civil rights
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Report: Environmental agencies are violating civil rights laws — and the EPA is letting them
To date, the EPA has found only one instance of discrimination.
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What the environmental justice movement owes Martin Luther King Jr
King’s work continues to influence young environmental activists today.
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A toxic landfill is swallowing this Alabama community. The EPA dismissed its case.
"Officials who are supposed to protect us ... don't, because we are black people."
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Civil rights group throws support to controversial desalination project
It would come at a high cost to vulnerable communities.
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Smacked down: How police action is feeding the Occupy movement
Photo: Jessica LehrmanOn Oct. 11, 2011, I asked the mayor of Baltimore to sleep with me. I challenged her to spend one night outside in front of City Hall in solidarity with Baltimore’s 4,000 homeless residents. It was a long shot, I knew. My good intentions notwithstanding, she would likely decline. But even I was […]
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Green is the new red: environmental activists under attack
Will Potter on the eerie parallels between the Red Scare and the kind of repression and paranoia the green movement faces today.
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Reflections on community gardens and the legacy of MLK
We don't do King's memory justice unless we acknowledge that his work was profoundly unfinished. The class divide he feared has persisted and, in fact, grown more powerful. Perhaps most insidiously, that divide has entrenched itself in our food system.
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Rebuilding a historic neighborhood where some risked all for their humanity
The revitalization of an obscure block in Montgomery, Ala., will reaffirm its place in the history of the civil rights movement.
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Restore honor to America on August 29, 2010
On Aug. 29, 2010, thousands will gather at the location where the levees broke in the lower 9th Ward to remember those who died in the flood.