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Building a Movement

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Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States

Three out of five black and Hispanic Americans lived in communities near toxic waste sites. The report didn't look at why heavy industry and toxic waste sites were placed here. People make decisions about where to put this stuff just the way they did when they built that dump in Warren County.

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