Category: Redlining

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Climate, Cop City, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Plastic Pollution, Prisons, Redlining

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black joy, but also a call-to-action

June 19, 2023 by Mary Black

Analysis: For me, Juneteenth is a celebration of Black joy. It’s also a call-to-action for climate and environmental justice for people of the African diaspora. Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom, more than two years after the […]READ MORE

Waste, Food, Redlining

Grassroots Glossary

May 08, 2023 by People over Plastic Staff

Environmental Justice is a term we often see in the headlines these days whether it’s connected to a groundbreaking lawsuit here in the U.S., or a group of nations struggling to confront the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. Environmental Justice is such a pressing matter in our modern society that even the Biden administration […]READ MORE

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Podcasts

Climate, Petrochemicals, Plastic Pollution, Prisons, Redlining

The First Responder

November 22, 2022 by People over Plastic

featuring community advocate making advancements in criminal justice, David Heppard READ MORE

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