Health and Environmental Justice
The Health and Environmental Justice Collection includes a range of audio, video, and paper materials concerning movements that fight corporate and state exploitation of public health and the environment. Many materials within the collection intersect with anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-war movements The collection features a diverse set of narratives from across the globe with topics ranging from international perspectives on the dangers of nuclear power and indigenous land rights to domestic issues of environmental racism, AIDS in the Third World, food sovereignty,and disparity in pregnancy-related deaths. A highlight of the collection is the information on environmental activists like Judi Bari, Jeff Luers, and members of the Plowshares Movement. The collection includes newsletters and interviews detailing their actions as well as long form pieces that explore the methods of the environmentalist movement. This collection also contains copies of Turnover, a newsletter of the People's Food System in the Bay Area during the mid-1970s.
Subcollections
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Anti-Nuclear Activism
Materials in this collection pertain to Anti-nuclear Organizing, including the work of Berkeley Students for Peace and the University of California Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project. Additional contents include issues of Anti-Nuclear periodicals.
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Turnover
Turnover was the newsletter of the People's Food System, a Bay Area network of food collectives that provided cheap organic produce from 1973 to 1978.
Documents
Who Bombed Judi Bari? FBI Repression of Activists in the 90's
An overview of the 1990 car bombing that left environmental activist Judi Bari crippled. In the subsequent FBI investigation, Bari and her fellow activist Darryl Cherney were accused of perpetrating the bombing themselves. These baseless accusations fit into the larger narrative of the legacy of COINTELPRO and activist repression.
The Proper Way to Harvest Wheat? Direct Action for the 90's
A reflection on tactics for direct action in the environmental justice and anti-war movements, specifically as they relate to the Plowshares Movement and Earth First! movements. As the author puts it, this pamphlet explores the following questions: "How can we make sure our organizations can survive spying, counter-intelligence 'dirty tricks,' and outright repression? What kinds of militant direct action are appropriate to our politics (and our time and place)? And how can we build a revolutionary movement so we aren't just isolated specks drifting in American culture?"
War in the Gulf: An Enviromental Perspective
Written during the second week of the Persian Gulf War, this report examines some of the ecological and human consequences of US environmental terrorism in Vietnam and Persian Gulf. Records the cost of militarism on the home front--cutting social services, environmental regulations, and a growing national debt. Includes environmentalist demands and vision of a sustainable world.
Combat Ethnic Weapons, Vol. 1, No. 1
Publisher: Coalition Opposed to Medical and Biological AttackCall Number: Volume Number: Vol.1, No. 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Nuclear Activism
Combat Ethnic Weapons: Coalition Opposed to Medical and Biological Attack. Contents: Combat is a Growing Coalition, an article about the anti-war coalition with a list of demands; US CBW Policy: Fact or Fiction?; America’s Ethnic Weapons: Death to the People of the Third World?; Incapacitating and Deadly CBW Agents, listing various toxins and notes on their effects; and more.
Folder 5.2 in Anti-Nuclear Activism.
no more nUClear bombs! convert the weapons labs!
Publisher: UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion ProjectCall Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Anti-Nuclear Activism
Information pamphlet providing context on the Growing Threat of Nuclear war; the Nuclear Weapons Lab; the University of California's Role; Public Control and Conversion; and the UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project.
Folder 13.1 in Anti-Nuclear Activism Carton
Environmentalism: Lack of Racial Diversity
