Justice and equity are fundamental in a civilized society. Examples of injustice are a lack of adequate housing, poor sanitation, an inadequate supply of pure water, and environmental degradation related to industrial pollution. This section offers options for change and resources for positive action.
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), 150 S. Washington, Suite 300, P.O. Box 6806, Falls Church, VA 22040, Tel: 703.237.CCHW, Email: chej@chej.org , Website: http://www.chej.org. CHEJ works with grassroots community groups on a broad range of environmental issues, including toxic waste, solid waste, air pollution, incinerators, medical waste, radioactive waste, pesticides, sewage and industrial pollution.
Center For Justice and Sustainability, 51 S Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, Tel: 202.667.2508, Fax: 202.667.4870 The Center for Justice and Sustainability is a knowledge-based consulting practice that provides services to government, academia, business, philanthropy and community-based organizations who want to operationalize the principles of justice and sustainability in their activities.
Center for Living Democracy, 289 Fox Farm Road, P.O. Box 8187, Brattleboro, VT 05304-8187, Tel: 802.254.1234, Fax: 802.254.1227, Email: info@livingdemocracy.org , Website: http://www.livingdemocracy.org. The Center's mission is to accelerate the emergence of Living Democracy, the broad awakening to the essential role of regular citizens in solving America's toughest problems.
Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606, Tel: 510-533-7583, Fax: 510-533-0923, Email: ctwo@sirius.com , Website: http://www.ctwo.org. CTWO is a training and resource center promoting and sustaining direct action community organizing in communities of color in the United States. Its programs include training new and experienced organizers, establishing model multi-racial community organizations, and building an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice.
EcoJustice Network, Website: http://www.igc.org/envjustice. The EcoJustice Network addresses environmental issues facing communities of color in the United States. It provides on-line services, informational resources, and training for activists and organizations involved in the environmental justice movement.
Environmental Justice Resource Center - Clark Atlanta University, James P. Brawley Drive at Fair Street, SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, Tel: 404.880.6911, Email: ejrc@cau.edu , Website: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu. EJRC seeks to assist, support, train, and educate people of color professionals and grassroots community leaders with the goals of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making.
First Nations Development Institute, Stores Building, 11917 Main Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22408, Tel: 540.371.5615, Fax: 540.371.3505. Email: info@firstnations.org , Website: http://www.firstnations.org First Nations focuses on culturally appropriate and sustainable development for American Indian communities.
Highlander Research and Education Center, 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820, Tel: 423.933.3443, Fax: 423.933.3424, Email: hrec@highlandercenter.org, Website: http://www.hrec.org Highlander works with grassroots leaders and community groups to help bring about social change through collective action.
Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship (IEEE), Village Foundation, 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 501, Alexandria, VA 22314-1591, Tel: 703.548.3200, Fax: 703.548.5296, Website: http://www.villagefoundation.org. IEEE's mission is to help impoverished communities achieve new prosperity, primarily inner-city neighborhoods in major metropolitan areas. It publishes Greenprints, a series of papers about innovations to revitalize the economies of these communities.
National Congress of Neighborhood Women, 249 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Tel: 1.888.777.5776 This network is committed to helping low-income women help themselves by encouraging leadership and participation in their communities and increasing opportunities for grassroots activity.
National Council of Churches, Eco-Justice Working Group, 475 Riverside Drive, #812, New York, NY 10115, Tel: 212.870.2385, Fax: 212.870.2265, Website: http://www.webofcreation.org/ncc/Workgrp.html This coalition of grassroots justice and church groups focuses on environmental issues.
SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), 211 10th Street, SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, Tel: 505.247.8832, Fax: 505.247.9972, Email: swop@igc.org, Website: http://www.swop.net SWOP is a multi-racial, statewide grassroots organization in New Mexico which focuses on increasing citizen participation and building leadership skills in low-income communities.
Tolerance.org, Website: http://www.tolerance.org. This web site, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."
U.S. EPA, Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ), Mail Stop 2201-A, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, Tel: 800.962.6215, Email: environmental-justice-epa@epamail.epa.gov, Website: http://www.epa.gov/earth100/records/a00202.html. The OEJ coordinates EPA's effort to address environmental justice problems.
United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, Tel: 805.822.5571, Fax: 805.822.6103, Website: http://www.ufw.org.
Urban Habitat Program, P.O. Box 29908, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA 94129-9908, Tel: 415.561.3333, Fax: 415.561.3334, Email: contact@urbanhabitatprogram.org, Website: http://www.urbanhabitatprogram.org. The Urban Habitat Program, a project of the Earth Island Institute, builds multicultural urban environmental leadership for socially just, ecologically sustainable communities in the San Francisco area.
Web of Creation, 1100 East 55th Street, Chicago, IL 60615, Email: webofcreation@lstc.edu, Website: http://www.webofcreation.org. This web site seeks to foster the movement for personal and social transformation to a just and sustainable world - from religious perspectives. It contains extensive resources on ecology and religion.
Boger, Charles and Judith Welch Wegner, eds. Race, Poverty and American Cities. (University of Carolina Press, 1996). These essays address the need for a national urban policy; the effects of residential mobility on education, employment, and racial integration; the impact of race on health, education, and welfare policies; the influence of the media on racial conflict; and the need for policy change.
Bryant, Bunyan, ed. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies and Solutions. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995). Leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.
Bryant, Bunyan and Paul Mohais, eds. Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992).
Bullard, Robert D. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994).
Bullard, Robert D. and Glenn S. Johnson. Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility. (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1997). These essays trace the historical roots of transportation struggles in North American civil rights history and examine the dynamics of disparate incomes and transportation equity and the impact of transportation policy on inner city environments.
Burrington, Stephen H., and Bennet Heart. City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation. (Conservation Law Foundation, June 1998). This is a guidebook for urban, especially inner-city, residents who are impacted by unsafe streets and by pollution from traffic and bus depots and garages sited in the middle of their neighborhoods. It includes strategies for getting citizens and the media involved and ways to use the federal civil rights laws. To obtain this resource contact the Conservation Law Foundation, 62 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110-1016; Tel 617.350.0990. This resource can be found online at: http://www.tlcnetwork.org/crcr1.htm.
Earth Island Institute. Race, Poverty, and the Environment. This is a quarterly publication published by the Urban Habitat Program of the Earth Island Institute. To obtain this resource contact: Earth Island Institute, PO Box 29908, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA 94129-9908, Tel: 415.561.3333, Fax: 415.56.3334, Email: uhp@igc.apc.org.
Ecology Center. Forming Partnerships for Environmental Justice: A Handbook for Environmental, Civil Rights and Community Organizations. (Ann Arbor, MI: Ecology Center, 1997). This handbook describes how the Ecology Center and the Ypsalinti/Willow Run branch of the NAACP combined resources and expertise to involve citizens, educators, and students in combating environmental injustice through education and citizen action. To obtain this resource contact the Ecology Center, 117 North Division, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Tel: 313.761.3186, ext. 110; Fax: 313.663.2414.
Hofrichter, Richard, ed. Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers).
National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices. Smart Growth and Environmental Justice. This Issue Brief discusses how states can build on their smart growth efforts to help adress environmental justice concerns through community-based planning and brownfields redevlopment. This resource can be found online at: http://nga.org/cda/files/052201ENVIROJUS.pdf.
Southwest Research and Information Center. The Workbook. This is a fully indexed bi-monthly catalog of sources of information about environmental, social, and consumer problems. To obtain this resource contact: Southwest Research and Information Center, P.O. Box 4524, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
The Stanley Foundation, in cooperation with American Association of University Women, Church Women United, National Association of Commissions for Women, and Women's Environment and Development Association. Building On Beijing: United States NGOs Shape a Women's National Action Agenda. (Muscatine, IA: The Stanley Foundation, 1997). The Agenda contains recommendations for implementing the Platform for Action, adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, in local communities, organizations, workplaces, and governments. To obtain this resource contact one of the cooperating organizations. This resource can be found online at: http://reports.stanleyfdn.org/WNAA.pdf.
United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States. (New York, NY: Public Data Access, Inc., 1987). This is a national report on the racial and socio-economic characteristics of communities with hazardous waste sites.
Working Group on Community Right-To-Know. Working Notes. This newsletter presents material from the "Working Group on Community Right-To-Know", an affiliation of more than twenty national environmental and public interest organizations hosted by the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. It serves a national network of activists working to protect and promote our Right-to-Know about toxic pollution.
Southern Echo, Jackson, Miss.; A statewide educational organization works with members of the African-American community on sustainable agriculture and environmental safety, using an intergenerational approach.
Carver Hills Neighborhood Project, Atlanta, Ga.; A neighborhood group was assisted by a state-wide environmental organization in its efforts to close an adjacent municipal landfill and make improvements in their environment.
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