Dr. King as a Blueprint for Activist Ethnography
As a burgeoning anthropologist, I have had to come to terms many times over with the history of the discipline. The use of words like “primitive” or “exotic” used to describe what we see as the “other”— A way in which to remove ourselves from the reality of our shared humanity.
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The Baltimore Bag Bill.
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer - Follow Will on Twitter - @TrillChillWill Each week, Clean Water meets with residents and community associations and we continue to hear one overwhelming environmental concern – an abundance of trash in our neighborhoods. Whether we’re in Hampden
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Red Herrings and Meat Dresses on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
By Neil Bhaerman, Crew Coordinator, Pittsburgh Phone Canvass - Follow Neil on Twitter (@neilanalien) If you’ve driven the Pennsylvania turnpike, especially the stretch between the state capitol in Harrisburg and the coal and gas rich southwestern counties, you’ve probably seen some eye catching
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Shake It Off & Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Americans Expect Clean Water
Americans Expect Their Elected Officials to Protect Clean Water "The new Congress could be one of the most hostile to clean water and other environmental concerns, based on the new leadership’s extreme anti-environment records and positions. But that’s not what the American people want, and it’s not
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Dressing up like farmers...
By Phil Dimotsis, Campaign Organizer - Follow Phil on Twitter (@PhiluptuousD) This Halloween and in weeks to come, polluters and their industry lobbyists are dressing up as “family farmers” attempting to scare up support to stop EPA from protecting clean water. The attire they've donned this season
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Halloween costumes scary in more ways than one
By Amanda Sebert, Consultant and Deema Dabbagh, Environmental Health Intern, Massachusetts The chemicals in these costumes are what's scary... This Halloween, we learned we have been scared for the wrong reasons. Our fears of ghouls and goblins are (probably) fictitious, but our newfound concerns
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Why I’m Blown Away by Danish Wind Energy
Lily Biggar; Former Communications Intern [Ed. Note - though we were sad to see Lily go, we're lucky enough to have her dispatches from Copenhagen] A month ago, after completing my summer internship with Clean Water Action, I wrote to say that I’d be spending the fall semester studying
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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