Racism-Solutions

Seeking environmental justice in California’s ‘diesel death zones’

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Before the trucks came, Mira Loma Village was a quiet, 100-home neighborhood of modest ranchers in the city of Jurupa Valley. It was seen as a respite for those seeking open land, big sky, and a break from the constant whir of Los Angeles, just a 50-minute drive west. Miles of equestrian trails thread the city, and in some neighborhoods built specifically for keeping horses, those trails even take the place of sidewalks.
Starting in the 1990s, a 15-square-mile warehouse district was steadily built around the mostly low-income Hispanic community. Thousands of diesel delivery trucks followed. Now, enclosed by a tightening belt of traffic, Mira Loma residents live with ailments they’ve never had before, like chronic asthma, allergies, nosebleeds, and near-constant cold symptoms. Kids’ lungs aren’t developing like they should. Cancer is a constant worry.

Curtis Reliford Peace Activist

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Traveling activist and philanthropist Curtis Reliford came through Eugene, Oregon today.  For 16 years Reliford has traveled the country, providing relief and aid to communities in need through his Follow Your Heart Action Network. He recently joined a Black Lives Matter march in Portland, and is impressed at the response George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has received, in terms of inspiring justice reform.  Currently he’s enroute to Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations in Arizona/New Mexico to provide materials for protecting against and controlling the spread of COVID-19.

Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

Google Doc Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

"This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible. We will continue to add resources."

Racism in Australia-William Hall

Racism in Australia-William Hall 10/28/2019

"They had NO language written down!" Reply: They didn't need writing, their knowledge was mnemonically recorded and indexed against the landscapes it referenced for sharing and passing down the generations via songs, dances, and ritual maps that were repeated at the song lines of the landscape were traversed in their travels. I do suggest that you read Lynne Kelly's works on the management of orally communicated traditional knowledge. In many of its aspects it is just as 'scientific' as our peer-reviewed academic literature is. To say what you did the way you said it reflects your ignorance of the Aboriginals, not the Aboriginals ignorance of the world."No buildings" Reply - not true, Aboriginals were quite capable to build shelters when and where they needed them. Given the harsh nature of the landscape they normally lived in, there were very few areas that could support a year-round population, so they moved to follow seasonal resources so there was no incentive to waste large amounts of time and effort building structures that would only occasionally be inhabited.

White Southerners Who Changed Their Views on Racism

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Paradoxically, Mississippi is probably the site of the most race dialogues in the country, at least per capita...Historian Susan Glisson, 50, was pivotal to Mississippi’s public reckoning when she helped create a forum at the University of Mississippi in 1997 during then president Bill Clinton’s national race initiative. That effort morphed into the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, which designed “Welcome Table” dialogues around Mississippi between people of different races and beliefs....“We don’t start talking about race,” says Glisson. “We start at the level of a human being to help people become self-reflective about who they are, their values. We build a bridge of trust.”