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Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice

For as long as there have been people in power using the destruction of the environment to subjugate minorities, we have been fighting back through community efforts.

It is time to take a stand! Just think how many more people are falling victim to environmental racism that the media hides just so they can’t receive help and continue to suffer in silence. It ends here and we cannot tolerate it any longer. We must have environmental justice!

Environmental justice is revolution. There must be a will to create systems where people are valued beyond their ability to provide labor.

In order to achieve environmental justice, marginalized communities must be able to have self-determination over their land and control the industry located on such land.

For every case of environmental racism, there is a group of environmental warriors at the forefront of the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice involves people of color in both acts of resistance and institutional control. Environmental justice rewrites the destinies of people of color.

_{Top Photo: Reverend Joseph Lowery leads a march protesting a proposed toxic waste dump in Warren County, North Carolina, in October 1982. (Bettman / Getty Images)}