Environmental and

Womens Justice
Logan Patrick
Ashley Falvey
Juliette Verley
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta

Activist in the immigrant and farm workers communities

Cofounder of the United Farm Workers

Received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights

Enacting Change For Social Justice In
Organizing

Hard and brutal work for farm workers

Rampant poverty

Ultimate Solution: Unionizing and getting

contracts with employers
Enacting Change For Social Justice In
Organizing
Enacting Change For Social Justice In
Organizing

Poilitical organization of illegal immigrants

Teaching them how to they are able to get involved

Corporations like Dole who own most of land people work

Privatization of water (Dole, Nestle, DAPL)

Looking Both Ways: Women at the Crossroads
of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice
Effectively solving the climate crisis demands that the mitigation and
adaptation measures we employ align with a justice agenda that improves the
circumstances of poor people, people of color, women, and children. If we
fail to make synergistic efforts to protect the planet and lift up the most
vulnerable among us, we are doomed to recreate an unsustainable system []
Our mission is to construct a new economic and political system that is both
sustainable and just.
Climate Change Basics, Natural Disasters and Reproductive Justice, Healthy
Workplaces: Healthy Women and Healthy Earth, Chemical Lifecycles, Electronic
Industry, Nail Salon Industry, Global Change and Local Action
 Looking Both Ways: Goals

1. Identify opportunities in the workplaces of women of color to increase

reproductive justice and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Engage in movement building to build strategic cross-sector alliances.
3. Move local/regional policy at the intersection of reproductive justice and
climate justice that advances the definition of green policies.
4. Ensure that low-income women, women of color, LGBTQ women, disabled
women, and youth are protected and not targeted for discrimination and
oppression during times of climate change disaster.
Women of Color Fighting for the
Environment: DAPL

Indigenous women across

the U.S. have pushed
boundaries and served as
guiding voices in struggles
for land rights, cultural
restoration and
environmental justice
often quietly, in service of
their own communities.
Suggested Reading
--Pinderhughes, Raquel. "The impact of race on environmental quality: An empirical and
theoretical discussion." Sociological Perspectives 39.2 (1996): 231-248.

--Harrison, Jill Lindsey. "Neoliberal environmental justice: mainstream ideas of justice in

political conflict over agricultural pesticides in the United States." Environmental Politics
23.4 (2014): 650-669.

--Taylor, Dorceta E. "American environmentalism: the role of race, class and gender in
shaping activism 1820-1995." Race, Gender & Class (1997): 16-62.

--Swanston, Samara F. "Race, gender, age, and disproportionate impact: what can we do
about the failure to protect the most vulnerable." Fordham Urb. LJ 21 (1993): 577.

--Kirk, Gwyn. "Ecofeminism and environmental justice: Bridges across gender, race, and
class." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 18.2 (1997): 2-20.