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Editor’s Note: Beginning June 4, and continuing over the next several weeks, Environmental Health News will publish Pollution, Poverty, People of Color, a series of stories examining environmental justice issues. For this project, EHN dispatched reporters to seven communities across the United States to report on their struggles to cope with an array of environmental threats. On the 30th anniversary of a North Carolina battle that is widely considered the birth of the environmental justice movement, our reporters and photojournalists found a legacy of lingering problems and newly emerging threats that are jeopardizing people of color in low-income communities. Their stories resonate with all of us, no matter what color or class. - Marla Cone ....
Up to 50% of fatal encounters with law enforcement involve someone with a mental illness, a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine estimated. And nearly 1 in 4 people fatally shot by police since 2015 had a mental illness, including a disproportionate number of people of color, according to a Washington Post database of fatal shootings by on-duty officers. There has been a growing consensus that armed officers are not the responders best-suited for mental health emergency calls after Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died in police custody in Rochester, New York, in March 2020 as he was suffering a mental health crisis. ....
Ralph C. Martin grew up on his family farm in Wallenstein, ON. His Ph.D. is in Plant Science from McGill University. In 2001, he founded the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (https://www.dal.ca/faculty/agriculture/oacc/en-home.html and in 2011, was appointed as Professor and Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production at the University of Guelph. He retired in 2019. See information about his book Food Security: From Excess to Enough at www.ralphmartin.ca 1 Article Best News Coverage ....
I think virtually all times where race is injected into discussion or protest about solving any problem are usually counterproductive in this country at this stage of its development. ESPECIALLY UNDER TRUMP AS PRESIDENT, he just loved it when that happened! This is precisely still the reason many poor whites are Trumpie fans! They especially don t like inserting race identity politics into talking about something that is a problem that they also experience! I.E., income, housing, jobs.VOTING ACCESS, to name one now. They also see that many liberal elites support the racializing of problems that affect more than one color of skin. This infuriates them further. ....
By Zachary Cohen & Lauren Fox @CNN.com Updated 1:33 PM ET, Fri April 2 The US Capitol is on lockdown due to an external security threat. An announcement made over the PA system told everyone to stay indoors and away from windows.. CNN's Lauren Fox reports seeing ambulances and a helicopter outside the building. One person was seen on a stretcher. ....