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Fighting to Win
by Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ)
Fighting to Win is a podcast hosted by the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ). Join us each week to hear inspiring stories from environmental activists across the country. Let's fight to win!To learn more about CHEJ's work, visit www.chej.org.
Episodes
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Ep. 29: Charles Utley - Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Listen to Charles Utley's inspiring experiences and insights related to Environmental Justice! Utley grew up in Hyde Park, Georgia, a predominantly Black community. Many people worked at Southern Wood Piedmont Co., a company that used creosote and dumped their chemical debris into a stream that...
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Ep. 28: Jose Franco Garcia- Organizing Director of Environmental Health Coalition
Jose Franco Garcia has over 15 years of experience with community organizing in the San Diego area. He currently focuses on environmental justice issues and working to ensure that his community is safe & healthy. After graduating from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in...
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Ep. 27: Georgette Gomez- Rooted in Community
Georgette Gomez is a queer, Latina woman rooted in her San Diego community where she grew up with two immigrant parents. She received her degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Geography, and has acquired over 13 years of experience as an environmental organizer at the Environmental Health...
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Ep. 26: Transforming Struggle into Power - Olinka Green
Tune into today's episode to learn valuable lessons in leadership and organizing from formidable activist Olinka Green! To learn more, visit http://chej.org/livingroomleadership/.
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Ep. 25: Mama Bear to Leading Activist - Gillian Graber
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Gillian Graber, the cofounder and president of Protect PT, a community organization working for security, safety, and quality of life for people in Penn Township. Today, Protect PT’s most recent focus is a fight against a local Injection Well that...
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Ep. 24: The Woman in the Mirror - Lee Ann Smith
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Lee Ann Smith, an elementary school librarian turned environmental activist from Asheville, North Carolina! She began fighting against environmental injustice when her son Gabe was diagnosed with rare thyroid cancer at the age of 11. In addition…
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Ep. 23: What is Right in Cancer Alley
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Darryl Malek-Wiley, an environmental activist with over 30 years of experience! He has been fighting alongside the primarily African-American, low income communities affected by “Cancer Alley” for clean water, air, and land, and to prevent more...
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Ep.22: Champion of the Underdog -- Melissa Mays of Flint, MI
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Melissa Mays, Water You Fighting For activist, nicknamed “Champion of the Underdog”, to learn more about her fight against the Flint water crisis. Although Mays has had to deal with the trauma from the consequences of speaking up, it does not stop...
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Ep.21: When You Go Alone, You Lose -- Lois Gibbs, Founder of CHEJ
On April 6, 1981, 501(c)(3) paperwork was filed marking the beginning of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ). Lois Gibbs, Founder of CHEJ, celebrates 40 years of founding the organization, and remembers the role everyone played in making it the organization it is today. Tune into...
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Ep.20: Poisoned Without Permission: Andrea Amico
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Andrea Amico, the Co-founder of Testing for Pease in NH. Amico became an activist after reading about high level of PFAS contamination in a well which supplied drinking water to the Pease International Tradeport, and her family were among those…
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Ep.19: From Shy Young Woman, To Powerful Leader: Penny Newman
Penny Newman, Founder of Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) held victory after fighting against the Stringfellow Acid Pits in the 1980s. Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Newman about her journey as an activist and her fights against toxic pollution....
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Ep.18: The Wasted Babies of Injection Wells
Tune into today's episode for a conversation with Phyllis Glazer about the sufferings of her community, and her tactic of using the press to drive the facility out of business. Phyllis Glazer is an activist featured in People Magazine, the Houston Chronicle, CNN/Time News Magazine’s Earth Day…
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Ep 17: Nina Morgan and GASP Go Above and Beyond to Help Those in Birmingham During The Pandemic
Tune into today's episode to learn about how Nina Morgan and GASP go above and beyond to help those in Birmingham during the pandemic. Morgan is a Climate and Environmental Justice Organizer with GASP, and have recently held victory in reaching a settlement agreement to end ABC's Coke pollution....
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Ep. 16: "They Were Killing Me Alive"
Tune into today's episode to with Charlie Powell of People Against Neighborhood Industrial Contamination (PANIC) in Birmingham, AL to learn about his fight to get his community relocated from toxic facilities and his experience as a former steel mill worker! To learn more, visit...
