Category - Health Well Being
Aldermen, Students Fast For A Day In Solidarity With Southeast Side Hunger Strikers Trying To Block Metal Scrapper by Mawell Evans Block Club Chicago Feb 16, 2021
Hunger Strike Continues Over General Iron’s Move To Southeast Side by WBEZ Feb 18, 2021
Faith Leader Press Conference to Announce Fast and Pray Day to Join Hungry Striker to Deny General Iron Permit Feb 10, 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.
