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April 14, 2009

Lecture: Race, Justice, and the Environment: Getting a Place at the Table

Richard Mabion

Environmental Justices is defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Richard's presentation will use his own community in Kansas City, Kansas, to demonstrate how instead of the above definition being used to foster EJ movements, white dominated environmentalists and institution-trained people of color leaders have been using 1960 style philosophies of using racism as the way to be heard.

Date: April 14, 2009
Time: 07:00PM - 08:30PM
Location: Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
Department: Center for Sustainability
Contact: 785-864-5804, jseverin@ku.edu
http://www.sustainability.ku.edu/Events/Blue_to_Green.shtml
Ticket Cost: Free

Richard Mabion is visionary with an entrepreneurial spirit that sees value in creating ways for urban residents to feel pride in who they really are and what they have been able to actually accomplish. After a career that spanned 3 decades of urban social engineering, which included the operation of a business that hired and trained an inner-city workforce, Richard teamed up with a few key but under represented and often overlooked community leaders, in the Quindaro community in Kansas City, Kansas. In 2006 Richard founded Building A Sustainable Earth Community. As a results of his efforts, the community was honored to have the Pitch News organization selected both an organic farm and the "Q" Brew Coffee Shop two Quindaro businesses as their choice for the best of in Kansas City in 2007, and then Richard himself as the 2008-Activist of the year for the state of Kansas.
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