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Help Fight Environmental Racism!
AMIRI BARAKA
Wise I
WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
Visit AmiriBaraka.com
MALIK RAHIM lives in Algiers Point in New Orleans. In the aftermath of the hurricane, when relief efforts failed, Rahim helped form the Common Ground Collective to help those in need. He's also helped form Rebuild Green which is a group promoting solar energy, green building techniques, urban gardens, and other environmentally friendly ways of rebuilding New Orleans.
DAMU SMITH is a longtime peaceworker and activist. Damu has fought on behalf of many causes, from civil rights, to protecting the environment, to ending war. Recently, Smith founded Black Voices for Peace and helped form the National Black Environmental Justice Network of which he is currently the executive director Mr. Smith has been diagnosed with cancer and needs your help. Please contact http://www.damusmith.org/.
Dr. BEVERLY WRIGHT has been a leader in exposing the environmental harms in poor black communities in the south. She is the founder and director of the Deep South Environmental Justice Center at Xavier University. To find out more about Dr. Wright, click here.
SEND MONEY AND OFFER HOUSING there are many relief efforts underway. participate. FOOD NOT BOMBS
Start a chapter locally or send money.
Eliminate racism and classism in your neighborhood, city, and state. In your workplace, place of worship, at your gym, in the stores you shop at, at your kids' schools. In your home. And work for a clean, safe environment everywhere. Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center to find out how you can help stop racism.
To find out more about climate change and what you can do to help implement just climate policies, check out the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.
Wise I
WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
Visit AmiriBaraka.com
MALIK RAHIM lives in Algiers Point in New Orleans. In the aftermath of the hurricane, when relief efforts failed, Rahim helped form the Common Ground Collective to help those in need. He's also helped form Rebuild Green which is a group promoting solar energy, green building techniques, urban gardens, and other environmentally friendly ways of rebuilding New Orleans.
DAMU SMITH is a longtime peaceworker and activist. Damu has fought on behalf of many causes, from civil rights, to protecting the environment, to ending war. Recently, Smith founded Black Voices for Peace and helped form the National Black Environmental Justice Network of which he is currently the executive director Mr. Smith has been diagnosed with cancer and needs your help. Please contact http://www.damusmith.org/.
Dr. BEVERLY WRIGHT has been a leader in exposing the environmental harms in poor black communities in the south. She is the founder and director of the Deep South Environmental Justice Center at Xavier University. To find out more about Dr. Wright, click here.
SEND MONEY AND OFFER HOUSING there are many relief efforts underway. participate. FOOD NOT BOMBS
Start a chapter locally or send money.
Eliminate racism and classism in your neighborhood, city, and state. In your workplace, place of worship, at your gym, in the stores you shop at, at your kids' schools. In your home. And work for a clean, safe environment everywhere. Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center to find out how you can help stop racism.
To find out more about climate change and what you can do to help implement just climate policies, check out the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.
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Categories: Activism (89) | Classism (23) | Enviro-racism (7) | Episode 6 (8) | Grass Roots Organizing (39) | Racism (16) |
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Categories: Activism (89) | Classism (23) | Enviro-racism (7) | Episode 6 (8) | Grass Roots Organizing (39) | Racism (16) |
Downloads: Hi/Lo
