What's Happening at CCEJ?

High Country News Updates EJ Coverage

2 February 2010
The High Country News, a magazine subtitled "For people who care about the West", has just published a special series on Green Justice: the Environmental Movement and the Colors of the West. While none of the articles focus specifically on our locality, they all raise issues that are important here. Please check them out and let HCN know how you feel about them.

Central Co-Op Renews Support for CCEJ

28 January 2010
Our good friends at the Central Co-Op have renewed their support for CCEJ, as they have often done in the past. The Co-op seeks to become even more rooted in the community and responsive to its needs, and CCEJ very much appreciates the financial and informational support that it provides. Watch for the Co-Op's new logo to appear in our web pages when it is selected and for signs at our events crediting the Co-op with supplying the food.

Smart Growth Conference will focus on EJ!

14 January 2010
The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in early February will focus largely on EJ issues in land use planning. The conference organizers are serious about including people of color, so they have established a "Diversity Scholarship Fund", making scholarships and travel stipends available to leaders from lower-income and minority communities, as well as representatives from organizations whose work is primarily focused on social equity and environmental justice. The application deadline is January 8, but funds are going fast so earlier application is advised.

Here is a brochure about the Equitable Development Track.

CCEJ, in partnership with our friends at Seattle King County Public Health and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, will lead a tour of Environmental Justice communities in South Park and Georgetown as part of the conference. For details, please see our Calendar of Events page or the New Partners webpage.

Majora Carter will speak at the Friday morning plenary session! The session title: "Smart Growth at the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Green Jobs", says it all.

Majora Carter Clarifies Links: Climate Justice IS Environmental Justice

10 November 2009
Check out this brand new video!

WTO+10: Seattle People's Summit

10 November 2009
The Climate is Changing - It's Time for Solutions!

Many of us who were involved in the protests of the World Trade Organization's meeting in Seattle ten years ago will gather again for the Seattle + 10 conference Nov 27-29. CCEJ representatives will speak on Sunday 11/29 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on "How Free Trade Harms Environmental Justice". Please join us there! Let's demonstrate a renewed commitment to justice and send a strong message to Wall Street: "People and the Planet are Not For Sale".

For more information, please visit the Seattle Plus Ten website

Just Say No to "Clean Coal"

10/27/2009
If you've seen advertisements about how coal can be made "clean", here's some video that shows where the coal ash often ends up-- polluting people of color!
Environmental Justice in Sagkeeng First Nation

Neighbors Say the Port of Seattle is Making Them Sick

10/08/2009
Our ally Puget Sound Sage has surveyed the people of Georgetown and South Park about how they are affected by truck traffic and other operations of the Port of Seattle. The results are clear: they say the Port is sickening them. CCEJ assisted in conducting the survey last month; we are glad to help publicize the results. KING-5 and KOMO News both covered the story. Stay tuned!

CCEJ Board plans organizational renewal

10/06/2009

Dear Friends,
The CCEJ Board of Directors is actively planning to reinvigorate CCEJ's activities on an all-volunteer basis. To do this, we need some help. Here is our current "Wish List"; please consider how you can help us obtain these: