www.the A1.org By Haili Blassengame ofhttps://the1a.org/segments/water-week-access-to-clean-drinking-water/ Human beings start their days with water. A warm shower. Brushing teeth. Washing faces. The more than two million Americans who live without running water,...
By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Yvette Jordan In the era of COVID (or post-COVID, as some have cautiously begun to call this time we’re in), we have all become more than familiar with the phrase “nobody wants to work anymore.” As fast-food restaurants and other...
Jacobin Magazine September 13, 2021. By Liza Featherstone A major socialist-led grassroots campaign is underway to pass Jamaal Bowman’s Green New Deal for Public Schools — a strategically savvy measure that combines forthright climate action with large-scale...
The Christian Science Monitor September 1, 2021. By Stephanie Hanes Staff writer @stephaniehanes Yvette Jordan remembers the day she learned the water fountains at her school were dangerous. It was in March 2016, and Ms. Jordan was teaching history at Barringer High...
WWF is thrilled to announce Alexa White as the winner of the second-annual WWF-US Conservation Leadership Award. This award aims to give the next generation of conservation leaders access to a global platform and experts. It also provides a financial prize that can be...
AND RACE, EQUITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Monday, March 9. 6-8pm. 154 Summit St, Newark, NJ NJIT Campus Center Atrium – for info (973) 596-3000 It’s not just Flint. In the last few years, over five million people drank water from systems that violated the...
Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 On the occasion of the exhibition Pope.L: Choir, this program brings together four leaders in the field of water safety to talk about drinking water,...
NATURAL RESOUNCES DEFENSE COUNCIL Since 1970 NRDC has worked to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based 501 non-profit international environmental...
Posted Jan 11, 2020 nj.com/opinion by Yvette Jordan By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist: Yvette Jordan The greatest gift Newark families could have received this past holiday season was safe drinking water. Unfortunately, due to Newark’s sustained, elevated lead levels,...
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