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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Pradnya Garud joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the role of unions in climate and environmental justice. Just just to highlight that point a little bit: so the ownership of land, employment and leadership of private sector and public sectors is usually dominated by few upper caste groups.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

More than 13 defenders — mostly Indigenous — of the Sierra de Manantlán have been murdered since 1986, according to the nonprofit organization Tskini, which works with Marcos’ community to defend their lands and people. Marcos helped organize a rally to demand his immediate release in Telcruz, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Laura Diaz on how social and environmental stress impact childrens health And yet, most of our work at Partners for Equity and Research (the name of our environmental justice hub at Sonoma State University) has been done free of charge.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

I also spoke with dozens of formerly incarcerated people who explained that the physical and mental suffering they endured in prisons from both environmental and social factors left them in much worse shape than before their sentences. One prevalent hazard I studied was air pollution.

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APRIL 9, 2025

Proponents of the plant hoped it would create local jobs and help reduce plastic waste, while opponents called it a false solution that would turn plastic waste into climate-warming and health-harming air pollution. Advocates worried the IRG plant would add to the pollution burden and health problems in both communities.

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