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Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) is considered by many to be the mother of environmental justice. For more than 30 years, she pressed local officials and corporations to clean up toxic waste and pollution in her southeast Chicago community of Altgeld Gardens. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery)
She was a community activist.
She was an ambassador of Altgeld Gardens.
She was an early mentor to Barack Obama.
She was a thorn in the side of the Chicago waste industry.
She was a wife and mother of seven children.
She is the mother of the environmental justice movement.
For more than 30 years, Hazel Johnson worked to clean up her corner of Chicago s southeast side. Her relentless advocacy made her a fixture in local news, and her story has been told in profiles and books and kept alive among her peers in the struggle for environmental justice. But one aspect of her life that s been less explored is her faith.
Opinion: Environmental justice must be foundational to the new School of Sustainability
Artwork created to support the first comprehensive Intro to Environmental Justice course at Stanford, first offered in fall 2018. By Stephanie Muscat, used with permission.
on January 27, 2021
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
We are writing as a diverse group of Stanford staff, students, and faculty committed to Environmental Justice for Sustainability at Stanford. This weekend, faculty will gather for a deliberative democracy process guiding plans for the new School of Sustainability and Climate (SoSaC). We strongly encourage serious discussion on this vital question: how will Stanford build a truly innovative institution that addresses the most importan