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Participants in Building
Action for Sustainable Environments (BASE) Program
Updated
11/5/06
http://www.peacefund.org/what/what_BASE.html
BASE is a coalition of 17
organizations nationwide representing people of color and disenfranchized
communities affected by the nuclear chain, as well as U.S. chemical
and biowarfare facilities. Shundahai Network is honored to be a
member of this effort. Email contacts are located at the end of
each group description."
CEEJ is working to fight environmental racism
and military pollution in the Biloxi, MS area. Biloxi and its surrounding
waterways are heavily impacted by dioxins and other chemicals, such
as Agent Orange, emanating from a Navy Base in the area. CEEJ is
a diverse group of African-Americans and Latinos that is training
and involving the community members in the government’s cleanup
of this pollution, conducting health surveys and educating the greater
Biloxi area. email: prayzes@aol.com
Columbia River Education is working for environmental
justice and alternative economic development among indigenous communities
who have remained in their traditional lands along the Columbia
River. This group gathers and provides people with information on
nuclear materials production, storage, and disposal; how the nuclear
cycle affects their health, food supply, and job safety; and promotes
community involvement in decision-making about hazardous waste in
and surrounding the river, which is severely impacting the communities’
health. email: wsjr@netcnct.net
The Community Alliance on the Savannah River Site
works with four counties in Georgia and five in South Carolina whose
communities are generally African American and low- to moderate-
income. The Savannah River Site is a former nuclear weapons production
plant which has spread pollution and nuclear contaminants far downriver,
impacting fish, local wildlife, and the communities surrounding
this area. In addition, African American former employees of the
Site have been disproportionately exposed to the radioactive chemicals
involved in such work. Housed by the Center For Environmental Justice
in Atlanta, the Community Alliance works to reduce the level of
pollution around the Savannah River Site, to educate local communities
about the Site, and to help raise their voice and empower them in
the decision-making processes around it. email:
cfej@bellsouth.net
The Concerned Citizens Committee is fighting
military pollution and racism in poor communities of color around
the Memphis, TN area. The community surrounding the military Defense
Depot, a former federal facility responsible for decades of chemical
releases, has a very elevated rate of cancer – including breast
and prostate cancer among teenagers and young adults. The Concerned
Citizens Committee works to find solutions to the health problems
caused by the Defense Depot; they also have a Youth Terminating
Pollution wing that educates youth about environmental racism and
strives to find answers to problems impacting young people in general.
email: ddmtccc411@aol.com
Diné CARE is an all-Navajo (Diné)
organization comprised of a federation of grassroots community activists
in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Diné CARE’s goals
center on the empowerment of Navajo communities to defend themselves
from unwanted, environmentally destructive development – and
the promotion of sustainable, small-scale, value-added industries;
decentralized energy production; recycling; and environmental regeneration.
Since its formation in 1988, Dine' CARE has worked on several environmental
projects across the Navajo Nation, including battles against logging
and uranium mining within sacred Navajo lands. email:
kiyaani@frontier.net
Eastern Navajo Uranium Workers is based in McKinley
County, New Mexico, where over 100 open pit and underground uranium
mines remain where Navajo people were once recruited to work. Today,
the Navajo continue to suffer from the side effects both of mining
uranium and the contamination from unreclaimed mines. There are
severe health issues among the people caused by the uranium, not
to mention the radioactive contamination of the drinking water,
and a serious lack of knowledge in the community about these hazards.
The ENUW is an all-Navajo environmental justice organization that
works to raise public awareness, educate, and empower the local
Navajo communities. email:
tmartinez@thoreauchapter.org
Hyde and Aragon Parks are located in the low
to middle income communities of color in a flood-prone area of Georgia,
surrounded by a dozen industrial and chemical facilities who illegally
dump cancer-causing byproducts in the area. The Hyde and Aragon
Park Improvement Committee fights environmental racism by educating
local communities as to the dangers of the chemical facilities in
the area, and working for their change or elimination. email:
hpapic@hotmail.com
The Imani Group works to develop holistic educational,
social, economic and spiritual opportunities for empowerment and
capacity-building within communities in the Savannah River area.
