Detroit's Environmental Abuses


	Detroit's Environmental Abuses

dmegivern

7-27-2007 12:52 PM

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environment, pollution, injustice, racism, inequality

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Mothers in Detroit are trying to highlight toxic dumping and other environmental injustices

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