Join us in celebrating the founding of Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, GROWING A MOVEMENT Founder�s Day Saturday, October 11, 2003, 1:30 - 7:00 pm
Minneapolis Urban League 2100 Plymouth Av. North, Minneapolis (Plymouth & Penn, Minneapolis) For directions, go to http://www.mul.org/direction.cfm Featuring keynote address by Dr. Robert Bullard Free and open to the public Program: 1:30 � 2:00 Registration, refreshments 2:00 �3:00 Concurrent Workshops: A Growing Movement- Youth Activism or We Seek Justice: Legal Advocacy and Environmental Justice 3:00 � 4:00 Workshop with Dr. Bullard and others: Our People, Our Movement: Environmental Justice Organizing 4:00 � 5:00 Open time- Information tables 5:00 � 6:00 Dinner Reception 6:00 Keynote address: Dr. Robert Bullard Robert Bullard, PhD, Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, is the nation's leading expert on race and the environment. He is the author of 11 books and his book Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality is considered a standard text in the environmental justice field. Come listen, learn, discuss, and act to protect your community. Environmental injustice. People of color and low-income communities bear disproportionate risk from environmental pollution, including living in areas with higher air pollution and near toxic waste sites, incinerators and polluting industries. Children of color and low-income children are more likely to experience asthma and lead poisoning. In addition low-income communities and communities of color have higher risks from occupational exposures, poor conditions in housing and schools and from eating contaminated fish. Join EJAM in fighting for justice in communities affected by environmental pollution. Hs Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota or EJAM is a coalition of residents and citizens who have come together to advocate for the environmental health of communities of color and low-income communities in Minnesota. Since March 2003, EJAM has played a unique role in advocating for environmental justice in Minneapolis and served as a catalyst for consensus-building and problem resolution. EJAM has successfully focused the attention of government leaders on environmental justice issues resulting from dirty coal combustion in an inner city coal plant. Related to this issue, EJAM organized testimony and attendance by more than 170 citizens at a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission public hearing held at the Minneapolis Urban League to give voice to community concerns and support Xcel Energy�s voluntary conversion of two coal plants to natural gas. EJAM has also served as a forum to bring together residents, developers and regulators to diffuse a controversial situation in which community members believed that soil at a new affordable housing development was contaminated. Thanks to our sponsors: Minneapolis Urban League, The Minneapolis Foundation, General Mills Foundation and the Sierra Club. For further information, contact: Cheryl Morgan Spencer at 612-302-3125 or Rep. Keith Ellison at 651-296-8659. Batala-Ra Old Highland REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
