Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
United States of America V. O'Hearn
United States of America, Petitioner, V. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Et Al., Defendants ...: Petitioner's exhibit in U.S. Supreme court
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
United States of America V. Waldon
Author: Digest of the American and English Annotated Cases, Volumes 1-20
Author: The American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Ruling Case Law
Author: William Mark McKinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Annotated Cases, American and English
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ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing
Author: Carolyn R. BoiarskyPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612499481
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Drawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government. In 2016, 1,100 mainly minority residents of a low-income housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana, received a letter from the city forcibly evicting them from their homes because a high level of lead was found in the soil under their houses. The residents were given two months to move. Many could not find safe housing nearby. The site was designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site because of the large amount of toxic material on it. More than 1,300 similar sites are located throughout the United States. Over 70 million people live within three miles of one of these sites. Five years later, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General charged three federal agencies—EPA, HUD, and CDC—with causing the lead poisoning of children living in the complex. The EPA, responsible for the cleanup, had been aware of the situation for 35 years. The director of the local housing authority admitted to building the complex over a demolished lead smelter. When health issues arose, the housing authority blamed the residents’ sanitary habits rather than its own failure to maintain the structures. The Center for Disease Control and Preventions’s testing of blood lead levels was revealed to be faulty. In short, the very agencies that were supposed to protect these people instead neglected, ignored, and blamed them. But this isn’t just a story of victimization; it is also about empowerment and community members insisting their voices be heard. Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing records the human side of what happens when the industries responsible for polluting leave, but the residents remain. Those residents tell their stories in their own words—not just what happened to them, but how they acted in response. We should listen, not only for justice, but as a cautionary tale against repeated history.
Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System
Author: Denis O'HearnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000397602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process. Since the early expansion of the world-system, the movement of people has been its central process. Not only have managers of capital moved to direct profitable expansion; they have also forced, cajoled or encouraged workers to move in order to extract, grow, refi ne, manufacture and transport materials and commodities. The book offers historical cases that show that migration introduces and deepens racial dominance in all zones of the world-system. This often forces indigenous and imported slaves or bonded labor to extract, process and move raw materials. Yet it also often creates a contradiction between capital’s need to direct labor to where it enables profitability, and the desires of large sections of dominant populations to keep subordinate people of color marginalized and separate. Case studies reveal how core states are concurrently users and blockers of migrant labor. Key examples are Mexican migrants in the United States, both historically and in contemporary society. The United States even promotes of an image of a society that welcomes the immigrant—while policy realities often quite different. Nonetheless, the volume ends with a vision of a future whereby communities from below, both activists and people simply following their communal interests, can come together to create a society that overcomes racism. Its final chapter is a hopeful call by Immanuel Wallerstein for people to make small changes that, together, can bring real about real, revolutionary change.