UCSC Environmental Justice

06/07/2013

Check out this video with footage from the Earth Day Action rally and protest that took place on April 22nd!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHH0VIM6d04&feature=youtu.be

On April 22nd at the U.S. EPA's Region IX Office in San Francisco, over 65 organizations came out for a historic Bay Area action to tell the White House, Con...

05/31/2013

Please like and support the grass roots organization that has inspired low-income and working class urban, rural, and indigenous communities to take action against the environmental injustices that these communities face. Follow Greenaction for health and environmental justice awareness!

Greenaction fights for health and environmental justice together with marginalized urban, rural, and Indigenous communities.

04/30/2013

Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes — including driling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and constructing the Keys...

04/30/2013

Please click on the link and sign up if you are interested in participating and supporting the Walkathon for Health and Environmental Justice this Sunday!! Have a Grateful day!

Please join Greenaction and our friends from Kettleman City, Bayview Hunters Point, Richmond and other communities suffering from pollution in the 3rd Annual Walkathon for Health and Environmental Justice!

04/18/2013

Information on Kettleman City !!

One of the defining struggles in the history of the environmental health and justice movement continues in Kettleman City, Kings County, in the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Kettleman City is a low-income, predominantly Spanish-speaking, Latino community with approximately 1,500 resident...

04/18/2013

NO to Incinerators in Disguise! Yes to Zero waste!

While traditional incinerators burn the waste directly, this new generation of what we call “incinerators in disguise” are essentially two-stage incineration. These gasification, plasma arc and pyrolysis technologies typically heat the waste in a chamber, then burn the gases (called “syngas”) that r...

04/18/2013

PLEASE COME SUPPORT Greenaction and over 60 community organizations on EARTH DAY from 12pm-2pm in San Francisco to:
-Stop the expansion of Hazardous waste landfill in Kettleman City!
-Stop the Keystone XL pipeline!
-Stop the proposed plasma arc garbage incinerator in Gonzales!
-Stop pollution from Chevron in Richmond!
-Stop Environmental Racism!
-Stop Environmental injustice!!
**MEET AT QUARRY PLAZA AT 9:30AM if you would like to ride with other passionate UCSC students! please email [email protected] to RSVP***** Thanks!! :)

04/18/2013

Help us and Greenaction put a stop to environmental racism in farmworker and indigenous communities. Join us in San Francisco to tell the EPA to stop the expansion of hazardous waste facilities and waste incinerators near our homes!!