Judy Brady is a cancer activist and co-founded the Toxic Links
Coalition that united women's cancer groups and cancer survivors
with community and environmental organizations to stop cancer by
stopping pollution.
Henry Clark is Executive Director of the West
County Toxics Coalition in Richmond, California, a community heavily
impacted by chemical
plants, oil refineries and superfund sites. Henry was a co-founder
of California Communities Against Toxics.
Tessie Ester is President
of the Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Committee for Health and Environmental
Justice in San Francisco,
California. Tessie was a leader in the victory that closed the
polluting PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant and works on many
environmental, economic and social justice issues facing her community.
Alfredo Figueroa is the director of Escuela de la Raza in Blythe,
California, and a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union.
Alfredo is a founder of the Colorado River Ward Valley Coordinating
Committee.
Juana and Ricardo Gutierrez are founders of Madres del Este de
Los Angeles, Santa Isabel and co-founders of California Communities
Against Toxics.
David Harper is co-founder and spokesperson for
the Mohave Cultural Preservation Program and a tribal member of
the Colorado River
Indian Tribes, Parker, Arizona. Dave was a leader in the successful
campaign to save Ward Valley, sacred Indian land and the Colorado
River from a nuclear waste dump.
Mamie Harper is a Mohave Elder
of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and was a leader in the victory
against the Ward Valley nuclear
waste dump. Mamie and the Mohave Cultural Preservation Program
are working to evict a hazardous waste company off of tribal lands
to protect the health and culture of their people.
Teri Johnson is a mother and advisor to Children for a Safe Environment in Phoenix,
Arizona. Teri got involved following her daughter's
death after raising her in a contaminated community, and since
then has become a leader in grassroots environmental justice fights
in Arizona.
Annie Loya is a leader in Youth United for Community
Action, an East Palo Alto, California youth environmental and social
justice
organization. Annie is the Higher Learning Assistant Coordinator
for YUCA, and was a leader in the victory that shut the dirty Romic
hazardous waste facility.
Lori Thomas is co-founder of the Gila
River Alliance for a Clean Environment (GRACE), a grassroots tribal
member organization on
the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. Lori and GRACE led
the campaign that closed the Romic hazardous waste facility that
had illegally operated and illegally polluted tribal lands for
decades.
John Mataka is a community leader with the Grayson Neighborhood
Council in California's San Joaquin Valley. John was co-founder
of the Central California Environmental Justice Network, and has
been an organizer and advocate for social and environmental justice
for the low-income Latino communities in Stanislaus County.
Esperanza
Maya is a co-founder of El Pueblo Para Aire y Agua Limpio in Kettleman
City and helped lead the successful fight to stop
the incinerator proposed by Chem Waste. Esperanza was a co-founder
of California Communities Against Toxics.
Rahman Shabazz is President
of the Community Coalition for Change, a community group in South
Central Los Angeles working for a clean
up of toxic sites and for environmental justice.
Wilbur Slockish
Jr. is a Native American activist from the Dalles, Oregon, along
the Columbia River. Wilbur helped found the Indigenous
Environmental Network and is a leader in the grassroots Columbia
River Environmental and Economic Development.
Karen Susag is a
long time activist on women's health and environmental justice
issues. Karen was a co-founder of the Toxic Links
Coalition (TLC), a coalition of women's cancer, environmental justice,
community and health organizations.
Jane Williams is
Executive Director of California Communities Against Toxics,
the statewide grassroots alliance of community and environmental
justice groups. Jane is active with Desert Citizens Against Pollution,
working to clean up toxic sites in Rosamond and Mojave, and to
stop the attempt to turn the desert into a toxic and nuclear
dumping
ground.