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Ep. 15: A Nuclear Fight
Tune into today's episode for a chat with Pam Kingfisher, an organizer who led the fight in shutting down 23% of the world’s uranium supply and fighting off unwanted poultry CAFO in her community. Interested in learning more? Visit chej.org/livingroomleadership/ .
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Ep. 14: "They Shall Deny"
Tune into today's episode with Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Deputy Director, Organizing and Advocacy of Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC), to listen to her experience as one of the leaders that helped pass S232, the strongest environmental justice law in the United States. Interested in learning more?...
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Ep. 13: Justice for Janey
Tune into today's special Veteran's Day episode with U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jerry Ensminger to learn about the contamination and fight for justice at Camp Lejeune, a military base in North Carolina. Interested in learning more? Visit https://chej.org/livingroomleadership/.
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Ep.12: A Lesson in Leadership with Former Athens County Commissioner Roxane Groff
Tune into today's episode to learn valuable lessons in leadership and organizing from formidable activist and former elected official, Roxanne Groff! To learn more, visit http://chej.org/livingroomleadership/.
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Ep. 11: Fighting for Environmental Justice in the Inland Empire
Tune in to today's episode with Esther Portillo, Interim Executive Director of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ), to learn about how she leads grassroots efforts to bring lasting environmental justice to communities in the Inland Empire. To learn more, visit...
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Ep. 10: The Tar Creek Keeper
Tune in to today's episode to learn about Rebecca Jim's work leading her Native American community’s fight for environmental justice and remediation of the Tar Creek area, one of the largest and most polluted Superfund sites in the United States. Interested in learning more? Visit...
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E.9: I Will Fight Until I Melt
Tune in to today's episode to learn about how Pamela Miller and Vi Waghiyi tackle military toxics, protect health, and achieve justice for Alaskan natives. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.akaction.org/.
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E. 9: Lois Gibbs Talks Labor and Environmental Movements
Tune in to today's episode to hear CHEJ's founder, Lois Gibbs, talk about the various connections and collaborations between labor and environmental movements. To learn more about CHEJ's history and the we work we're doing with communities, visit www.chej.org.
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Ep. 8: A Win Against Fossil Fuels in a Tea-Party Texas Town
Tune in to today's episode to learn about how Ranjana Bhandari brought residents together to oppose fracking in Arlington, TX. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.facebook.com/LiveableArlington.
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Ep. 7: Former Hollywood Star Takes on Texas Oil Refineries
Tune in to learn about why Hilton Kelley, Executive Director and Founder of CIDA, Community In-Power & Development Association, gave up his acting career to pursue environmental justice in his hometown of Port Arthur, TX. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.cidainc.org.
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Ep. 6: Community Organizing to Politics with Hawaii's 23-Year-Old State Rep
Interested in electoral politics? Tune in to learn about Kaniela Ing's experiences as a community organizer and former representative in the Hawaii State House.
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Ep. 5: Pushing Back Against Corporate Polluters in Wausau, Wisconsin
Tune in to learn about Tom Kilian's experience pushing back against corporate polluters in Wausau, Wisconsin. Interested in learning more? Visit http://cleanwausau.com.
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Ep. 4: Cancer Clusters in Houston's 5th Ward
Tune in to learn about Jackie Medcalf's experience leading the fight for full remediation of San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site. Interested in learning more? Visit https://txhea.org.
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Ep. 3: Tackling TCE-Tainted Water in Tucson's Communities of Color
Tune in to learn about the health effects of drinking TCE-tainted water in Tuscon. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.facebook.com/ejtaskforce.
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Ep. 2: A Massive Victory Over The Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Tune in to learn about Lou Zeller's successful efforts to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.facebook.com/BlueRidgeEnvironmentalDefenseLeague.
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Ep. 1: The Manhattan Project's Legacy: Two Moms Battling Radioactive Waste
Tune in to learn about how two moms brought awareness to a nuclear waste problem in their community and demanded change from the EPA. Interested in learning more? Visit http://www.stlradwastelegacy.com.
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Introducing Fighting to Win
Welcome to Fighting to Win, the series where we share real stories from the frontlines of the environmental justice movement. Here at CHEJ, we connect communities to each other, so when COVID-19 hit, we launched a webinar series to bring organizers, activists and community leaders together…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fighting to Win is a podcast hosted by the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ). Join us each week to hear inspiring stories from environmental activists across the country. Let's fight to win!To learn more about CHEJ's work, visit www.chej.org.
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