Power politics : environmental activism in south Los Angeles

Power politics : environmental activism in south Los Angeles / Karen Brodkin.

In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electricpower created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neig...

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Main Author: Brodkin, Karen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Sunlaw Energy Partners (Firm)
Environmental justice > California > South Gate.
Student movements > California > South Gate.
Hispanic American high school students > Political activity > California > South Gate.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Ecology
Environmental justice
Student movements
South Gate (Calif.) > Environmental conditions.
California > South Gate
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • South Gate transitions
  • Environmental justice
  • Creating an environmental justice campaign
  • Sunlaw's new pollution control technology
  • The perfect storm
  • Finding traction at South Gate High School
  • Going public
  • Sudden death.

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