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Some people are aghast that we‘ve connected dots between environmental, econ, social, + racial justice in the #GreenNewDeal. Despite Flint, Standing Rock, Puerto Rico, Katrina, & WV, people desperately want us blind to the injustices of frontline communities. Here’s another ⬇️

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Matt Katz

@mattkatz00

Feb 23, 2019

Paper & plastics that half of Philly thinks it’s sending for recycling is actually getting burned at a plant next door in Chester, Pa., likely sickening its impoverished African American residents theguardian.com/cities/2019/fe

12:02 AM · Feb 24, 2019

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Join the fight for the #GreenNewDeal!

Hypersensory Space Rabbit Bonnie Smalley

@Bonniezilla

Feb 24, 2019

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@AOC

Girl, you should see what we're dealing with in South Jersey. Dupont/Chemours refuses to clean up the worst chemical disaster on the planet. We are all very sick and/or dying. So fucked, so forgotten by our own state. #FuckDupont

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According to you, EVERYONE is a "frontline community," except for white middle class and wealthy men. EVERYONE else is a "frontline community." It's nuts, just like the rest of the Green New Deal.

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And, by the way, I'm not exaggerating. According to the text of the Green New Deal resolution, EVERYONE is a "frontline community" … except for white middle-class and wealthy men. Read it for yourself.

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Thank you for name-checking West Virginia

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‘Frontline communities’ need solutions but it is flatly unconstitutional given equal protections clause for you to assign people of color, women, youth, disabled people and rural people ‘leadership’ of #greennewdeal programs and leave out everyone else.