Annotations for People: Moore-richard

One of the agenda items will very clearly be the relationships between our networks. We have been working together in the past on several issues. One of the primary pieces that will be on the agenda, for example, is a letter that was sent requesting an emergency environmental justice summit because of the urgency of the poisoning of communities of color, and in our case in the southwest Latino communities, that we called for a meeting with the president and vice president and also that a emergency, I say environmental summit take place, environmental justice summit.

We've been involved, for example, with pesticides issues with farm workers for many, many years. We didn't perceive that as an environmental issue, we perceived it as a labor issue. Housing and tenant organizing. Over 900,000 housing units today still have lead based pain in them with many children eating the chips off those walls and Latino housing projects and other communities in the southwest. Never perceived it as an environmental issue, we perceived it as a tenant's rights issue. And as we're all unfortunately very aware, our communities are located in and around slaughterhouses, dog food companies, industrial facilities, landfills, incinerators, whatever it may be, and that's not anything recent. Matter of fact, that's been for the last many, many years.