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Organizing against oil companies’ racism [S&L Magazine]
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Interview with environmental justice leader Henry Clark
Organizing against oil companies’ racism
For decades, the movement to protect the environment was mainly concentrated in middle-class communities and focused on issues far removed from the environmental crisis in urban areas.
The West County Toxics Coalition, which operates in North Richmond, California, has played a vital role in urbanizing the environmental justice struggle.
Not only has this organization exposed the crisis within urban areas, it has connected environmental violations to the inherent racism of toxic dumping in poor areas.
In January, Socialism and Liberation’s Keith Pavlik interviewed Henry Clark, executive director of West County Toxics Coalition, about the situation in North Richmond and the fight for environmental justice and against racism.
Henry Clark leads protest against toxic pollution.
Photo: Bill Hackwell
How long have you been involved in the struggle for environmental justice against toxic racism?
I have been involved in the environmental justice movement for about 21 years now.
In the early 1980s, I started working in North Richmond, Calif.
What is the particular situation in North Richmond with environmental racism?
We have a devastating situation there.
I was born in North Richmond in 1944, and raised there adjac...
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