Community Corner
Roundtable Discussion: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Leveraging Law to Facilitate Citizen Epidemiology
RSVP
online: www.brooklaw.edu/healthpgm
before
Thursday, February 6, 2014
About the
Program
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The
discussion will focus on how community residents (that is, citizens of a place)
who are experiencing health effects from industrial toxins can document
exposures and hold industrial polluters accountable. Topics will be drawn from
the experience of organizations such as Mossville Environmental Action Now, WE
ACT for Environmental Justice, and other groups. The discussion will address
the meaning of public health protection; the effects on communities when it is
withheld; the use of epidemiological research and other public health tools;
and, how community residents can create alternative public health research
strategies and use them in legal, media, and community-organizing
campaigns—especially those focused on industries such as oil refining and
chemical processing.
The
program’s goal is to share knowledge and tactics that benefit the work of
environmental justice organizing in the United States.