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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">One of the biggest "Big Lies" in American politics
today is the oft-expressed view that "Green issues" in general only
matter to eccentric upper-middle-class Euro-Americans and the Green Party in
particular is irrelevant to communities of color.<br>
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<b>Black Agenda Report</b>, a progressive African-American web site, has an
article posted this week about a new study which concluded that (surprise!
surprise!) <o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">“Environmental injustice in minority communities
is as much or more prevalent today than 20 years ago, according to a follow-up
study to the landmark “Toxic Waste and Race in the United States” report that
put the environmental justice movement on the map two decades ago…”</font> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">See my Post on the California Greening Blog:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2007/04/environmental-racism.html">Environmental
Racism</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">by Alex Walker <o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(<a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2007/04/environmental-racism.html">http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2007/04/environmental-racism.html</a><span style=""> </span>)</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">A couple of cities that are known to have had serious problems are right here in California: Oakland and Richmond. <br>
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<font size="2">Alex Walker<br>
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PS: After neraly a decade of Democratic Party Machine cronyism and incompetence, the good citizerns of Richmond, California elected </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gayle McLaughin as the first Green Party mayor of Richmond in 2006. </span></font>
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