Initially focused on organizing educational, cultural and social
events for the community, the Imani Group is also working to educate
and organize the community surrounding the Savannah River Site about
environmental issues, and working to provide youth with education
around environmental, social and cultural issues. email:
imanigrp@bellsouth.net
Because of the inadequate data produced by Reichold
Chemical Company, Environmental Protection Agency officials and
other government units about Agent Orange and other toxins in their
community, JPAP organizes, educates, and empowers the community
to work together for enviromental justice. The group strives to
obtain environmental health services and to generate self-help housing
programs with sustainable economic development for persons living
around the site, and also to dialogue and collaborate with groups
at the regional , national, and international levels to develop
solutions for existing problems in contaminated low-income communities.
email: keysjpap@aol.com
The mission of this program is two-fold: to educate,
enlighten, and inform children about environmental health hazards
in and near the community; and to help students meet South Carolina
Curriculum Standards in Math, Science, Language Arts and Social
Studies by improving their study, writing, and critical thinking
skills in researching and analyzing information. email:
gwenlittlejohn@yahoo.com
New Mexico Alliance is a grassroots, statewide
organization composed of community-based groups and individual activists
who are involved in social, political and environmental justice
issues. The Alliance is working to educate and organize local communities
around the transportation and storage of nuclear waste that will
be going through rural and indigenous communities on its way to
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico. In Northern
New Mexico, the Alliance is educating people about the long-term
environmental, economic and health effects that Los Alamos (home
of the first nuclear bomb testing) has had on local communities.
email: reals123@cableone.net
NCEC, a Latino farm-worker community organization,
directs its efforts to educate, organize and mobilize the Latino
community in building partnerships with academic institutions, community
groups and friends in government agencies to confront and find solutions
to the environmental threats that agricultural practices and nuclear
contamination are posing to the health and safety of the people
living in the rural, agricultural communities of the Eastern Washington.
They have produced and programmed radio campaigns that informed
and educated farm-workers on environmental injustice issues as well
as amnesty and human rights. email:
kncec1997@aol.com
Pine Bluff is a low-income community of color
in which there is an old chemical weapons arsenal and twenty-six
different companies that severely pollute the environment. The group
works to protect their community by conducting environmental and
health testing of Pine Bluff and the surrounding area, identifying
and addressing educational programs and activities to empower people
of color in Pine Bluff and Arkansas. email:
yates_e@hotmail.com
CPJP is a Puerto Rican peace group that focuses
on education, documentation and dissemination of information about
human rights, militarism, and peace. CPJP’s work on environmental
issues focuses on the US military’s use of Puerto Rico as
a military colony and its pollution of the land, water, and air
in Vieques, PR as a result of extensive bombing practice. CPJP strives
to develop the values of solidarity and cooperation that permit
each person to act individually and collectively to transform the
rigid structures that maintain injustice. email:
pcjp@coqui.net
Shundahai Network is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with
indigenous communities and environmental, peace and human rights
movements. The group actively seeks to close down the Nevada Test
Site to all nuclear weapons programs except for radioactive contamination
containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear
waste dumping on indigenous peoples’ lands, especially Yucca
Mountain and Skull Valley Reservation. They also work to educate
the people about the dangers of radioactive waste transportation
and promote a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation
and renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes
and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops
and conferences. email:
SHAWL Society is an indigenous organization working
on issues of environmental contamination such as uranium mining
in Spokane lands. SHAWL Society works to keep toxic waste from ruining
the environment; to protect the air, water, and land for the children;
and to promote awareness and educate the community about environmental
concerns and social injustices. email:
shawlsociety@yahoo.com
TEWA is made up of indigenous Tewa speaking Pueblo
Indian nations, and is a voice for indigenous and non-indigenous
communities that deal daily with extreme poverty, lack of social
services and environmental racism. Since local indigenous communities
have been seriously impacted by the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory
and testing and radioactive material in the area – which has
led to serious environmental and health hazards – TEWA was
formed to address issues that local tribal governments could not.
TEWA continues to work to address pollution-based illness in indigenous
communities and to get more social service funding from the state
and federal governments. email:
tewacowboy@hotmail.com
Tewa Women United provides educational and empowerment
training activities for residents of the six Tewa speaking Pueblos
in northern New Mexico. With members aging from 18 to 65, the group's
activities focus on environmental justice, the prevention of domestic
violence, alcohol abuse, and teen suicide, peer support for Indian
women, and the strengthening of the Tewa values (including in relation
to the forces of acculturation). In essence, Tewa Women United is
committed to improving the economic, physical, environmental and
social aspects of indigenous communities, and to do so for women
in particular. For five years the group has held annual gatherings
to address the nuclear contamination of Pueblo lands arising from
their proximity to Los Alamos National Laboratory. email:
vickiedowney@hotmail.com
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