Tag: air
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Tropical Storm Imelda Hits USP Beaumont
Tropical Storm Imelda Hits USP Beaumont! (The Truth and nothing Else!) By Keith ‘Malik’ Washington Fight Toxic Prisons—-Correspondent Sept. 23, 2019 As a Nationally known Prison Abolitionist and humyn rights activist, I am very passionate and dedicated to the causes and the people my comrades and I support. However, as a journalist I am duty-bound…
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People of Color Poisoned By Pollution and Prisons
by Panagioti Tsolkas / FightToxicPrisons.org According to a report by the National Academy of Sciences published in March, people of color breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making. This news may not come as a surprise to many following the environmental justice movement, perhaps the shock is that the…
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Prison Abolitionists Rally for Human and Environmental Health at Pittsburgh Polluters’ Offices
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — On the heels of the 3rd Annual Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence, dozens of organizers, community members, and friends and family of currently- and formerly-incarcerated peoples marched through downtown Pittsburgh, making stops at the headquarters of EQT and ending at a power plant belonging to coal utility NRG Energy on the North Side.…