Community profile, West Dallas, Texas; unto the third generation

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West Dallas, TX, is a poor, Hispanic area populated with numerous dirty industries, in particular the RSR Corp, shut down in 1984 because of lead contamination of the area. Lead poisoning has been linked to brain damage, and West Dallas residents suffer from other ailments as well. Texas ordered RSR to clean up the area after its closure in 1984, but government officials did not really start exerting pressure until personal-injury suits started appearing in the courts. Many West Dallas residents feel that the area was not listed as a Superfund site because of its minority status.

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Ms. McMurry

Jan 27, 2010 @ 10:22 pm

I am resident that live there since 1968 until 1977 and the west Dallas community was majority African American and those that live doing this time was never awarded due to lead accommodation. How is it that several families records or no where to be found that actually lived in the community not showing up in the Dallas housing authority records or deleted information. This community later in the 90's became Hispanic area. How is the Dallas independent school district is unable to find records of residence that attended the area schools in west Dallas is coming up no records? How ironic is it that the ones they say do not have lead have all or some of the symptoms.Dallas Independent School District is so far behind on requests of documents in reference to the West Dallas area such as maybe working on 2009 of November request of census records, school records, transcripts to determine the validity of your actual claim of living in the west Dallas area. How is it that files or deleted to identify who actually resided in west Dallas. My question is will actual photos will become evidence to identify your residence as another confirmation. Mostly all the african american relocated under dallas housing authority into programs to get from project to house under Turnkey housing and other housing programs within the city Dallas. The original residence resides in the city of Dallas and has been and continue to be denied any of the class action suit.

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Ms. McMurry

Jan 27, 2010 @ 10:22 pm

How is it later i in 96 i relocated back into the west dallas projects and the lived on pointer street which was the last project to be torn down and jose navora school my child attended is completed gone. How is it only the records showed up for my mother my sister and i and a my brother name was totally deleted and showing only the records for Turnkey housing authority.No records found for living in west Dallas prior. Need to remind you i even attended L.G. Pinkston High School,Saint Mary Carmel, and CF Car. Lived on king bridge, Gallagher, MC broom,and other streets. Had father and grandfather lived there too and no one was awarded.NO JUSTICE

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Tension underlies rapport with grassroots groups

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Charges of environmental racism have extended to the nation's 10 largest environmental groups. In 1990, two grassroots groups, the Gulf Coast Tenant Leadership Development Project and the Southwest Organizing Project, charged the large, mainstream environmental groups with lack of attention to toxic dangers in low-income, minority communities and with discriminatory hiring. Robert D. Bullard, writer on environmental racism, states that the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Sierra Club have moved towards more diversity in their hiring.

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Community profile, Tucson, Arizona; nightmare on Calle Evelina

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A poor, mainly Hispanic area of Tucson, AZ, is heavily polluted by trichloroethylene (TCE) used by the nearby Hughes Aircraft Co. The EPA considers TCE a probable human carcinogen and the area was put on the list of Superfund sites in 1983. Groundwater contamination by TCE was discovered in 1981 and in the 11 years since then, no steps have been taken to stop the continuing pollution of drinking water by TCE migration. Tucsonians for a Clean Environment was founded in 1985 and continues to lobby for government action.

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