Southeast Environmental Task Force

09/13/2024

08/11/2024

08/08/2024

The Bryant Williams Environmental Justice Fellowship (BWEJF) announced that after a highly competitive application process their 2024-2025 Bryant Williams Environmental Justice Fellow is Xochyl Perez. Please join us in welcoming and congratulating her on this incredible award. Xochyl will be placed with us at the Southeast Environmental Task Force (SETF). As a longtime environmental justice community organization which Bryant had deep ties with, including serving as Board President and as a friend and mentor to our current co-Executive Director Olga Bautista.

Xochyl is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Ecosystem Science and Management. Xochyl has dedicated her career to empowering young Chicago leaders from frontline communities, implementing ecological principles to address environmental justice issues, and supporting frontline communities in their pursuit of justice.

Welcome aboard Xochyl!

Save the Date for Saturday, September 14th for our official welcome event for Xochyl and kick-off for the 2024-2025 Fellowship year. You can find more information at: https://www.chicagofrontlines.org/bwejfellowship

06/07/2024

Anyone have old magazines they can donate? LMK

06/16/2023

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06/16/2023

Will you be joining us for the ECOFEST BLOCK PARTY this weekend?🎉🥳🎉

Southeast Environmental Task Force, 13300 S. Baltimore Ave. Please see the attached flyer.

Come join us this Saturday for art, food, music, poetry, and much more!

Hegewisch Business Association will be selling Beer Fest tickets and promoting Hegewisch Fest. HBA will also be selling our Happy Birthday Hegewisch items, t-shirts, etc.

You can also inquire about being a craft/retail or food vendor at Hegewisch Fest. The not-for-profit is also welcome.

We will also be selling our Happy Birthday Hegewisch items, t-shirts, etc.

Come join us this Saturday and get your Hegewisch memorabilia.

05/26/2023

The three-year binding agreement with the federal government will see reforms in City Hall planning, zoning and land-use practices.

05/15/2023

The Southeast Environmental Task Force is supporting the Migrants Mutual Aid effort at nearby police stations. Right now there is a need for tents, sleeping bags, yoga mats and blankets. We will be purchasing some of these things and also welcome donations of these items. Please DM for pick up or drop off coordination. TIA

05/14/2023

05/13/2023

Yesterday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced an executive order on environmental justice. It commits the city to a number of actions including completion of the cumulative impact assessment, hiring a permanent position to make the zoning and planning process more accessible to the public, and requiring city departments to develop EJ Action Plans.

This is the direct result of organizing and leadership of EJ orgs and activists across the city including Chicago Environmental Justice Network BIG: Blacks in Green Neighbors For Environmental Justice People for Community Recovery Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO).

We hope that Mayor-elect Johnson uses this as a platform to continue to address the environmental harms experienced disproportionately by Black, Latinx and low-income Chicagoans.

05/13/2023