In communities across the country, people of color, the poor, women, migrant farm workers, and industrial workers are joining forces with civil rights, peace, and local community activists to challenge corporate polluters. The grassroots organizations are reshaping the environmental movement by forcing it to incorporate social justice issues such as racism, class, gender, antimilitarism, and poverty. Toxic Struggles, a keystone text of the environmental justice cause, written by luminaries in the field, forcefully documents the origins of this fast-growing movement.
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