{"id":1439,"date":"2024-03-27T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:41:33","slug":"robert-d-bullard-writes-to-the-next-ej-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/education\/robert-d-bullard-writes-to-the-next-ej-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert D. Bullard Writes to the Next EJ Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am a proud boomer and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6316575\/vietnam-environmental-crackdown\/\">Vietnam<\/a>-era Marine Corps veteran. I am also an environmental-justice fighter. When I began this work in 1979, environmental justice was a footnote. Through our efforts, it is now a headline. But these days, millennials, Generation X, Generation Y, and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/charter\/6200157\/gen-z-workplace-change\/\">Generation Z<\/a> combined far outnumber my generation. So we must equip future generations with the tools and resources to take our plight across the finish line to build <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6255896\/turkey-rebuild-earthquake-climate-resilience\/\">climate-resilient<\/a> communities. Environmental justice embraces the principle that all communities are entitled to equal protection and equal enforcement, along with access to housing, transportation, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6160147\/global-food-security-crisis\/\">food security<\/a>, water, health, and clean energy. Everyone deserves to live in pollution-free neighborhoods where kids can play outside and on playgrounds that chemical plants and landfills do not surround.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6958830\/earth-awards-2024-robert-d-bullard\/\">Times.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am a proud boomer and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. I am also an environmental-justice fighter. When I began this work in 1979, environmental justice was a footnote. Through our efforts, it is now a headline. But these days, millennials, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z combined far outnumber my generation. So we must&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}