I am sharing this article here because it is related to the past research several youth ( carried out regarding Environmental Justice in Washington State. The author, Helen Reddout, helped OAG and the youth researchers understand the environmental injustice being committed in the Yakima Valley by the Dairy industry – and CAFOs in particular (Concentrated [...]
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Stand With The Achuar
Representatives of the Achuar tribe visited the Talisman HQ to demand withdrawal from their territory. “Talisman recently adopted a global community relations policy, acknowledging respect for indigenous rights, but the company continues to ignore its own policy & the Achuar’s demands. [...] Oil operations would affect key hunting grounds, water resources and sacred lands integral to [...]
Don’t Bottle the Skagit River!
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org. by: Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin: Sandra Spargo Editor’s Note: Sandra Spargo, a dedicated citizen, clues us in on a proposed bottled water/food manufacturing plant in Anacortes, Washington as well as the struggle to give the people of Anacortes a say in the decision to deny or [...]
Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency Sued for Violating State Public Records Act
Agency refused to provide public records regarding controversial draft rule purportedly intended to address hazardous air pollution from dairies YAKIMA, WA – The Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency (YRCAA) was served with a lawsuit today alleging that it violated the state Public Records Act (PRA) by refusing to copy and email electronic public records to an [...]
Call for Researchers: Food & Labor Justice
Food justice and the food justice movement invoke in the popular imagination such concepts as fair trade, organic, and urban agriculture. The movement is sometimes perceived as a privileged environmental struggle. Yet food justice, as all of us who are passionate about it know, is inherently about social justice; this is inextricable from its ecological [...]
Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers
Event Title & Host Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers Website https://www.facebook.com/events/298062443573351/ When? Friday, January 27, 2012, 2pm (Westlake) / 3pm (Darigold HQ) Where? Westlake Park (401 Pine St) / Darigold Headquarters at 1130 Rainier Ave. S Why? Solidarity with Farmworkers! We are what we eat, and we are who grows our food! [...]
The Int’l Energy Horizon, Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, & Empty Promisess
Near the end of 2011, the Department of Energy’s US Energy Information Administration released its annual report on the prospects of international energy consumption and production. The “International Energy Outlook 2011″ came 301-pages-thick, providing mind numbing amounts of research on global energy supplies, markets, and new technologies. I’ve created an overly-abridged summary, to share the [...]
Video: Stop School Pushout
Here is a short video produced by Maggie at League of Education Voters to introduce viewers to the collaborative LEV/OAG Schools 2 Prisons research project. An OAG zine based on the research is forthcoming, while LEV moves forward strongly with the campaign to Stop School Pushout. Enjoy!
Chiquita Comes Out Against Tar Sands
Last Thursday the destructive Canadian Tar Sands industry was dealt a new blow when Chiquita Banana announced they would work to eliminate Tar Sands from their transportation footprint. Chiquita, the company responsible for one quarter of the U.S.’s bananas, was responding to a campaign led by ForestEthics and grassroots groups fighting Canada’s Tar Sands across [...]
