RESOURCES RELATED TO: GENOCIDE

UPDATES ON CASES FROM THE FILM HOMELAND: FOUR PORTRAITS OF NATIVE ACTION

• Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:
  • http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/Global-Warming/2012/12-19-12-New-Plan-Balances-Wildlife-Conservation-with-Drilling-in-Western-Arctic.aspx
  • This report about the history of the controversy also may be of interest:  http://arctic.fws.gov/issues1.htm
• Efforts by Eastern Navajo people in New Mexico to stop uranium mining:
  • http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/12/12greenwire-navajo-group-to-take-uranium-mine-challenge-to-33718.html?pagewanted=all
  • http://students.law.umich.edu/mjeal/2012/07/uranium-mining-in-the-navajo-nation-after-hydro-resources-inc/
• Efforts by Northern Cheyenne in Montana to protect homeland from methane gas wells:
  • Here is an ABC report about the history of the controversy:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7002860&page=1
  • The ruling from the Montana Supreme Court:  http://www.indianz.com/News/2010/019908.asp
• Efforts by Penobscot Nation in Maine to prevent pollution of river by paper companies:
  • Here is the Environmental Protection Agency statement about the pollution and its activities:  http://www.epa.gov/region1/govt/tribes/penobscotindiannation.html
  • The latest report about Penobscot Nation lawsuits:  http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/19/news/state/potential-intervenors-lined-up-in-penobscot-nation-lawsuit-over-authority-of-river/

BOOKS & DOCUMENTS

• Agyeman, Julian. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. New York: New York UP, 2005. Print.
• Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. Morgantown, W. Va.: West Virginia UP, 2007. Print.
• Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York UP, 2001. Print.
• Checker, Melissa. Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town. New York: New York UP, 2005. Print.
• Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1995. Print.
• Nikiforuk, Andrew. Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. Vancouver: Greystone, 2008. Print.
• Pellow, David N. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2002. Print.
• Stein, Rachel. New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2004. Print.

VIDEOS

POPULAR FILMS

• China Syndrome (1979) – In an accident frighteningly close to reality, a nuclear power plant in California lacks the proper safety precautions when disaster threatens.
• A Civil Action (1999) – The families of children who died as a result of industrial pollution are represented by a heroic lawyer in a lawsuit against the polluter. The film is based on a true story.
• Erin Brockovich (2000) – An unemployed single mother fights a power company that poisoned a city's water supply.

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

• Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008) – This documentary examines the increasing human population and changing environment that ensures proper management of water resources will be a major concern in the 21st century.
• Tapped (2010) – The bottled water industry is critically examined in this documentary.
• Burning the Future: Coal in America (2008) – The environmental costs of coal production in the United States are closely examined and criticized.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Downey, Liam & Hawkins, Brian. (2008) Race, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States. Sociological Perspectives, 51(4),759-781.
• Faber, Daniel R. & Krieg, Eric J. (2002) Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110 (2), 277-288.
• Jones, Robert Emmet & Rainey, Shirley A. (2006) Examining Linkages between Race, Environmental Concern, Health, and Justice in a Highly Polluted Community of Color. Journal of Black Studies, 36(4), 473-496.

WEBSITES

• http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html
• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/environmental_justice/resources
• http://www.nrdc.org/reference/topics/environ_justice.asp
• National Black Environmental Justice Network - http://www.nbejn.org/
• Deep South Environmental Justice Network - http://www.dscej.org/