Preview: Living Downstream Addresses Environmental Justice

Here's a preview of our 12-part podcast, featuring stories from
California and the rest of the country (and the world). We're
doing a deep dive on environmental justice issues. 


 


The timing couldn't be better, as the media is now turning its
attention to this issue with full force. Most recently, the
Washington Post ran a news analysis under this headline: "In the
U.S. Black, Brown and Poor People Suffer the Most from
Environmental Contamination."


 


We start our podcast with a story from East Chicago, Indiana. Why
did municipal authorities build a public housing project on top
of a Superfund site contaminated with lead?


 


(Photo: 350.org, Raphael Bodin, Survival Media Agency)


 


Future stories will visit a testing range where civilians were
doused with Agent Orange, and look at an election in Richmond,
California, where communities organized to reduce the economic
and political power of the oil company that dominated, and still
dominates, city life.


 


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Here's our preview:


 


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