Robert Bullard (RB): The environmental justice movement has basically redefined what environmentalism is all about. It basically says that the environment is everything: where we live, work, play, go to school, as well as the physical and natural world. And so we can't separate the physical environment from the cultural environment. We have to talk about making sure that justice is integrated throughout all of the stuff that we do. (from the interview)
Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice. (from website)
"I’m a brown-skinned girl who spent the first part of her childhood drenched by tropical rainfall in the shadow of formidable mountains overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. I ran barefoot on packed soil, sometimes wiggling away from frightening critters and insects. I spent the other half of my childhood in the repetitive bosom of American suburbia, biking through the nearby woods and across small bubbling creeks, taking weekend trips to nearby cities where the shadows of manmade towers looked on at me." (from the post)
Naomi Klein speaks with writer, spoken-word artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about “extractivism,” why it’s important to talk about memories of the land, and what’s next for Idle No More. (from article description)
