Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to
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Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Moun
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"Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging
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The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmenta
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The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest po
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A critical look at the movement for environmental justice When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental
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While corporations continue with business as usual, climate change is rapidly expanding the gap between rich and poor, a
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During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence
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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensifie
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Black Snake tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the activism of four women from Standing
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing
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