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Environmental Justice

How the Southeast Side Fought Environmental Racism—and Won

Carlos Enriquez, Oscar Sanchez · March 15, 2022

A major polluter was dead set on opening a metal shredding facility in the middle of a working class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southeast Side. It looked like a done deal until community resistance forced the city to prioritize people over profit.

Stylized Old English Map of the Banda Islands

Ending the Curse of Colonialism

Nisha Atalie · January 25, 2022

A new book by Amitav Ghosh explores the beauty, terror, and agency of non-human entities. Sustaining and rebuilding these relationships will be necessary to resist colonialist omnicide.

Chicago Rallies to Stop Line 3

Emma, Carlos Enriquez · August 25, 2021

Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline extension is bringing disaster to our environment. The fight to stop it has to take place on multiple fronts, from Minnesota to the streets of Chicago.

We Must Stop Line 3

Mandy Medley, Erik Wallenberg · August 16, 2021

Behind the climate chaos eclipsing our future is a corporation and their disastrous pipeline project. Stopping Line 3 must become the immediate focal point of all our struggles for a different, better world.

Better than Daley: Hired Truck Kingpin Thrives under Lightfoot

Anthony Moser · March 22, 2021

Corporate polluters continue to make millions from Chicago city government contracts.

Did Chicago Stop Enforcing Environmental Regulations?

Anthony Moser · March 15, 2021

The City of Chicago has failed to keep people safe from toxic polluters during the pandemic.

Powerless in Texas

Snehal Shingavi · February 19, 2021

Capitalist competition and greed lie at the heart of the power outages causing desperation across the state.

Hunger Strikers Fight for All Chicagoans

Breanna Bertacchi, Rory Gilchrist · February 12, 2021

Seven days ago a group of activists started a hunger strike to fight to stop the city from allowing a toxic General Iron metal shredder from being built on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

We Are Not the City’s Garbage Can

Carlos Enriquez · November 11, 2020

Community organizers stand up to a toxic polluter and city officials who continue to practice environmental racism on Chicago’s Southeast side.

The Struggle for Clean Air in Chicago’s Southwest Neighborhoods

Marco Rosaire Rossi · May 12, 2020

The recent demolition of a smokestack in Little Village has exposed vast disparities in city environmental priorities. The demolition is only the latest explosion in a long history of environmental racism and private-sector handouts in Chicago.

George Cardenas is Full of Hot Air

Dana Blanchard · February 23, 2020

Alderman George Cardenas introduced a resolution declaring a climate emergency in Chicago. He helped create the emergency in his own ward.

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