{"id":92750,"date":"2020-11-02T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=92750"},"modified":"2020-11-08T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:23:26","slug":"meet-the-climate-activists-across-chicago-holding-harmful-companies-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/meet-the-climate-activists-across-chicago-holding-harmful-companies-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the climate activists across Chicago holding harmful companies accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Natalie Eilbert<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In South Deering on Chicago\u2019s South Side, the foul odors emanating from nearby facilities are so pungent that people waiting at the bus stop at 100th Street and Torrence have nearly passed out. Landfills, recycling centers and facilities have cranked, hauled, emitted and dumped in residential areas for generations, but neighborhoods are fighting back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throughout the Chicago area, environmental justice organizations like Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke, Southeast Youth Alliance, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Environmental Justice Evanston, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (P.E.R.R.O.), Southeast Environmental Task Force, Blacks in Green and many others have organized, spearheaded environmental justice resolutions and protested against environmental injustices. For these residents, it\u2019s personal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For Gina Ramirez, leader of the Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke and the Midwest outreach manager for the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), defending the South Side is also about defending her Mexican-American bloodlines. Her great-grandfather was offered a free train ticket to South Chicago in exchange for working at US Steel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere was so much racism working in the mills. It was so terrible. Mexican immigrants really had to forge their own community here,\u201d Ramirez said. Ramirez is a third-generation Southeast Side resident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rich cultural history \u2014 from one of the oldest Mexican Independence Day parades to the Lady of Guadalupe, the \u201ccentral hub\u201d for Mexican Catholic residents \u2014 lent enormous pride to the people of Southeast Side. Ramirez \u201cbelieved the hype\u201d about her neighborhood, but always, there was that odor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen we would drive to my grandma\u2019s house, we would pass this certain factory and my parents would always clockwork say, \u2018Roll up your windows.\u2019 I always hated that, the foul odors and the piles of debris \u2014 I didn\u2019t even know what I was looking at,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92752\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92752\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_0116-1536x726.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln Park residents complained for years about \u201cfugitive dust\u201d from scrap metal shredding. In 2018, the Air and Radiation Division of the Environmental Protection Agency slapped a citation on General Iron Industries. The EPA revealed that between 7.8 and 9% of Lincoln Park residents suffer from asthma. (Natalie Eilbert\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two moments of reckoning established Ramirez\u2019s activism. When she traveled with her father to downtown Chicago to pick up his paychecks, she saw right away the differences in air quality and cleanliness at the heart of Chicago\u2019s metropolis. And then the 1995 heatwaves forced her and her family to drive in the car all night, because life indoors was unbearable that summer. She and her family could have died, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI carried these things to college with me and I learned the terms for them. The first time I heard \u2018environmental racism,\u2019 I thought: \u2018This is my neighborhood,\u2019\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Institutional programs like the Keller Science Action Center, the conservation and community arm of the Field Museum, help young people appreciate Chicago\u2019s natural landscapes and educate them on industrial obstacles of the past and present. Environmental educator Ian Viteri works with high school students in a program called Calumet Is My Backyard, or CIMBY. Ecology lessons about identifying local birds, plants and trees can turn into conversations about air quality rollbacks and connecting communities to nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe ask what it means to be environmental stewards, which leads to talk about what\u2019s happening in the area and natural habitats, and then that talks about pollution,\u201d Viteri said. \u201cThen it starts snowballing into big environmental justice issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92753\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92753\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/1345308046_0ad64370f2_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/1345308046_0ad64370f2_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/1345308046_0ad64370f2_b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/1345308046_0ad64370f2_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Field Museum\u2019s Keller Science Action Center educates young people on the presence of nature in their backyards. They work often with high school students living along the Calumet River and run a program called Calumet in My Backyard, or CIMBY. (Lise Andres\/Creative Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Urban Anthropology Manager Mario Longoni, also of the Keller Science Action Center, said that while they don\u2019t directly engage with environmental justice activism, they collaborate with projects by organizations like Southeast Environmental Task Force (SETF), LVEJO, P.E.R.R.O. and El Hogar del Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role at the Field Museum, in anything we have our fingers in, is an informational, educational, community assets developing role,\u201d Longoni said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One alumnus of CIMBY, Luis Cabrales, formed the Southeast Youth Alliance in his junior year of college with his cousin, Nicolas Robledo. Growing up, Cabrales became increasingly aware of the mountains of petroleum coke, more commonly referred to as petcoke, a few blocks from his house on the Southeast Side. Like Ramirez, black debris from these mounds was an everyday occurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy cousin lives right by the river,\u201d Cabrales said. \u201cHis alley is immediately next to the old factory that used to be there on the river. Growing up \u2014 and this still blows my mind \u2014 he didn\u2019t have windows that opened. I don\u2019t know who made that decision, but his windows never opened because of all the dust that blew in and around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92754\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92754\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/30794185986_7f7e4c4ef6_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/30794185986_7f7e4c4ef6_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/30794185986_7f7e4c4ef6_b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/30794185986_7f7e4c4ef6_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viewed on top of a landfill, Big Marsh Park represents one of the only bike parks on the South Side. Luis Cabrales says that if you look across the street from the park, you\u2019ll spot the industrial corridors that have become synonymous with the Southeast Side. On the other side, like a noxious sleeping giant, the landfills blemish the vista. \u201cThe juxtaposition of this natural area next to the landfill and the empty factories. &#8230; I love the intersections,\u201d Cabrales says. (Steven Vances\/Creative Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cabrales only graduated this August with a degree in health, but his background centers around the environment, conservation and restoration, thanks to the education the Field Museum gave him. The Southeast Youth Alliance holds annual volunteer days at Big Marsh Park, a park big enough to hold around 275 football fields. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite its location, it\u2019s difficult for the Southeast Side community to get to Big Marsh Park without a car, and it\u2019s one of the only bike parks on the South Side.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nancy Loeb, clinical professor with the Pritzker Law School and director of the Environmental Advocacy Group at Northwestern University, has been working with grassroots climate organizations and monitoring vulnerable regions like the South Side for years. In defending these critical communities, she notes the paradox of their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. Loeb explained that community leaders\u2019 push for better breathing conditions forced facilities like KCBX Terminals in the South Side, owned by Koch Industries, to put up air quality monitors about three years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Only through this facilities requirement did they learn about the presence of manganese in the air. Manganese is a neurotoxin linked to Parkinson\u2019s-type syndromes and may also affect brain development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs far as I know, there hasn\u2019t been the kind of widespread testing or monitoring to know everything that\u2019s there,\u201d Loeb said. \u201cSo we don\u2019t know what people are breathing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ramirez still lives in the South Side busily bringing up her family\u2019s fourth generation \u2014 her son \u2014 to the neighborhood. As a mother, she doesn\u2019t want to have to tell her son to roll up the windows. Ramirez said that the driving force for her environmental activism is parenthood, and darkly, what her son has come to inherit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt just breaks my heart,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I continue to do the work that I do. No one should have to be censoring their lives or avoiding certain streets. No one should have to live like that. This is our neighborhood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Natalie Eilbert is a health, science and environmental reporter at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalie_eilbert\"><i>@natalie_eilbert.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalie Eilbert Medill Reports In South Deering on Chicago\u2019s South Side, the foul odors emanating from nearby facilities are so pungent that people waiting at the bus stop at 100th Street and Torrence have nearly passed out. 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