ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE

This event is sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Environmental Justice Partnership and the Calumet Project in conjunction with the Department of Minority Studies and the Black Student Union of Indiana University Northwest, in Gary.

 

Discussion Issues Include:

 

  1. WHAT ARE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
  2. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH POLICY, BROWNFIELDS, and TRANSPORTATION?
  3. THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF THE EAST CHICAGO CONFINED DISPOSAL FACILITY

 

 


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Date:      Saturday April 5, 2003     

 

Time:      9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

               Panel 1 – 9:45 a.m.  – 11:15 a.m.

                               Lunch Provided

               Panel II – 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

 

Location: Savannah Center Auditorium, Indiana University Northwest in Gary,

                Indiana.  3400 Broadway.

 


Conference Panelist

 

Betty Balanoff, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of History Roosevelt Univ., Community Activist

Jose Bustos, SEIU, Chicago., Cesar Chavez Community House East Chicago, Community Activist

Bryan Bullock, Esq. Environmental Justice Chairman, NAACP, Gary. EJ Partnership,

Chair of Policy Subcommittee for 2030 Plan

Hazel Johnson, People for Community Recovery, Chicago. Nationally recognized as the “Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement.”

Jose Lopez -

 

Mary Mulligan, Environmental Activist, City of Gary

 
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D. O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame. Kim Scipes, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology. University of Illinois at Chicago. Director, The Calumet Project

 

For more information contact eboria@netnitco.net or Dr. Jones at 980-6704.

Marco Tavanti, Ph.D. Associate Director of the Vincent DePaul Leadership Project of the Public Services Graduate Program, DePaul University Chicago.