Green-Collar Jobs: Laboring into the Next Economy - Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durzazo, and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra | Bioneers Radio Series VIII (2008)

Summary: Labor leader Cesar Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city clergy, not suburbanites, led the latest victory against the big-box Wal-Mart stores sprawling over community open space. Unlikely allies? Environmental justice and labor leaders Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durazo and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra show us that in a truly sustainable economy, everybody is an environmentalist-and a healthy environment depends on economic justice.