Teachers' Domain; Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill
- Series
- Teachers' Domain
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-2z12n4zj84
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- Description
- Description
- This video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there.
- Description
- What is "environmental justice"? What is "environmental racism"?Explain what Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. meant when he described environmental racism as a "matter of life and death."What are some environmental hazards in your community? How are they regulated? Are there organizations that are trying to prevent such hazards?How would you respond if you heard that a toxic waste dump was planned for your community?
- Description
- In this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism,” learn about the beginning of the environmental justice movement. Meet various experts and leaders who describe the issues of environmental racism and justice, and learn about the watershed event—the controversy over the location of a toxic landfill in Warren County, North Carolina—that brought the issues to national attention in the early 1980s. See footage of the residents protesting the transport of PCB-contaminated soil to their community, and hear about how the incident triggered further investigations into the relationship between communities of color and toxins.
- Topics
- Environment
- Subjects
- Human Influence on Ecology; earth system :: environment :: pollution; social studies; science; Pollution and Contaminants; Working As An Advocate For Others; Government :: Civics; Economics, Society, and Culture; organisms and their environments :: changes :: chemical hazards; humans :: health :: environmental effects; populations and ecosystems :: human impact; earth system :: environment :: chemical pollution; earth system :: environment :: land management
- Rights
- Rights Note:Download and Share,Rights:,Rights Credit:Adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Third party materials courtesy of Jenny Labalme and United Church of Christ. ,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:In Perpetuity,Rights Holder:
- Rights Note:Download and Share,Rights:,Rights Credit:© 2011, © 1994 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:In Perpetuity,Rights Holder:
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:04:33
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publisher: Teachers' Domain
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 1253cd093277558a141af0626861ea28562bd6ef (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Teachers' Domain; Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2z12n4zj84.
- MLA: “Teachers' Domain; Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2z12n4zj84>.
- APA: Teachers' Domain; Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2z12n4zj84