Environmental Justice: Lindsay Collaboration

for environmental justice. These results can be presented in court and hearings to help save communities and lives. We read about many examples how these worked in our book, and one of those examples was the Lindsey collaboration. The Lindsey collaboration used street science to understand what pesticide did to the air and the how it affected the bodies in the community of Lindsey. Lindsay collaborative was a citizen science alliance that looked at the burden of chlorpyrifos and the air in of the Latino residents in Tulare County. This alliance believed that it is best to work with the people directly affected. They used air-monitors to collect air samples and how the chlorpyrifos affects the body. With the data collected, they joined other
They combat the environmental injustices in Madison by organizing the people facing the health risk to create leaders and change. They wanted to find out the blindness that comes with environmental injustice. They interacted with agencies and academic actors about the fish toxicity, but they did not make leeway. They saw that the communities affected had a low percentage of whites, and the whites were the people working in the agencies or academic actors. They used their resources and power to tackle the problems that minorities had in the community. Fishes were important in the diet of the Hmong and minorities. They organized research to see the toxin levels in the fishes that was not studied by agencies and academic actors, and to end the communication gap which certain groups in Madison was not told of the toxins in the fish because signs and warnings were not in their
Agencies did not care to make warnings available to other ethnicities and cultures. MEJO had to fight for the Hmong people in Madison. The Hmong had a different language and culture than the whites in the commission, and this caused the Hmong people to be neglected. The Madison commission was not consuming fish as much as the Hmong, and they did not see the problems of the toxins in the lakes and waterway in Madison. Also, they did not speak the language of the Hmong, and they did not care to translate the pamphlet and the signs their language. They did not care to include this group because no one on the community is from this culture. Last, is how agencies and scientists treated street science because these people were poor, and these agencies deemed them as uneducated. The people in these communities did not go to college, and these agencies knows that some may not be uneducated. When there is one that is educated, and took the time to become an expert, the person will not be treated with the respect they deserve because of their class. Then they must go above and beyond the call of duty to receive respect and see change. They must know how to inform and gather together their community, they must learn the jargon of the science and agencies that are promoting pollution and environmental injustice, and lastly, build a network of people who can work