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A Thousand Pages in English: The Kettleman City case that tied translation to a fair environmental review
One afternoon in January 1988, the sheriff of Kings County, California, called a Greenpeace organizer named Bradley Angel in San Francisco.
The Consultant's Memo: The 1984 Cerrell Report, and how South Central L.A. stopped an incinerator
In 1985, Sheila Cannon, a private-duty nurse raising four children in South Central Los Angeles, learned that the city planned to build its first garbage-burning power plant two blocks from her home (National Wildlife, 1991).
Mapping Houston's Garbage: The 1979 lawsuit that first challenged a landfill as racial discrimination
In 1979, the residents of Northwood Manor, a Black, middle-class, suburban neighborhood in northeast Houston, noticed construction going up nearby.
The Site That Failed the Test: How North Carolina chose Warren County for its PCB landfill
Every PCB landfill in America had to pass a test.
Warren County, 1982: The protest that lost, and gave America the words "environmental racism"
In the summer of 1978, a truck drove the back roads of North Carolina with a valve open. The men driving it were getting rid of oil from a Raleigh company called Ward Transformer.
The Policy of blaming working-class's morality.
In the 1920s, vice became pathology. Walking class problems and anxieties were recorded from being a sin in a theological sense and disorder into a disease and degeneration and social hygiene problem. It has been labeled medically to a moral tone, but expanded the reach of intervention:
Austerity was codified as economic policy.
Austerity, defined as a strict or self-denying act or condition, was adopted as an economic policy in the early 1920s. In economic terms, austerity refers to government policies to reduce budget deficits during periods of financial crisis.
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