Why Aren’t Liberals Speaking Out Against F-35s?
By S. Michael Shivers, Cap Times letter to the editor, Jan. 12, 2018 Dear Editor: Having known for months that…
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MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell wrote three essays on Dr. King and his views on the “giant triplets of…
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MEJO founder Dr. Maria Powell wins Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award
On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023…
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MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award
MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award from the Midwest Environmental Advocates MARIA POWELL…
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PFAS “at levels of concern” in Starkweather Creek? What does this mean?
MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong stands next to PFAS “advisory” sign next to heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek just downstream of the Dane…
How environmental injustices are created in privileged, “progressive” Madison
The photo above depicts the “gas house” and “bridge” (red) Kraft-Heinz built on the Hartmeyer property west of the factory…
Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking
[Above: giant storm drain that receives stormwater runoff from one of the most contaminated areas at Dane County Regional Airport…
City of Madison is creating glaring environmental injustices right before our eyes!
[Northsider Dave Bierman standing where the City of Madison plans to locate affordable housing near the old Kraft-Heinz/Oscar Mayer factory.…
Breaking News! Starkweather Creek is as stagnant and PFAS-poisoned as ever!
[Above, Starkweather Creek draining from Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Air National Guard base. Photo-Maria Powell] *** Last week…
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“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we…
Madison’s upside-down environmental justice approach = environmental injustice (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget, Part II).
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens with MEJO leaders in early 2020 near Starkweather Creek where we tested PFAS in…
The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget? (Part 1)
[Above: Martin Luther King Jr. delivering a speech on the Vietnam War and his anti-war beliefs to a crowd of…
The Cold War in Madison: Nuclear missiles assembled and stored at Truax Field
[Above: Former nuclear rocket bunkers at Bridges Golf Course, Sept. 27, 2021] ******************** This article is also posted on Historic…
What is being done about Starkweather Creek? The military is spewing (or burying) PFAS contamination, proposing experimental “pilot” studies
[Above, storm drains discharging into Starkweather Creek from the PFAS-soaked Truax Field. Photo-Maria Powell] “Something has to be done immediately”…
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“‘Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways”–Wisconsin Watch
Above–MEJO’s Ida Jammeh (left) talking with residents of Darbo-Worthington neighborhood about Starkweather Creek in 2018 (photo by Maria Powell). Learn…