Fwd: invitation to a screening (fwd)

[Sonja L. Lanehart]

Is 'environmental racism' as used in the message below a new term or
new modification of 'racism'?  I guessed correctly what it meant
before I read the message, but I hadn't heard that terminology used
to describe it before.   --SL


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>Angela Pulley
>Southeastern Native American Documents
>Digital Library of Georgia
>Main Library
>University of Georgia
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>"He who hide the wrong he did / Surely did the wrong thing still."
>                                                 -Bob Marley
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>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:22:11 -0500
>From: Mary Miller <mlmiller at arches.uga.edu>
>To: UGA Libraries Grapevine <grapevine at libris.libs.uga.edu>
>Subject: invitation to a screening
>
>Hi, folks.
>
>The fourth and final program in this year's Black History Month screening
>series is tomorrow night,
>Fat Tuesday, February 27th, at 7:00 p.m. in room B-2 of the Main Library.
>
>We hope you can come!
>
>The Toxic Side of Racism:
>"Environmental Racism," an episode of Earthkeeping, produced by
>  WGBH and originally broadcast by PBS on January 18, 1994.
>*****Hugh Esco, clerk of the Georgia Green Party and
>Chair of the Voter Choice Coalition, will lead a discussion
>  following the screening. *******
>
>"Environmental racism and the advocacy movement that has resulted from it
>are the focus of this program. Many victims of toxic waste dumping and
>industrial pollution live in poor communities and/or minority communities.
>EARTHKEEPING looks at how alliances are being forged between diverse groups
>working together to craft legal, political and educational strategies for
>eliminating environmental problems."--1994 Peabody Awards entry form
>excerpt.
>An Environmental Protection Agency study found that 3 of 4 toxic waste sites
>are in predominantly minority communities.  Compared with other sites, sites
>in minority communities receive less government funding for cleanup and have
>to wait longer to see their problems corrected.  In addition, companies
>responsible for polluting minority communities consistently pay lower fines
>than those polluting white communities.
>This program looks at the fight in four predominantly minority communities
>to keep toxic wastes out of their communities or to get waste sites cleaned
>up:
>- the fight between black residents of Warren County, N.C. and a company
>that wants to dispose of PCB contaminated soil in their area
>-Latinos in Kettleman City, California fighting the building of a toxic
>waste incinerator
>-white and black residents of rural Raleigh, N.C. fighting pollution by
>corporate hog farms
>-black residents of West Dallas, Texas fighting to have a lead smelting
>plant and the surrounding neighborhoods added to the Superfund project
>
>Mary Miller
>Black History Month Screenings
>http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/blkhmscr.html
>Cataloger, Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
>University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA
>(706) 542-7360     mlmiller at arches.uga.edu


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