Just Transportation
Running Time: 45 minutes
Price: $20.00
This video includes highlights from the "Environmental Justice and Transportation:
Building Model Partnerships Conference" that was held in Atlanta, Georgia
in 1995. The Atlanta conference brought together grassroots organizers,
civil rights activists, local, state, tribal, and federal transportation
planners, public officials, legal experts, an and civil rights issues in
people of color communities are explored and shot on location in Atlanta,
Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, West Harlem (New York City), and Washington,
DC. Contact EJRC: (404) 880-6911 or ejrc@cau.edu.
Sustainable Atlanta
Running Time: 27 minutes
Price: $20.00
This
video explores the intersection of race, class, place, and the challenges
facing Atlanta's Empowerment Zone (EZ) neighborhoods as the residents begin
the monumental task of dismantling barriers to economic opportunity and
residential apartheid (housing discrimination, racial redlining, and other
forms of institutionalized racism) that created separate, unequal, unhealthy,
and non sustainable development and living conditions. Over 95 percent of
the Atlanta's 30 EZ neighborhoods are African American and a disproportionately
large share are poor. These neighborhoods have more than their fair share
of infrastructure problems (streets, storm water, and sewer treatment),
inadequate public open space and parks, poverty (36 percent), unemployment
(17 percent compared with 9 percent for the city), inadequate housing (21
percent of units are vacant), inefficient energy use, environmental pollution
(landfills, abandoned waste sites, polluting facilities), and health threats
(childhood lead poisoning and childhood asthma). Residents of the EZ neighborhoods
developed the plans,benchmarks, and vision for creating an "urban village"
that is economically viable and sustainable. The video demonstrates how
community based organizations and grassroots leaders are turning their communities
around and making them safe, healthy, and sustainable. Produced by the EJRC
in collaboration with CAU-TV for the Atlanta Empowerment Zone Advisory Board.
Contact EJRC: (404) 880-6911 or ejrc@cau.edu.
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