism and the social justice movement with representatives from the Partnership for Southern Equity and the NAACP. In November 1969, for example, when the Native American group Indians of All Tribes launched a fourteen-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, they declared it “Indian land” and announced their intention to turn the former prison into a Native American studies center, an American Indian museum, and an ecology center. Coal Country is a film that tells of the dramatic struggle around the use of coal, … "I know not many people are aware of the history of Indian boarding schools, and I know it's not taught in schools — but our country must do better to acknowledge our real history and push for truth and reconciliation. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience while browsing it. Traditional EJ battles against the unequal exposure of poor and minority populations to toxics and other environmental burdens continued during the Obama presidency. Filmmaker SImon Kilmurry writes that “Documentary film is essential to a healthy and democratic society — that is why it is feared by autocrats.” Documentarians are often arrested, and even killed just for doing … As we work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, environmental racism is presenting a deadly parallel threat for Indigenous peoples across North and South America, who continue to defend the lands and waters, protecting their communities from extraction and the pandemic. HistoryLabs emphasize the importance of collaboration, and teamwork remained fundamental through all phases of the project. Kevin Rubba, Jana Shemano, Preston Vanalstine, and edited by Matthew Woodbury.
is a new LaMCA-EJOLT documentary where scholars, activists and people suffering environmental injustices provide their views and testimonies on environmental justice.