Cesar Chavez and the Fight for Safe Working Conditions

The video covers the history of environmental justice, starting with Cesar Chavez's efforts for labor rights in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement's role in highlighting environmental racism, and the establishment of the EPA. It discusses key studies linking race to environmental hazards, the formation of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. The video concludes with President Clinton's Executive Order 12898 and the ongoing fight against environmental segregation.

What was one of the main goals of Cesar Chavez's NFWA during the grape growers' strike?

• To increase the price of grapes

• To ban the use of toxic pesticides on grapes

• To promote grape exports

• To reduce the working hours of laborers

Which event did Martin Luther King Jr. lead to address unfair treatment and environmental injustices?

• The Delano Grape Strike

• The West Harlem Protest

• The Memphis Sanitation Strike

• The Washington March

What was the purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created by President Nixon?

• To manage national parks

• To support industrial growth

• To enforce environmental regulations and ensure clean air, land, and water

• To promote agricultural development

What did the 1983 GAO study reveal about hazardous waste landfills?

• They were primarily in rural areas

• They were predominantly in impoverished Black American communities

• They were mostly located in affluent neighborhoods

• They were evenly distributed across all communities

Which group was formed in the 1990s to address environmental and economic issues faced by Native American communities?

• The Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee

• The National Farm Workers Association

• The Indigenous Environmental Network

• The Environmental Protection Agency

What significant event marked the global environmental movement of all people in 1991?

• The signing of Executive Order 12898

• The first National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit

• The creation of the EPA

• The Memphis Sanitation Strike

What was the purpose of Executive Order 12898 signed by President Bill Clinton?

• To reduce taxes on environmental organizations

• To increase funding for national parks

• To address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations

• To promote industrial growth