Fighting Back: Environmental Racism & Corporate U.S.A.

Fighting Back: Environmental Racism & Corporate U.S.A.

Environmental racism; Toxic contamination; Corporate accountability; Environmental justice; East Austin; Zoning; Oil companies; PODER; MEChA

Event flyer for a public forum titled "Fighting Back: Environmental Racism and Corporate U.S.A." held on Tuesday, April 28, 1992, from 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. in the Asian Culture Room, Texas Union 4.224. Representatives from E.A.S.T. (East Austin Strategy Team) and PODER (People Organized to Defend the Earth and its Resources) were scheduled to discuss the toxic contamination crisis in Austin's East Side. The flyer is sponsored by MEChA (El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan). It includes illustrations of oil company tanks labeled Exxon, Chevron, Texaco, and Mobile, alongside residential homes and families.

MEChA (El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan)

Austin, Texas, Austin Public Library, Austin History Center, PODER Records, AR-2012-015, Box 3, Folder 16

MEChA (El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan)

1992-04-28

E.A.S.T. (East Austin Strategy Team); PODER (People Organized to Defend the Earth and its Resources); Katharine Meyer

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Flyer; 1 page; black and white; typescript with illustrations

English

Text; Illustration

East Austin, Austin, Texas; University of Texas at Austin; 1992

Flyer; paper; black and white; typescript with illustrations; 1 page