Committee: The Natural Environment (in New Orleans);
Topic: Environmental Racism;
Sponsor (community you represent): The United States;
To the General Assembly/ social justice community demands equal environmental protection for all no matter social economic background;
Deeply concerned about minorities health for living in communities that produce acid rain through power plants;
Realizing that people who are non- European or live in low social economic communities are targeted by energy corporations that they do not notice at first. (It is not a tangible attack at first or that is how it feels);
Encouraging people to became educated about these environment in order to demand equal treatment when decisions about their own community are in process;
Affirming that the EPA regulates and relocates or reduces and reconstructs power plants, landfills and other environmental pollutions that needs to be located somewhere with less human population;
Stressing that survivors who have lived in these toxic environments end up having illnesses in the long run. Those who do not experience a quality of high life are mostly the young or elderly;
Taking into account the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization who has made progress and demanded the two power plants in the south side of Chicago will be shut down by December 2012 and 2014.
1- Propose a bill that will regulate landfills and toxic wer plants to move somewhere where th effects wont effect anyone, such as for low-inome communities. In a desert or anywhere that is mles away from people population;
2- Applauds to Enlace, Ecco Echo, and LVEJO for fighting and accomplishing goals that better our communities in terms of environmental decisons;
3- Although these power plants are leaving, I suggest that we find other methos that will benefit all gruops of people in the world;
4- Demands that equal protection for all and a stop to the discrimination through environmental actions;
5- Expresses the idea that hamful chemicals are deadly and should be a big deal for people to protest against.
How Black and Brown are affected
This man right here reveal the truth about how African and Mexican American communities are affected through the environment. Although the video might be short it gives out a lot of information about communities of color and how some corporations do not have to follow the air pollution regulations.