Category - Health Well Being
cultural trauma, incarceration & generational healing hosted by Dr. Cartman and Benny Feb 6, 2021.
Press Conference Deny General Iron/RMG Permit: Dozens of Chicago activists, NPO leaders and elected officials will join Southeast Side hunger strikers in calling on Mayor Lightfoot’s administration to deny General Iron’s (RMG) permit. Feb 8, 2021.
City’s Push To Permit Scrapper In Over-Polluted Southeast Side Is ‘Disgusting,’ Activists Say — And Now They’re On A Hunger Strike To Stop It. by Maxwell Evans Block Club Chicago Feb 5, 2021.
Residents of mostly Latino Chicago neighborhood push back against proposed scrap metal plant Jan 29, 2021 by NBC
WGN Call it a small victory US EPA Civil Rights Division is questioning whether Governor Pritzker’s EPA Approved Building the RMG/General Iron Shredder. WGN Interview Jan 26, 2021.
Black, Latino Chicagoans Dying Of Coronavirus More Than All Others, But They’re Not The Ones Getting Vaccinated by Kelly Bauer, Block Club Chicago Jan 26, 2021.
General Iron closes North Side facility; shredder awaits final permit to start operations on the Southeast Side by Chicago Tribune Jan 4, 2021.
General Iron Press Conference hosted by City Wide Environmentalist Stop the Relocation to Southeast Community Oct 5, 2020.
United Neighbor Environmental Racism & Injustice Panel at Schafer Park Oct 3, 2020.
Editorial: On Chicago’s Southeast Side, the peril of living in a ‘toxic donut’ by By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Chicago Tribune August 25, 2020.
