theLFShow Episode #270 Research & Reading List
Added 2019-11-04 16:00:02 +0000 UTCWatch/Listen to EP #270 Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
Guests:
•Sabre Jordan and Anthony Diaz, Co-Founders of the Newark Water Coalition
•Yvette Jordan, a Teacher at Central High School in Newark, New Jersey
Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:
•Yes to the People's Movement: Naomi Klein
•Cheat, Lie & Steal: Michael Hudson on the Capitalist Way
Related Articles and Resources:
•Inside the Fight for Clean Water in Newark
•‘Baraka lied to us all,’ Newark water group says. ‘We call for change’ -article by Anthony Diaz and Sabre Bee
•In Echo of Flint, Mich., Water Crisis Now Hits Newark
•Op-Ed: Cory Booker Belongs in Jail Over Newark’s Water Crisis
Bios:
The Newark Water Coalition is an advocacy group that has declared the Newark water contamination crisis a public health emergency. The coalition is working together to inform and educate the residents and other consumers about the dangers and ailments that are associated with the contaminants in the water by way of but not limited to drinking, bathing, brushing teeth. The coalition is calling on our government stakeholders, healthcare providers, faith and community-based organizations to make this public health crisis a priority, allocate the adequate funding to fix our infrastructure, test our people and provide clean water for all!
Music Featured in the Middle of the Podcast:
“For the Courageous” by Climbing PoeTree from their album Intrinsic, courtesy of Climbing PoeTree.
INTRINSIC explores the inescapable network of mutuality that binds our existence through the ricochet of oppression and the reciprocity of liberation, reminding us all that we belong to each other.
