Finding Aid
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
(APEN)
-APEN brocure - Unifying the Asian Pacific Community to Achieve
Multicultural Environmental Justice
-Environmental Injustices to Asian and Pacific Americans
-The Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
-Rojas, A. (1993). “An Asian Environmental Group.” San
Francisco Chronicle, A17. [June 3, 1993]
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Asian
Week, 14(42), 1. [June 11, 1993]
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Francisco Examiner, A6. [June 14, 1993]
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by APA Environment Group.” Asian Week, 9. [December 3, 1993]
Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous
Wastes
-Helping People to Help Themselves. Falls Church, VA: Citizen's
Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, Inc.
-Everyone's Backyard, newsletter put out by Citizen's Clearinghouse
for Hazardous Wastes, Inc.
-10(5) [10/1992]
-10(6) [12/1992]
-11(1) [2/1993]
-11(2) [4/1993]
-13(4) [Fall/Winter 1995]
-Southern Action, newsletter put out by CCHW
-1 [1988]
-undated letter to “Dear Friend” from Lois Marie Gibbs, executive director
of CCHW
-Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, Inc. Center for Environmental
Justice - undated letter to “Dear Friend” from Lois Marie Gibbs
-Justice Day - letter to “Dear Grassroots Leader” from Lois Marie Gibbs,
with information about Justice Day [February 21, 1994]
-transcript - Organizing Session from CCHW Women in Toxic Organizing
Conference
-Five Years of Progress 1981-6: Fifth Anniversary Convention, Arlington,
Va. May 31-June 1. “A Commemorative History and Call to Action:
The National Grassroots Movement Against Toxics.” Arlington, VA:
CCHW, 1986.
-stickers from CCHW conventions
-Convention ‘93
-People United for Environmental Justice (7)
Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous
Wastes (2)
-Women and Burn-Out Fact Pack, information packet put out by
Citizen’s Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes
-Ten Years of Triumph. Falls Church, VA: Citizen's Clearinghouse
for Hazardous Wastes, Inc., 1993.
Environmental Project on Central America (EPOCA)
-Nicaragua Environmental Brigades, brochure put out by EPOCA
-Peace, Justice and the Environment in Central America, brochure
put out by EPOCA
-EPOCA Update, newsletter put out by EPOCA
-Summer 1988
-Spring 1990
Greenpeace (1)
-Costner, P. & J. Thornton (1989). We All Live Downstream: The
Mississippi River and the National Toxics Crisis.
Washington, DC: Greenpeace. Second printing, October 1990. (2 copies)
Greenpeace (2)
-Waste Management, Inc.: An Encyclopedia of Environmental Crimes
& Other Misdeeds. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Greenpeace, 1991.
Gulf Coast Tenants Organization
-African-American Environmental Education Program. Prepared
for Lyons, LA community leaders. New Orleans, LA: Gulf Coast Tenants Organization,
1993.
-Principles of Unity - Re-Defining the Environment
-A Short History of the Gulf Coast Tenants Organization. New
Orleans, LA: Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, 1992.
-Let's Stop the Scapegoating
-Earth Day Celebration!! [April 20, 1991]
-Come to a SECOND GREAT LOUISIANA MARCH AGAINST POISONS
-"Legislative Hearing on housing and tenant issues to highlight caravan
stop in Montgomery." The Democrat (Greene County, Alabama),
99(40). [October 3, 1990]
-"Environmental racism targeted." Times-Picayune. [April 8,
1993]
-"Gulf Coast Tenants Organization." The New Times, 4-5. [October
4-10, 1990]
-"Southern Justice Caravan concludes in Baton Rouge protesting high
gas prices; 21 arrests made." The Democrat (Greene County, Alabama),
99(43), 1. [October 24, 1990]
-"Caravan members meet at Maxwell, protest policy." The Alabama
Journal, 102(206), 1A. [October 16, 1990]
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copies)
-letter to “Dear Friends” re: Earth Day Celebration [4/1991]
-Gerome, J. (1990). “Caravan to Push for Peace Dvidend.”
