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Central California Environmental Justice Network Formed! See also: 11/17 Breaking News! Central California Environmental Justice Network Formed! Read the Fresno Bee story. Youth Speak Out at Environmental Justice Network conference! Read the great Fresno Bee story and read Greenaction Youth Organizer Natalia Bernal's report on the youth organizing. For more information, contact:
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120 People Attend Founding Conference November 17th! California's Central San Joaquin Valley is known around the world for its farms that feed millions of people with fruits and vegetables. What many people don't know is that the Central Valley is also home to two giant toxic waste dumps (Class I hazardous waste landfills), a big garbage incinerator, numerous communities polluted by toxics, and an area bombarded every day with dangerous pesticides. The Valley's low-income and predominantly Spanish-speaking farmworker communities are hit the hardest, and are suffering the disproportionate and discriminatory impacts of pollution and environmental injustice and racism. Building on a long history
of environmental justice struggles in the Many major victories for
environmental justice have been won in the San Joaquin Valley. In the
early 1990's the farmworker community of Kettleman City organized and
defeated plans by toxic giant Chemical Waste Management to build a commercial
hazardous waste incinerator near their town. Chem Waste already had
a big toxic dump in Kettleman City, and did not expect the Spanish-speaking
farmorkers to get organized to oppose the incinerator: |