CROSSING THE RIVER: HOW LOCAL STRUGGLES BUILD A BROADER MOVEMENT |
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| Authors: | Florence Gardner Simon Greer |
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| Affiliation: | Staff members of CAFE and (Gardner) doctoral candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley;(Greer) preparing master's thesis in social history Antioch University. 3130 Tigerville Road, Travelers Rest, SC 29690 |
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| Abstract: | A case study of environmental justice organizing in South Carolina explores how local activists can build an oppositional ideology that connects to a broader agenda for social justice. A multi-issue, state-wide workers' rights organization provided ideological context and strategic experience that enabled residents fighting to clean up a polluted pond to connect their concern to a wider effort for economic justice and undoing racism. The organization's worker-centered, multi-racial identity and an organizing strategy that exposes contradictions of the dominant ideology are seen as enabling these wider connections. |
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