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December 2007 Newsletter- Social Equity! Featured ArticleGreen Jobs Help Curb Poverty, Climate Change
Our world is getting hotter - and poor communities are the most vulnerable to its impacts. Can we heal the planet AND fight poverty at the same time? We can, and we must. Since the Kyoto Protocol was first introduced in 1997, consciousness has exploded around the urgent need to tackle the global climate crisis. New clean energy solutions and carbon reduction policies are being implemented - and popular movements are emerging to move students, citizens, and public officials from concern to action. People Before Profits: Growing Momentum in the Bayview
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), a multi-racial organization of low-income families and workers, is fighting a campaign to expose the corporation responsible for the project: Lennar BVHP LLC. POWER has joined forces with a coalition of community organizations and faith-based institutions to stop the environmental racism and predatory development perpetrated by Lennar. Inner ViewPutting the Social in Social Justice
Unfortunately, the struggle for social justice is all too often thought of as a movement conducted on the societal plane by professionals in court, government, the media or the marketplace. While these are often the dramatic loci of action, where the stakes seem highest, and where battles are waged in the public arena, often over long periods, they are not the only places to build power. |
