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== Post news items waiting to be sorted on this page[https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=Posting&action=edit Edit source] == | == Post news items waiting to be sorted on this page[https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=Posting&action=edit Edit source] == | ||
=====As U.N. Report Sounds Alarm on Environmental Racism in Cancer Alley, Community Faces Further Pollution with Proposed Grain Elevator | |||
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[https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/un-report-sounds-alarm-environmental-racism-cancer-alley-community-faces-further by ACLU of Louisiana 3/3/21 ACLU] | |||
NEW ORLEANS – With international human rights experts sounding the alarm over environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, the ACLU of Louisiana is joining other grassroots organizations in opposing proposed construction of a new grain terminal in St. John the Baptist Parish. The proposed Greenfield Louisiana project, which would involve clearing land and building a grain elevator, poses life threatening health and safety consequences to residents of an area so polluted by oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and waste dumps that it is now known as “Cancer Alley.” | |||
=====How this poet shows the way ‘racism hits the body’===== | =====How this poet shows the way ‘racism hits the body’===== | ||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/how-this-poet-shows-the-way-racism-hits-the-body by Courtney Vinapal 29/7/20 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/how-this-poet-shows-the-way-racism-hits-the-body by Courtney Vinapal 29/7/20 PBS NEWS] | ||