Montgomery Advertiser. [October 9, 1990]
-first page of letter to Reginald Jones and Donald Dickerson, Housing
Authority of East Baton Rouge Parish, from Roosevelt Street Tenants Organization
[October 7, 1986]
-The Great Louisiana Toxics March [October 27, 1988]
-No War for Oil --- Roll Back Gas Prices —Or Shut Them Down
- press release for seventh day of Southern Justice Caravan [October, 1990]
-Gulf Coast Tenant’s Voice, 11(2) [April, 1993]
-Gulf Coast Tenant’s Voice, 6(1) [1993 Review, 1994 Forecast]
-LEAN History Book, put out by Louisiana Environmental Action
Network [contains clippings from late 1980's to early 1990's]
-LCTJ News, put out by Louisiana Coalition for Tax Justice
-1(2) [July, 1991]
-2(3) [December, 1992]
-3(1) [July, 1993]
Gulf Coast Tenants Organization (2)
-newspaper clippings about the Great Louisiana Toxics March [1988]
-Blueprint for Social Justice, 42(2), about Great Louisiana
Toxics March [October, 1988]
-Developing Tenants and Black Activists to Become Leaders in a New
Movement for Eco-Justice in Southern Louisiana, proposal by the Toxic
Organizing Project of the Gulf Coast Tenant Leadership Development Project,
Inc.
-Digest of the Southern Action Manifesto for Environmental &
Economic Justice
-draft - Southern Action Manifesto for Environmental & Economic
Justice
-The Program of Gulf Coast Tenants Organization
-Louisiana Great Toxics March Principles of Unity
-The Program of the Gulf Coast Tenants Organization
-Tenants Pilgrimage for Justice (A Concept Paper) For Justice and
Peace in Central American and in the United States, presented by Gulf
Coast Tenant Leadership Development Project
-A Short History of the Gulf Coast Tenants Organization
-Gulf Coast Tenant’s Voice, 1(1) [August-September 1990]
Labor/Community Strategy
Center
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and Martín Hernández (Organizer) re opening night of play,
The
Other Weapon, sponsored by Strategy Center [February 24, 1994]
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Times. [December 5, 1991]
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to Gain Scrutiny of Refinery." Los Angeles Times, B3, B5.
[February 12, 1993]
-letter about the Labor/Community Strategy Center's WATCHDOG project,
in Spanish [2-2-1994]
-An Open Letter to all community members affected by the Texaco
refinery explosion that endangered the lives health and safety in communities
for miles around, put out by the Labor/Community Watchdog (English
on one side, Spanish on the other)
-Labor/Community WATCHDOG: A Three Year Organizing Strategy to Impact
the Los Angeles Clean Air Plan, small poster
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3. [January 15, 1992]
-advertisement sheet for the Labor/Community Strategy Center
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Watchdog's demands are met
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Section B. [May 11, 1993]
-report - Restructuring Los Angeles from the Bottom Up: A Long-Term
Strategy for Workers, Low-Income People, and People of Color to Create
an Alternate Vision of Urban Development
-Boycott Texaco!, put out by the Labor/Community Watchdog (English
on one side, Spanish on the other)
-Books and Films from the Labor/Community Strategy Center
-Hamilton, C. Apartheid in an American City: the Case of the Black
Community in Los Angeles. Reprinted from the Los Angeles Times;
published by the Labor/Community Strategy Center
-review by David Bensman, Los Angeles Times Book Review, of
Eric Mann's book, Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW
Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open. [March 27, 1988]
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Influx." Los Angeles Times. [April 28, 1993]
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242-243. [February 24, 1992]
-Bulletin & Update concerning conference weekend at Xavier
University, December 4-6, 1992 [9/1992]
-The Environmental Justice Movement in the South
-Southern Fight-Back, 14(2) [Fall 1999]
-brochure - L. A.’s Lethal Air: It’s Time for a Change
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Reprint. [September 17, 1990]
Mobilization
for Survival (MfS)
-handout - Mobilization for Survival
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by Urban Toxics Committee of the Peace Education Project, educational branch
of MfS
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Shepherd Express, 13(16), 1, 7. [April 22-29, 1993]
National Toxics Campaign Fund
-Lewis, S., B. Keating and D. Russell. Inconclusive By Design: Waste,
Fraud and Abuse in Federal Environmental Health Research. Boston: National
Toxics Campaign Fund and Harvey, LA: Environmental Health Network, 1992.
