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Clean and Safe Ports Campaign
CCEJ, along with many other allies in the Seattle area, has joined in the Clean and Safe Ports Campaign, which aims to establish environmental justice for the truck drivers who bring goods to and from our ports. Essentially, the trucking companies are offloading the costs of complying with clean air regulations onto the drivers and the surrounding communities. The campaign fights back in the media, in the courts, and most of all in the communities. CCEJ has done our part by organizing the community in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. Here is a photo of some of our team.
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Communities Putting Prevention to Work
CCEJ has joined in partnership with the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle
in their Communities Putting Prevention to Work campaign.
We are contributing our expertise in community mobilization to ensure a healthy food supply for South Park.
For more information, please click here.
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Hilltop Urban Gardens
CCEJ congratulates our former board member Dean Jackson for founding and energizing a new project, Hilltop Urban Gardens.
Hilltop Urban Gardens is an urban food justice organization operating in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, WA. HUG partners with the community to grow healthy food, young people and neighbors.
They seek to inspire their community to live with abundance while understanding and undermining the root causes of economic poverty & wealth accumulation and systems of oppression. They believe growing their own food sovereignty is an important strategy in this process. CCEJ is proud to serve as HUG's fiscal sponsor until the project attains tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.
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South Park Bridge
CCEJ helped the South Park community organize to demand rapid replacement of the South Park Bridge, its main connection to downtown Seattle. This was an Environmental Justice issue because it forced residents of an already-marginalized community to travel further (and thus pollute more) just to maintain their current lives. The community had known for years that the bridge had to be replaced, but the bridge was closed in June 2010 without a firm plan for replacement. In a more affluent neighborhood, this problem would have been resolved without imposing this hardship. The County cried poverty while spending on similar services for rich neighborhoods.
CCEJ helped to organize the South Park Bridge Action Alliance, composed of South Park residents and their supporters. SPBAA held several meetings to generate public support for keeping the bridge open and for mitigating the damage and pressing for rapid replacement. The campaign succeeded in obtaining commitments for sufficient funding for bridge replacement, but continues to monitor progress. For more information, contact either southparkbridge@gmail.com or (206) 339-0839.
For the current status of the bridge replacement project, check the County's South Park Bridge page.
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Toxic Beauty Campaign
The Toxic Beauty Project was a collaborative project between CCEJ and the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS) that aimed to improve human health and the environment in nail salons located in low income communities and communities of color. Many chemicals found in beauty products that are commonly used in salons are hazardous to human health, and nail salon technicians are exposed to them on a daily basis. In King County, as well as nationwide, the majority of salon workers and owners are Asian immigrant women, so exposure tends to be disproportionate. We involved all individuals and groups in the process of promoting the use of safer practices and products, from consumer to business owner, salon employee to beauty industry.
Resources to help find safe cosmetics:
safecosmetics.org
toxicfreelegacy.org
nailsmag.com
bauusa.com/sunflower-action.html
Online product information
Related News Articles:
enviroblog.org
Seattle PI
OnEarth
The Environment Report
The Seattle Times
Related Info:
Environmental Coalition of South Seattle
EPA Asian American & Pacific Islander Initiative
EPA Nail Salons Project
Healthy nail salon initiative (PPT)
www.care2.com
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Annual Conference
CCEJ's unique annual conference, Community-Based Solutions for Environmental Health & Justice, an inspiring event that attracted hundreds of people to learn about EJ issues and solutions and build the Northwest EJ movement, was held from 2003 through 2007. We hope to hold another one when funding permits.
For more information, contact CCEJ at justice@ccej.org.
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Outreach & Education
CCEJ continues to monitor developments at the national and state levels as well as locally. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington Department of Ecology routinely consider important EJ matters. When they call for public comment either by mail or through public hearings, we notify our communities via our website and email list.
CCEJ staff and board reach over 2,000 people a year with EJ 101 workshops, Seattle environmental justice tours and community outreach so we can raise the voices of low-income communities and communities of color and reach allies who can support our work.
For more information or to request CCEJ to speak at an event or do an EJ tour, please fill out the speaking/tour request form and email to the board of directors at ccejboard@gmail.com.
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Community Resources
If you are a community member with an environmental justice concern in your neighborhood, we encourage you to visit our resource library. You can research reports, files and news articles on EJ issues and make photocopies. Unfortunately we don't have staff capacity to do research for you. Please contact the office before you visit to confirm that we're open.
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