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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>“Workshop and discussion
on Environmental Justice Issues in </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>South Africa</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Tuesday, May 3</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>With Toussaint Losier,
Program Coordinator for groundWork </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>USA</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The workshop will discuss
issues of environmental justice in </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>South Africa</span></font><font
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including how environmental racism was tied up in the history of colonial
oppression and apartheid policy. The workshop will also look at what black
communities in South Africa have done to fight for environmental justice, and
how the lesson learned in South Africa are instructive for fostering a process
for sustainable development on the African continent. This is part of the
outreach to high school and college students in the </span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>New
England</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> region. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>groundWork </span></font><font
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is a Boston-based organization that works to improve the health and daily lives
of communities in </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>South Africa</span></font><font
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by connecting those communities with their counterparts in the </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>US</span></font><font
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around issues of industrial pollution and environmental justice. By working in
close collaboration with the leading South African environmental justice NGO,
we provide South African community developmental and environmental groups with
resources and expertise to address the neglected environment in which black
South Africans live and assist in the building of a strong environmental justice
movement that is enriched by the experiences of and networked closely with
other US EJ groups. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Sponsored by MIT SfGS (<a
href="http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www">http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www</a>) and
groundWork </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>USA</span></font><font
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"Courier New";color:navy'> (</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="www.groundwork-usa.org">www.groundwork-usa.org</a> , <a
href="www.groundwork.org.za">www.groundwork.org.za</a>)</span></font></p>
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