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| Environmental Justice Action Group (EJAG) The Environmental Justice Action Group (EJAG) is a grassroots, membership-driven, non-profit organization formed in September, 1996, by a group of Northeast Portland residents. EJAG is dedicated to developing and utilizing community-based leadership in people of color and low-income communities to address the issues of health, safety and environmental justice. |
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| Organizing People, Activating Leaders (OPAL)* OPAL is a non-profit organization formed in 2005 to engage individuals around issues of public health, including Brownfields and land-use/zoning practices, political organizing, and civic participation in the low-income communities of the Portland Metro area. OPAL encourages proactive community involvement and is a people of color led organization, concerned with promotion of atypical populations (minorities, low-income, women, etc.) in the social change arena. * Website is under construction, but will be available Spring of 2006. Until then, all inquiries can be emailed to opalpdx@yahoo.com. |
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| Coalition for a Livable Future (CLF) The Coalition for a Livable Future is a network of 60 community-based organizations working together to create a more equitable and sustainable Portland metropolitan region. Through research, policy advocacy, and public education, CLF works to create and preserve affordable housing; ensure clean water; protect open space, wildlife habitat and farmland; create living wage jobs; provide real transportation choices; and end hunger in our community. CLF emphasizes connections between the issues and between the cities, towns and counties that make up our region. In promoting "regionalism," CLF recognizes that the communities within our urban area are interdependent and that cooperation will improve the economic, social, and environmental health of the metropolitan region as a whole. |
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| Cascade Resources Advocacy Group (CRAG) Cascade Resources Advocacy Group is a public interest, non-profit law center that defends and protects Pacific Northwest coasts, forests, rivers, wildlands, wildlife, and communities through education, organizing and strategic litigation. CRAG was founded in the summer of 2001 with the primary purpose of building the capacity of many other dedicated individuals and organizations striving to create positive change. In addition to helping existing organizations with issues ranging from litigation to commenting on rulemaking, CRAG is also helping community-based groups get formally organized and providing guidance to these groups on day-to-day operational issues, as well as outreach and education to their members and the general public. CRAG's work is geared towards promoting fiscally-responsible environmental conservation and sustainable natural resource management by increasing the capacity of our clients to achieve their own missions. |
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| Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) CCEJ, the first environmental justice group in the Seattle area, was formed in 1993 by a coalition of concerned citizens, organizations, and residents impacted by economic and environmental justice. CCEJ is a multi-issue, grassroots, multiethnic, nonprofit, 501 (c) 3 organizing on a local and regional level. CCEJ’s mission is to achieve environmental and economic justice in low income communities and communities of color by emphasizing the need to leverage community power, not just achieve environmental or social justice victories. CCEJ focuses on enabling communities to advocate for themselves, leadership development, and increasing knowledge. Through intense grassroots mobilization and political activism, CCEJ seeks to level unequal distributions of power. |
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| Center for Social and Environmental Justice The Center for Social and Environmental Justice acts to fulfill Washington State University's land grant mission by engaging community capacities to address poverty, inequality, discrimination, and unequally borne environmental dangers. To eliminate poverty, inequality and environmental degradation, we must address the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism. The Center supports interdisciplinary approaches to positive cultural, political, social, economic and environmental change. University, nonprofit, non-governmental, grassroots, and tribal groups will all benefit from overcoming multiple barriers in order to achieve solutions that are sustainable and effective. We believe the most useful collaborations will be suggested and initiated by non-university groups articulating their needs and directing research or service projects. |
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| The Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) CAER is a University of Oregon student-based group dedicated to providing a forum for education and organization to promote environmental justice. CAER brings together the community and students from the Survival Center, Multicultural Center, ethnic student unions, and the Law School - organizations that have not all traditionally worked together for an annual conference. |
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| ScoreCard.Org To find out how bad the pollution is in your zipcode and who the major polluters are. |
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| United States Environmental Protection Agency EJ Homepage (EPA) |
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