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call (213) 387-2800 to order
Publications:
L.A.'s
Lethal Air / El aire Mortal de Los Angeles (Spanish edition)
--by Eric
Mann and the WATCHDOG Organizing Committee
 "L.A.'S
LETHAL AIR charts new ground in environmental politics. It targets
corporate industrial policy, class relationships, and institutional
racism as the primary causes of the ecological crisis. I strongly
urge scholars of the environment, urban politics, Black and Chicano
studies, and social movements to adopt this book for your courses."
Cynthia Hamilton,Chair
African and African American Studies,
University of Rhode Island
L.A.'s Lethal
Air offers an innovative analysis of the urban ecological catastrophe.
Los Angeles is a first and third world city, the majority of whose
residents are low-income workers, mostly of color, and it is the
largest industrial and auto-dependent city in the U.S. L.A.'s Lethal
Air, first written to help galvanize L.A.'s multiracial environmental
justice organization, the WATCHDOG, synthesizes environmental health,
urban politics, and organizing strategy, and offers a powerful antidote
to the toxic nostrums of market-based and corporate dominated environmentalism.
It advocates a two-pronged clean air plan of toxic use elimination
in major industry and a mass transit system focusing on zero emission
vehicles--driven by a long-term movement led by workers, low-income
people, women, and people of color.
The chapter
titles reflect the methodology:
- Los Angeles:
A City of Contradictions
- L.A.'s Lethal
Air Pollution: Smog and Air Toxics
- The Human
Toll: People at Risk
- The Unspoken
Categories of Public Health: Class, Race, and Gender
- The Corporate
Source of the Problem
- A New Strategy
and Program for Environmental Organizing
L.A.'s Lethal
Air is used as a text in college courses at more than 20 universities
including U.C.L.A., Harvard, Columbia, and York University, as well
as by activists from groups such as Greenpeace, the Canadian Auto
Workers, and the Southwest Organizing Project.
Beautifully
illustrated and written in a compelling style that has led to its
adoption in freshman core courses along with classics such as Invisible
Man, L.A.'s Lethal Air offers a hopeful approach to grassroots organizing
in the age of GATT, NAFTA, and the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
El Aire Mortal
de Los Angeles, Spanish Language Edition, is perfect for bilingual
education classes, and environmentalists in Spanish speaking communities
and nations.
Publication
#5: English, 1990, 82 pages, color. $15. Publication #6: Spanish,
1993, 92 pages, color. $15.
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