More and more environmentalists are reorienting their work towards environmental justice: we fight to shut down incinerators, petrochemical plants, and other polluting facilities with the knowledge that their impacts disproportionately harm Black communities. But the attack on Black lives extends far beyond environmental pollution — policing and prisons threaten the lives of Black people in America every day. Our waste management systems exist in close proximity to systems of policing and incarceration, not only where they physically intersect through legalized slave labor and the racialized siting of facilities, but also in the way that activists work towards solutions.
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