The Keystone Pipeline Is An Environmental Justice Issue
Both the Indigenous communities in Canada and the residents of Port Arthur have seen elevated incidence of illness.
Both the Indigenous communities in Canada and the residents of Port Arthur have seen elevated incidence of illness.
Khan’s contention is that poverty is a human rights issue, and therefore defending those rights must be at the core of efforts to end poverty.
I interviewed Joan Blades by telephone to get her reaction to Palin — who actively references her role as a mother. “We haven’t heard her agenda yet,” Blades told me. “The focus needs not to be on [her] personal family issues, but what she would do as Vice President.”