Jul 02 2007
Environmental Justice Activists Converge at the USSF
Guest: Bianca Encinias, campaign organizer with the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
About 10,000 activists from the United States and other countries began gathering last week in Atlanta, Georgia, for the first ever US Social Forum. The USSF is being held in the tradition of the World Social Forum, which in turn was a response to the annual World Economic Forum. Among the litany of causes being represented at the forum was the issue of Environmental justice. I spoke recently with a young activist who traveled to Atlanta to participate in the USSF. Bianca Encinias is a campaign organizer with the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice. Along with a number of other environmental justice activists representing various groups from around the nation, Bianca hoped to connect and strategize with like-minded people about the state of environmental racism and economic injustice among communities of color, and how these various organizations planned to respond.
For more information about the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, visit www.sneej.org, www.myspace.org/sneej1, or call 505-400-9201
For more information about the US Social Forum, visit www.ussf2007.org.
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