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How Peggy Shepard helped spearhead environmental action in West Harlem
How Peggy Shepard helped spearhead environmental action in West Harlem WE ACT for Environmental Justice / Courtesy of The three co-founders of WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Peggy Shepard the current executive director of WE ACT is pictured on the left, the late Chuck Sutton is in the center, and Miller-Travis is on the right. By Maya Lameche | March 7, 2021, 11:12 PM
In honor of Women’s History Month, Spectator is publishing a series on notable women of Columbia and the West Harlem community. Peggy Shepard, a longtime Black activist for environmental justice in West Harlem, co-founded the organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice and serves as its current executive director.
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Fernando Tormos-Aponte, | March 4, 2021, 10:00 am EDT
On March 4, 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists held its first public event at MIT. On that day, UCS founders staged a teach-in with the goal of disrupting teaching and research to give way to a different kind of teaching reflecting on the misuse of scientific knowledge and protesting the atrocities that the US government perpetrated against the Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.
In a statement distributed to participants of that teach-in, UCS co-founder Kurt Gottfried spoke on behalf of fellow founders about the issues that motivated the day’s action. He expressed a sense of urgency as he decried the undemocratic character of a government that excluded the vast bulk of its constituents from scrutinizing some of the gravest issues. He asked: “Can the American scientific community all those who study, teach, apply or crea