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Spheres of Influence
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Standing on Principle: The Global Push for Environmental Justice Luz Claudio Abstract
Since the 1991 drafting of the Principles of Environmental Justice, the environmental justice movement has gained ground around the world. Networks of community-based organizations working on different issues related to the environment, groups organized around a particular labor sector to improve worker health, and groups around the world who find themselves fighting similar environmental problems are discovering they can bring about important changes by learning from their similar experiences. Emergildo Criollo Quenema (left) , Cofán indigenous leader from Ecuador, and resident Rita Maldonado (right) , brought bottles of polluted water to a 2006 ChevronTexaco shareholders' meeting in Houston, Texas. In a class-action lawsuit launched by more than 30,000 Ecuadorians, ChevronTexaco is accused of dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rainforest where the Cofán live. A groundswell of actions such as this is bringing the voices of disadvantaged populations to the corporate table.
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