-Lewis, S. and H. Kalan. Transforming the Toxic Economy and Defending
Public Health: A Grassroots Citizen's Challenge for The Clinton Administration's
First 100 Days. Boston: National Toxics Campaign Fund, 1992.
(2 copies)
-Communities of Resistance. Boston: National Toxics Campaign
Fund.
North Carolina
Student Rural Health Coalition (NCSRHC)
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[8-17-1994]
-A People's Manual for Occupational and Environmental Health Screenings,
draft put out by NCSRHC, 1991.
-"Fighting for a Single Payer Health Plan: Important Stage in the People's
Health Movement," reprint from African-American Nation, 1994.
-Toxic Terrorism: Testimony from a Public Hearing, Saturday, April
8, 1989, Sponsored by the Shiloh Coalition for Community Control and Improvement.
Morrisville, NC: Shiloh Coalition for Community Control and Improvement,
1990.
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1994]
-brochure about Community Health Collective
-brochure about NCSRHC
-Health Facts of NC's Black Belt
-Coalition Newsbrief, NCSRHC newsletter, Issue 11, April 1994
-Justice Speaks: Black Workers for Justice, 11(10), June 1994
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
International Union (OCAW)
-letter to Mary Lee Orr, LEAN, from Esnard Gremillion, Chairman, BASF
Group, OCAW Local 4-620 [October 12, 1987]
-O. C. A. W. Observer: News and Views of O. C. A. W. Local 4-620
[April 18, 1989]
-Update on the 43-month BASF Lockout at Geismar, LA, press release
from OCAW Local 4-620 [January 14, 1988]
-Calendar of Events for November 11-17, 1988, schedule for the
Great Louisiana Toxics March, which OCAW co-sponsored
-Basagram: News and Views of OCAW Local 4-620, Volume 12
-The Observer, union newsletter of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers International Union, Local 4-620
-May, 1991
-June, 1991
-July, 1991
-March, 1992
-November, 1992
Panos Institute
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Environment. Washington, D. C.: The Panos Institute, December 1990.
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on Environment, Community Development and Race in the United States.
Washington, D. C.: The Panos Institute, May 1990.
Race, Poverty & the
Environment
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sponsored by the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and the Earth
Island Institute Urban Habitat Program
-Volume 1, Number 3 [October 1990]
-Volume II, Numbers 3 & 4 [Fall 1991/Winter 1992]
-Volume III, Number 1 [Spring 1992]
-Volume III, Number 4/Volume IV, Number 1 [Winter/Spring
1993]
Southern
Organizing Committee
-envelope addressed to Dr. Novotny from Southern Organizing Committee
for Economic and Social Justice, containing memo to local organizers from
Damu Smith, Conference Coordinator [9-23-1992] - Southern Community/Labor
Conference for Environmental Justice (SOC) Local Organizing Checklist
-DRAFT - Southern Action Manifesto for Environmental & Economic
Justice [1992]
-poster about the Southern Community/Labor Conference for Environmental
Justice [12/4-6/1992]
-MacLean, A. "People's Justice: Citizens Gather in Brunswick, Georgia,
to Indict Local Companies." Retrieved from the World Wide Web: http://www.igc.org/envjustice/communique/brunswick.html
-letter headed "Dear Community Leader" about joining the Neighbors
Keepers Strike Force for environmental justice, from the Southern Organizing
Committee for Economic & Social Justice [10-1-1992]
-What the Southern Organizing Committee Is
-The Environmental Justice Project of the Southern Organizing Committee
for Economic and Social Justice (SOC) Report on Activities, January, 1992-September,
1993
-A National Call to Action, memo from SOC's Youth Task Force
-Southern Community/Labor Conference, brochure about conference
in Birmingham, AL [May 3-5, 1991]
-photocopy of letter to President Clinton, from Connie Tucker (Region
IV Environmental Justice Task Force), on SOC letterhead, asking for immediate
action by the Region IV EPA office, with list of 42 demands attached [4-7-1992]
Southwest
Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
-Campaign for Sustainable Communities, brochure about one of
the organization’s activites
-Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice -
handout about organization (English on one side, Spanish on the other)
-Moore, Richard. “Confronting Environmemtal Racism.” Crossroads,
6-8 [April, 1992]
-Abstract: Eco-Justice Border Hearings - El Paso - May 13-14th 1994
-The Bargaining Chip: Bulletin of the Electronic Industry Good Neighbor
Campaign, collaborative effort between the Campaign for Responsible
Technology and the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
[January, 1994]
-2 brochures (same title) - Southwest Network for Environmental
and Economic Justice
SouthWest Organizing Project
(SWOP)
-two SWOP brochures
-Development, Environment and Race in New Mexico. Albuquerque:
SouthWest Organizing Project, 1994. (2 copies)
-SWOP newsletter - Voces Unidas
-Volume 1, Number 3 [Third Quarter, 1991]
-Volume 2, Number 2 [December 1992]
-Volume 3, Number 1 [April 1993] (2 copies)
-Volume 3, Number 2 [August 1993]
- SWOP, special supplement to Voces Unidas [Fall
1993]
-SWOP Community Update [October 1993]
-SouthWest Organizing Project - 1981-1991: A Decade of Struggle
for Justice. Albuquerque: Southwest Community Resources, Inc., 1991.
