Mari Copeny and The Flint Water Crisis

What issue has Mari Copeny spoken out against?

• education inequality

• poverty

• unhealthy food choices

• environmental injustice

The Michigan state government stopped bringing clean water from Detroit to Flint and instead started getting water from the polluted Flint River. What effect did this choice have?

• The people in Flint were able to drink water more easily and safely.

• The people in Flint started having a variety of health problems from the toxic water.

• The Flint government had more money to put towards other community issues.

• The people in Flint were so grateful that they wrote a letter to the Michigan governor.

What can you conclude about Copeny's activism based on the information?

• Copeny worked to pressure the government in Flint into apologizing for the problems with the water.

• Copeny wanted to raise awareness about Flint's water problems so that the city could get more money to help fix the problem.

• Copeny didn't know who to talk to about the problems in Flint, but she knew that she needed to talk to more people.

• Copeny's activism was mostly focused on raising money from people in her home state of Michigan.

How did Copeny apply the lessons that she learned from her hometown of Flint to other cities across the United States?

• She partnered with a company to make water filters because she knew that people in other cities were facing the same problem as Flint.

• She used her knowledge of local government to create a platform for kids to speak out about important issues.

• She worked with other cities near rivers to make sure that they wouldn't face flooding or other problems.

• She created an online community of people who were all dedicated to fighting for clean water access.

What is the main idea of this text?

• Mari Copeny wrote to President Obama in 2016 to tell him about the dangerous water situation in Flint, and President Obama eventually visited her city.

• The presence of lead in water can be very dangerous for kids in particular, whose brains are still developing and can be negatively impacted by lead poisoning.

• Mari Copeny is an activist who spoke out about the water problems in her hometown of Flint, Michigan and continues to fight for access to safe water for people everywhere.

• When Flint, Michigan started getting its water from the polluted Flint River, the water started causing health problems for people in the community.

The lack of fairness or justice

• conflict

• innovation

• power

• inequality

a lack of fairness of justice...when one person or group of people do not have the same amount of power or opportunity as other people or groups

• conflict

• impact of ideas or beliefs

• inequity

• scarcity