Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Celebrating Open Space Milestones, Little Village Unveils Plans for Urban Farm & Park

El Gato — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:08:14 PDT

Park-poor community’s first new green spaces in 80 years advance local solutions to obesity, climate change

One will host soccer fields and walking trails. The other will host organic beans and tomatoes. Both are former contaminated sites that comprise the first new green spaces in more than 80 years in a community that [...]

“My name is Peter” Clean Air Campaign draws wide attention

El Gato — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:22:28 PDT

Peter is making quite the impact in the Chicago Beyond Coal ad campaign!

More outlets have gotten wind of the ad launch and have started connecting the coal fights on both the local and national level:

The American Independent: http://www.americanindependent.com/194831/obamas-smog-decision-backed-by-big-business-donors-called-a-huge-loss-for-public-health

“I want to fight for my kid to be able to breathe, [...]

Fisk and Crawford are two of Chicago’s largest contributors to climate change

El Gato — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:05:03 PDT

Little Village, Chicago-At 11:00am today, six activists with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), Rising Tide North America, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the Backbone Campaign were arrested after climbing the fence to Midwest Generation’s controversial Crawford coal plant in Little Village. The activists unfurled a 7′ x 30′ banner atop a 20 [...]

Everyone in Little Village gets involved…

El Gato — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:36:51 PDT

Our mission is to work with our families, coworkers, and neighbors to improve our environment and lives in Little Village and through out Chicago through democracy in action. We work for a real voice in building democracy, including if, how, when and where any development of our communities takes place, as the basis for environmental, [...]

Quality Public Transit is important to everyone! Stand Up for Your Right to Social Justice.

El Gato — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:49:48 PDT

Transit Riders for Public Transportation (TRPT) is a new national campaign that aims to intervene in the reauthorization of the national surface transportation act. We are changing the terms of the debate by flipping the script. TRPT is asking for an 80% transportation and 20% highway and freeway funding split as [...]

Climate Justice takes center stage at COP16 and with LVEJO!

El Gato — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:36:54 PST

Take a look at the new LVEJO Climate Justice section

The start of this week marks the commencement of conversations about solutions in all different venues and by different agents. Each of these spaces suitably reflects what it stands for through just glimpsing at their structure.

The UN COP16, a closed [...]

What would it take for the Fisk, Crawford, and State Line coal-fired power plants to close up shop? And what would happen if they did?

El Gato — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:46:37 PDT

When the Fisk, Crawford, and State Line coal-fired power plants were built roughly a century ago, they were gleaming symbols of progress and modernization. Fisk made history when it opened in Pilsen in 1903: its five-megawatt vertical steam-driven turbine was the largest of its kind. Crawford went online in 1924, and in 1929 [...]

We demand clean air, clean power, and the same social justice everyone deserves.

El Gato — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:59:42 PDT

Somebody needed to clear the air in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

For years, many residents grew tomatoes and cucumbers—but not in the ground because they suspected the soil in their yards wasn’t safe enough for the food they would put on the family table. “Homeowners who knew better grew produce in pots,” said [...]

Don’t Privatize Our Water

El Gato — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:48:21 PDT

by Melanie Cervantes of JustSeeds

The City of Chicago has a history of privatizing public assets in order to get a quick influx of cash to fill budget holes (the Chicago Skyway and the city’s parking meters were both leased out to private companies, to name a couple examples). Chicago’s economic state is [...]

Teachers Resisting Arizona Laws Come to the Midwest @ Little Village Lawndale Social Justice H.S

El Gato — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:05:13 PDT

DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2011 TIME: 7:00 PM-9:00pm LOCATION: Little Village Lawndale Social Justice High School - 3120 South Kostner Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623 The Arizona ban on Mexican American Studies represents an attack on immigrants, people of color, youth, teachers, community control of schools, and critical pedagogy. Norma Gonzales and Jose Gonzales [...]