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A Community Vision for a Better
Future in North Richmond:
The Parchester Village Neighborhood Council
and the North Richmond Shoreline Open Space Alliance has been fighting to
preserve the North Richmond Shoreline, an important ecological and social
resource for communities of color in Richmond.
Click here to learn more about the
struggle for open space in North Richmond!
Enviromental Justice on the
Klamath River:
The Karuk, Yurok, Hoopa and Klamath Tribes once thrived throughout the
Klamath Basin, depending on and taking care of salmon runs and
watershed-wide wildlife. In just fifty years, generations
of stewardship along the Klamath River were destroyed by dams that provide
irrigation water for farmers and hydroelectric power. Now, salmon
runs have been dratically depleted, river
wildlife threatened, and the Tribes no longer have their traditional diet
or economic livelihoods.
Read more
about the Tribe's efforts to restore the Klamath Basin!
Addressing the Drinking Water crisis
in the Central Valley
Many low-income, predominately Latino communities lack safe, clean,
affordable drinking water. Years of agriculture, food processing and dairy
production have contaminated California's groundwater, which many small,
rural communities rely on for drinking water.
Read
about our efforts to protect California's groundwater, the source of
drinking water for these communities.
The San Diego-Imperial Irrigation
District transition assistance settlement:
Farm working communities in the Imperial Valley are
being heavily impacted by the transfer of water out of agriculture.
While farmers recieve
compensation for the loss of farm land, farm workers often lose their jobs
and may be evicted. Local organizing efforts are working to ensure any
deals include money to offset the loss of jobs and housing for low-income
communities in the area.
Find out more information on this
water justice issue!
Central Coast water quality:
The Central Coast of California is called the
"salad bowl" for all the lettuce and vegetables it produces, but
many farm workers in the area are left to drink contaminated water. EJCW
has been working with local organizations to conduct training on pesticide
and fertilizer contamination in the area.
The
goals of our community-based work are:
- to provide
participants with tools for issue analysis, campaign development and strategy
building, and addressed a wide array of topics
- to bring community and
Environmental Justice activists together to discuss water issues,
promote networking, and engage in peer education and training
activities.
- to facilitate EJCW
members sharing information and resources such as funding and workshop
opportunities
- to provide an
opportunity for groups to support each other, keeping informed of
their work, finding connections among their efforts, and
developing and working for a common community and EJ agenda in water
policy
Regional Workshops
EJCW offers
a variety of different types of workshops for member organizations and
allies.
We
can provide workshops on:
- basic water quality
and education
- advocacy trainings
- water justice
Some of the workshops and
activities we have sponsored are:
- EJCW co-sponsored
three workshops to educate more than 300 community groups on how to
secure funding from the voter-approved park and water bond measures
(Props. 12 and 13)
- EJCW facilitates
participated in the Environmental Health Working Group lobby days and
has assisted in bringing over 100 community activits
to Sacramento to lobby on environmental health legislation
- basic water
education and issue development in communities facing water-related
issues
- local legislative
training seminars to prepare community members for lobbying and
legislative work
- community tours in
conjunction with the regional workshops to provide members a
first-hand look at critical issues affecting communities and a more
personalized opportunity to exchange information about best practice
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