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Friday, November 8, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Robert Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark University, will give a lecture, "Racism and the Environment," at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Bullard is widely acknowledged as one of the leaders of the "environmental justice movement." In a 1999 interview with the Earth First Journal, Bullard said the movement addresses "all of the inequities that result from human settlement, industrial facility siting and industrial development."
Bullard has written ten books in the area of racism and the environment, including "Confronting Environmental Racism," "Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality," and "Sprawl City: Race Politics and Planning in Atlanta." He is currently completing a book, "Just Sustainability: Development in an Unequal World." Bullard, who also holds the Ware Professorship in Sociology at Clark University, was a member of President Clinton's 1990 Transition Team for Natural Resources and the Environment.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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