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.

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