Breathe Free Detroit
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Grassroots campaign just shut down the incinerator for a healthier more sustainable Detroit.
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14-06-2017 22:43:24
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2/For our final #FiveDaysFiveWays conversation, we're chatting with KT Andresky of Breathe Free Detroit Breathe Free Detroit. Neighborhoods across the country are being hit by a combination of pollution, pandemic, and gentrification, including communities in Detroit.
Q1: Thanks for joining us Breathe Free Detroit! Detroit's low-income communities & communities of color face multiple overlapping crises every day, from the pandemic & evictions to systemic racism & food insecurity - why should people care about waste in this moment? #FiveDaysFiveWays
Thanks, Breathe Free Detroit! Keep an eye out for our soon-to-be-released Zero Waste Masterplan to learn more about how Detroit's Green Task Force is working to build a zero waste city! #FiveDaysFiveWays
The closure of incinerators & other polluting facilities shouldn't mean the displacement of the people who fought for the right to breathe, but many communities face what some call "environmental gentrification" -- learn more from Breathe Free Detroit: #FiveDaysFiveWays #WasteJustice
THIS x100. Everyone working with environmental justice communities should listen to Breathe Free Detroit's words about the relationship between environmental campaigning, land use, and housing: #FiveDaysFiveWays #JustTransition
Here's how you can support Breathe Free Detroit, a grassroots campaign in a former incinerator community that's now fighting for zero waste and against gentrification: #FiveDaysFiveWays #WasteJustice
See how Breathe Free Detroit is organizing for a zero waste just transition in Detroit ⬇️ & read our Principles for a Zero Waste Just Recovery here: zerowasteworld.org/zwjustrecovery/
Awesome to see the similarities in how Breathe Free Detroit and us in Baltimore are working towards a just transition to Zero Waste and working towards community ownership of land as core to the vision. #developmentwithoutdisplacement
Chilling with Breathe Free Detroit planning an EJ party on FRI JUL 21
Mayor Mike Duggan: Stop the Detroit Trash Incinerator - Sign the Petition! change.org/p/mayor-mike-d… via Change.org
Breathe Free pizza party was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who came out to tell Mayor Mike Duggan to #ShutItDown !! #BreatheFreeDetroit