-Report on the Interfaith Hearings on Toxic Poisoning in Communities
of Color. Albuquerque: SouthWest Organizing Project, 1993.
-Campaign Work Review - SouthWest Organizing Project 1993
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Response,
October, 1991. (Reprinted by SWOP, 5/1992)
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New
Solutions, March 18, 1991. (Reprinted by SWOP, 6/1992)
-SouthWest Organizing Project, part of information packet about
SWOP
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by Richard Moore, Co-Director of SWOP, at the Annual Briefing of the Interfaith
Impact for Justice and Peace, Washington, DC [March 18, 1991]
Student Environmental Action Coalition
(SEAC)
-Student Environmental Action Coalition Sourcebook. Chapel Hill:
SEAC.
-Threshold (movement magazine of SEAC), 5(7) [April, 1993]
Urban Environment Conference, Inc. (UEC)
-three UEC brochures
-Labor, Minorities and Environmentalists Together
-Urban Environment Conference Inc.: Labor, Minorities and
Environmentalists. . . Together
-Minorities + Discrimination + Air Pollution = The Poisonous
Prison
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Reagan,
Toxics and Minorities: A Policy Report by the Urban Environment Conference,
Inc. Preface by John Conyers, Jr. Washington, DC:
Urban Environment Conference, Inc., September 1984.
-America’s Forgotten Environment: A Report on how OSHA has drifted
away from its true mission to protect workers where they work.
Washington, DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc., 1989.
-The Environment Movement and Poor People’s Issues – The Urban Environment
-Taking Back Our Health: A Training Manual on Job Safety and Health
for Black and Latino Workers. Second printing. Washington,
DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc., May 1983.
-Role of the Urban Environment Conference, on back is copy of
a news article - “Broadening the Environmental Movement,” Washington Post,
January 6, 1973. (3 copies)
-Children’s Urban Environment: Children’s March for Survival
-We care about: Lead poisoning. . . occupational noise. . . mass
transit. . . land use. . . clean air. . . toxic substances. . . parks.
Washington, DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc. (5 copies)
-Regional Workshops Program. Washington, DC: Urban Environment
Conference, Inc., August 1978.
-UEC and the Urban Environment Foundation. Washington,
DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc., November 1976.
-Agenda, UEC meeting, March 1, 1972
-Housing Abandonment: A Social and Environment Crisis.
Washington, DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc.
-Legislative and Advocacy Program, Autumn 1981 - Summer 1982.
Washington, DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc.
-Educational Activities, Autumn 1981 - Summer 1982. Washington,
DC: Urban Environment Conference, Inc.
-Occupational Health and Safety Education for Women, Minorities
and New Public Service Employees. Washington, DC: Urban Environment
Conference, Inc., March 1979. (2 copies)
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Urban Environment Conference, Inc.
-Regional Workshops Program. Washington, DC: Urban Environment
Conference, Inc., March 1979.
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to Minority Communities, Nov. 18-20, 1983, Ramada Hotel, New Orleans, La.
Washington, DC: UEC, 1983.
-photocopy of excerpts from Taking Back Our Health, 1984, companion
to previous volume
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An update of the 1987 report on the racial and socioeconomic characteristics
of communities with hazardous waste sites. Introduction by J.
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