Health and Environmental Justice
The Health and Environmental Justice Collection includes a range of audio, video, and paper materials concerning movements that fight corporate and state exploitation of public health and the environment. Many materials within the collection intersect with anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-war movements The collection features a diverse set of narratives from across the globe with topics ranging from international perspectives on the dangers of nuclear power and indigenous land rights to domestic issues of environmental racism, AIDS in the Third World, food sovereignty,and disparity in pregnancy-related deaths. A highlight of the collection is the information on environmental activists like Judi Bari, Jeff Luers, and members of the Plowshares Movement. The collection includes newsletters and interviews detailing their actions as well as long form pieces that explore the methods of the environmentalist movement. This collection also contains copies of Turnover, a newsletter of the People's Food System in the Bay Area during the mid-1970s.
Subcollections
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Turnover
Turnover was the newsletter of the People's Food System, a Bay Area network of food collectives that provided cheap organic produce from 1973 to 1978.
Documents
![Environmentalism: Lack of Racial Diversity](images/thumbnails//26639.jpg)
![Who Bombed Judi Bari? FBI Repression of Activists in the 90's](images/thumbnails//35915.jpg)
![The Proper Way to Harvest Wheat? Direct Action for the 90's](images/thumbnails//35951.jpg)
![War in the Gulf: An Enviromental Perspective](images/thumbnails//37788.jpg)