Rights to a Clean Environment for All

In many parts of the bay, we enjoy comfortable lives. We have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. We live in quiet, peaceful neighborhoods, and we don’t have to worry about our safety when we step out the door. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the citizens of West Oakland.

Residents of West Oakland are surrounded on all four sides by highways, and breathe car exhaust every day. They are forced to cope with pollution from the trucks that come and go everyday to pick up and drop off supplies at the Port of Oakland. Worst of all, the citizens of West Oakland live among factories that make unbearable noise while releasing toxic fumes into the residential neighborhood.

We produced two short videos that highlight the lives of residents in the area and the work of students from EXCEL High School in West Oakland who found lead levels inside their school to be 54 times higher than the EPA standard.

This was done in collaboration with AllVoices.com where the two videos can be viewed.

• Rights to a Clean Enviornment for All: Part 1
• Rights to a Clean Enviornment for All: Part 2

• An Update on the situation between CASS and Global Community Monitor