September 24, 2021

Environmental justice work and organizations by our panelists:

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Pam Tau Lee: twitter)

• Pam’s keynote address at APALA’s 2021 Convention “Rooted in Legacy: Towards a New World Beyond Borders & Across Oceans”

• Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice (Chuey Chu: twitter)

  • Climate Organizing in Asian American Communities: An Interview with Andrea Ch

• Justice is Global (Tobita Chow: twitter)

  • U.S.-China: Progressive Internationalist Strategy Under Biden by Tobita (Toby) Chow & Jake Werner

• Fridays for Future China (Howey Ou: Twitter)

  • 为什么我要绝食抗议三天？Why I am hunger strike for 3 days?

  • “Not Letting Go of Our Common Future”: Meet Howey Ou, China’s First School Climate Striker”

Take action

Donate, educate, call/write to representatives, or go to the frontline if possible–anything you can do can be meaningful.

Join Indigenous-led movements (like the ongoing #StopLine3) to keep fossil fuel in the ground & honor Indigenous sovereignty: https://www.stopline3.org/#intro

Join EJ movements and initiatives from where you are such as:

• Sunrise Movement https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

• Stop the Money Pipeline https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/

Political education

(more about potential reading groups soon!)

Relevant articles mentioned：

• San Francisco & Oakland Chinatown in solidarity with the Indigenous Environmental Network

• The Sapara people of the Ecuadorian Amazon to oppose oil extraction by Chinese state-owned companies:https://no-redd.com/from-the-heart-of-san-francisco-chinatown-to-the-amazon-people-across-borders-unite-to-stop-redd/

• Chrysanthemum Taiwanese Diaspora Anthology

• Plastics: The New Coal in Appalachia?

Books on EJ from Indigenous perspectives

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Our History is the Future by Nick Estes

• Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron

Hazel M. Johnson

Hazel M. Johnson (January 25, 1935 – January 12, 2011) was an environmental activist on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. She is considered to be the mother of environmental justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_M._Johnson

Chuey提到的Formosa plastics plant in St. James 相关报道:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/04/19/huge-plastics-plant-faces-calls-environmental-justice-stiff-economic-headwinds/