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What is Environmental Justice? How is related to all the talk about sustainability? According to the EPA, "Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies." Here at Environmental Justice at Tufts University, we aim to find the intersection between environmental issues and social injustice both on and off campus. Throughout the semester, a group of us have been dedicating our time to the literatures of people from all over the world who are confronting environmental injustice. We've looked at places in South Africa, the United States, Bengal, Ghana, Guayo, and Tanzania to name a few. These communities bear the disproportionate environmental burden of unjust social practices controlled on both a local and global scale. By analyzing a few of situations here at Tufts, we hope to define environmental justice on a large scale, deconstruct those social practices that cause environmental injustice and take action against these systems.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

"Left" Read by Nikki Finney

Poet Nikky Finney was born in 1957 in South Carolina. The daughter of a lawyer and teacher, Finney’s parents were both active in the Civil Rights movement and her childhood was shaped by the turmoil and unrest of the South in the 1960s and ‘70s. In an interview with theOxford American, Finney noted: “I've never been far away from the human-rights struggle black people have been involved with in the South. That has been one of the backdrops of my entire life.” 

 Click on the link below to watch American poet Nikki Finney perform her powerful piece "Left."  The poem addresses environmental racism in relation to Hurricane Katrina.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6z9QMFKNw 




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