[Env seminars] FW: Environmental Justice Workshop - Tues, May 3

[Beth Conlin]

"Workshop and discussion on Environmental Justice Issues in South Africa"

 

Tuesday, May 3

6pm in 1-246

 

With Toussaint Losier, Program Coordinator for groundWork USA

 

The workshop will discuss issues of environmental justice in South Africa
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 New England
region. 

 

groundWork USA is a Boston-based organization that works to improve the
health and daily lives of communities in South Africa by connecting those
communities with their counterparts in the US 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. 

 

Sponsored by MIT SfGS (http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www) and groundWork USA
(www.groundwork-usa.org , www.groundwork.org.za)

 

 

 

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