There is No Such Thing as a Single-Issue Struggle
Conversation with Dr. Antonio R. López, Executive Director of LVEJO, and Kellen Marshall, PhD candidate in ecology and evolution in the Department of Biological Sciences.
This past Tuesday on November 10th, we got to hear from historian and activist Antonio Reyes López talk about LVEJO’s (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization) local sustainability plan and how community members in Little Village are working together for environmental justice at our Zona Abierta (Open Zone) program. Here is a sampling of tweets, thanks to Kellen Marshall @greenkels who also engaged with Dr. López in conversation:
- We need to engage decision makers at all levels for healthy land and
#water in#Chicago - @LVEJO local politics/federal/state legislation/gentrification threaten sustained enviro quality of
#LittleVillage - We not only talk about the enviro but address policing and criminalization as well and is just as toxic as a coal plant
#UICFWL
All this reminds us of the powerful quote by Audre Lorde: “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”