by Nada Khader | Feb 24, 2015 | Environmental and Food Justice
Polluters from Big Ag, to developers, to the oil and gas industry have a vested interest in rolling back protections to our waterways. Because when loopholes in the Clean Water Act remain open, many of them can continue to dump into our streams and pave over our...
by Nada Khader | Jan 29, 2015 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Movement Building
http://yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/radical-farmers-use-fresh-food-fight-racial-injustice-black-lives-matter
by Nada Khader | Jan 4, 2015 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Criminal Justice, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Movement Building, Racial Justice
By Sendhil Mullainathan- professor of economics at Harvard The deaths of African-Americans at the hands of the police in Ferguson, Mo., in Cleveland and on Staten Island have reignited a debate about race. Some argue that these events are isolated and that racism is a...
by Nada Khader | Nov 3, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice
October 26, 2014 Panel Discussion at Fordham University-Westchester Campus, sponsored by Lower Hudson Valley Civil Liberties Union and WESPAC Foundation. Speakers: Gerardo Gutierrez, Rural & Migrant Ministry Sarah Ahmed, Student Farmworker Alliance Douglass...
by Nada Khader | Oct 2, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Immigration, Racial Justice
LHVCLU Farmworker Justice The New York State Farmworker Fair Labor Act (S.1743/A.1792) will, when enacted, allow for basic labor protections many of us take for granted: overtime pay, disability insurance and the right to collective bargaining – rights which the New...