Protecting the Human Right to Return with Dignity & Justice After Hurricane Katrina

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Gulf Coast reconstruction policies by the Bush Administration have created a housing crisis that unjustly prolongs the displacement of thousands of predominantly African American residents, subjected workers to discrimination, exploitation, and abuse, prioritized the funding of charter schools that can exercise selective admissions criteria to exclude students,

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Defending and Advancing the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Across the United States, people of color and poor communities have been subjected to toxic pollution and other environmental hazards in the places where we live, work, and play.  The U.S. government has established a complex environmental regulatory system that facilitates and perpetuates environmental racism and injustice.  By permitting toxic and hazardous facilities to operate

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