Not in My Backyard!

In college I learned about the Oakland base organization known as the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). They gave a presentation at the school's coffee shop, which UCD people would know it as the CoHo. They talked about Environmental Racism, which continues to effect us everyday.

The environment of where you live, work and play affect your health. From the air that you breath from the toxic underneath the floor that you walk on, the water from your sink that you may use to wash your food, body and drink to the dirt where you may use to grow your food or let your children play in. These poisons are not always visible, but it's there and many people of color live in these places. Why?

Do you know what's in your neighborhood or where the nearest polluting facilities like landfills, oil refineries and power plants, are at? Maybe you even live on a Superfund site right now. Don't know what that mean, maybe you should look it up.


Somewhere between CA and NV