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We Speak For Ourselves: Grassroots Movements In The Struggle For Environmental Justice, Christopher O'Brien
We Speak For Ourselves: Grassroots Movements In The Struggle For Environmental Justice, Christopher O'Brien
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This literature review and thesis examine two main issues, one on grassroots and community organizing and the other discussing the implications of environmental racism. The paper examines the nature of why low income and minority communities experience a disproportionate amount of environmental injustices, and what can be done at the grassroots level to combat this. Through a review of literature on both community/grassroots organizing and the prevalence of environmental racism within the United States, along with experiential findings through a community partnership, the issues of remedying environmental racism and the effectiveness of the remedies are explored. Environmental racism is a …