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Peace Development Fund IncA crowdfunding campaign for Downwinders at Risk as part of Grassroots Funding Week.
$1,305
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$3,000 goal
Grassroots Fundraiser for Downwinders at Risk
Based in Dallas, Texas, Downwinders at Risk has worked for over two decades to build a strong grassroots constituency and create new strategies for clean air in North Texas. We do this by informing, connecting and mobilizing citizens to become active participants in the decision-making that affects the air we breathe. In doing so, we improve both the quality of our air and the quality of our democracy.
Downwinders at Risk has received a Community Organizing Grant from the Peace Development Fund and all of the money raised from this fundraiser will be added to that grant to help support their organizing in 2020. Please consider making a contribution today to support them and read more about their work below.
"Current Dallas zoning reflects decades of institutionalized racism. It’s forced low-income and Black and Brown residents to live, go to school, play, and work adjacent to the City’s worst industrial polluters along and inside the floodplain of the Trinity River that divides the city north to south. Dallas' pollution burden is borne disproportionately by these riverfront communities, impacting everything from their hospitalization rates and medical costs to school attendance and test scores.
Remedying this kind of environmental health inequity means reversing the racist zoning that created Dallas’ inequitable pollution burdens in the first place. We’re requesting funding for a current campaign aimed at doing just that.
In 2020 Dallas City Hall is wrestling with its most high-profile environmental justice issue in 20 years. The huge "Shingle Mountain" illegal dump in Southern Dallas has become a powerful symbol of the city's environmental inequities. At the same time, the City is officially launching a milestone land use review process centered on fulfilling aspirational neighborhood plans. Downwinders and its allies want to take advantage of this confluence of circumstances to press for substantial zoning and policy changes in the City Code such as the de-industrialization of the Trinity River floodplain. "
Downwinders at Risk COVID-19 Response:
"Before the virus hit Downwinders At Risk was already fighting for Dallas' first Environmental Justice agenda. Now we're connecting the "pre-existing conditions" in Black and Brown front line communities that were already making residents disproportionately sick, including dirty air, to their disproportionate vulnerability in this pandemic. An up-coming city-wide land use review will give us a chance to reverse the racist zoning fueling these inequities and build an EJ template for other cities."
Website: https://www.downwindersatrisk.org/
Downwinders at Risk is a participant in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign that supports several social justice organizations from across the country.
Monday: Economic Justice Rising
Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center
Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights
#GivingTuesday: Invest in Community Organizing
As part of #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving in response to COVID-19, all the money raised on Tuesday, May 5th will be distributed evenly to all participating groups.
Click here to give to all participating groups.
Wednesday: Celebrating Culture, Building Solidarity
International Traditional Games Society
Thursday: Taking Back Our Cities
Downwinders at Risk
Phoenix Local Organizing Committee
Friday: Beyond Incarceration
Women Against Mass Incarceration
American Indian Prison Project Working Group
For more information, visit: www.peacedevelopmentfund.org
The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.