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The panel "Environmental Racism and Genetic Engineering" will be at 7:30 pm, Saturday, May 17. It will link struggles for justice and healthy communities with threats posed by genetic technologies. The panel will bring together people who work on environmental justice advocacy with those who work on genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture and human genetic technologies. It will be a unique opportunity to discuss how genetic technologies may pose a hazard to the health of people of color and low-income people, and how the technologies are being used to discriminate against and exploit communities of color.
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AREC initially began under the title of Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) Anti-Racism Committee (FESARC), in 1994. From 1994-2001, AREC successfully advocated for the integration of anti-racism work within the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York. In 2000-2001, AREC researched and assembled a variety of resources – including film, video, books, journal articles and other media – in the area of environmental justice and racism. This collection is now accessible to all FES members, in the resource centre of the faculty, and has been designed so that course directors may integrate this literature within their curricula. To that end, members of AREC served as members and advisors on the Bachelor of Environmental Studies Curriculum Subcommittee to ensure that anti-racist education was incorporated in the undergraduate curriculum.
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The Gathering will ... include workshops on resistance to GE crops in Africa, farmer organizing, and on globalization, biowarfare, environmental racism and the impacts of genetic engineering on indigenous agriculture worldwide. The event is the seventh in a series of international grassroots gatherings known as "Biodevastation."
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Baylor introduced Sheila Holt-Orstead of Dickson, Tenn. as a poster child of the impact of environmental racism. Holt-Orstead noted that Dickson County officials built a dump next to her family’s farm in 1968, and allowed toxic waste to be dumped there over the years.
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The following articles examine the history and future of garbage disposal in Holly Springs and how Wake County's planned countywide dump illustrates the larger issues of environmental racism and potentially faulty federal policy for municipal solid waste disposal. The first article relates the county's long-planned decision to open a solid waste landfill in Holly Springs with previous decisions that opened four other dumps. It will demonstrate a pattern of decision-making by officials that excluded participation of affected black residents in Holly Springs. The article ... will discuss whether officials should have encouraged more public input during the site selection process and whether they should have considered a fairness principle in their siting decision.
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Much of the original support for the theory of environmental racism arose from studies of the siting of hazardous waste facilities. Yet demographic researchers from the University of Massachusetts found that the census tracts containing hazardous waste facilities are no more likely than other tracts to have higher than average percentages of blacks or Hispanics. In addition:
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