Mikey: Going to stop riding ypur motorcycle and clean up he Planet Earth?
On Dec 24, 9:59�am, "mike [ happy holidays ] 532" <[email protected]> wrote: > Will Environmental Justice Finally Get Its Due?http://www.truthout.org/122308N > Brentin Mock, The American Prospect: "If President-Elect Barack > Obama's recent cabinet choices are any indication, the decades-old > environmental justice movement may finally see many of its top policy > goals fulfilled. The Obama administration is poised to finally > deliver > on White House promises made in the early 1990s to protect minorities > from toxic waste, and with the addition of an Office of Urban Policy, > it may go even further toward correcting historical racial > disparities > when it comes to environmental hazards. On Feb. 11, 1994, President > Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12898, the Federal Actions to > Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income > Populations. It was a huge milestone for the environmental justice > movement, which began in the early 1980s when multi-racial coalitions > of activists fought against pollution and dumpings near African- > American communities in Warren County, North Carolina, and Dickson > County, Tennessee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
