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CUCREJ PARTNERS

PUERTO RICO

Centro De Informacion, Investigacion Y Educacion Social (CIIES) is a non-profit organization devoted to research and assessment. Through educational materials, the Center makes scientific information-such as occupational health, industrial and mobile source pollution and natural resource use-accessible to communities, workers, students and others.

Comunidades Unidas Contra La Contaminacion (CUCCo) has been fighting against the tremendous air pollution problems stemming from industries and power plants in their immediate community for over 25 years. CUCCo is working to solve the problems in the municipalities of Catano, Guaynabo, Toa Baja and Bayamon.

NEW JERSEY

TheGreater Newark Conservancy(GNC)is working block-by-block renewing Newark by transforming abandoned lots into parks and gardens. GNC serves more than 6,000 of Newark's low-income residents through their community greening program as well as serving nearly 4,000 inner-city children through an environmental education program.

TheIronbound Community Corporation is rooted in and representative of the multi-cultural, multi-lingual, foreign-born community in Newark, New Jersey. Programs include the Ironbound Committee against Toxic Waste, Environmental Youth Leadership Training and monitoring of the state's largest garbage incinerator located in Ironbound.

NEW YORK

El Puente is a community/youth development organization nurturing holistic leadership for peace and justice, and maintains its center at the base of one of New York City's heaviest East River crossings: The Williamsburg Bridge. The center integrates a family clinic, a wellness center, a high school, and a visual and performing arts center.

The Magnolia Tree Earth Center works directly with local schools, community groups, and senior citizen centers in Brooklyn to enhance the community education system through ecological, horticultural, health, nutrition, architecture and community planning programs. The Center was an integral part of the coalition that saved the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, a train line that was targeted for closure in the predominately African-American community of Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant.

The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYCEJA) links grassroots organizations concerned with ensuring the right of communities of color and low-income communities to a clean and safe environment. Integral to this process is open participation in determining national, regional, and local environmental policy. As part of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, NYCEJA directs a city-wide transportation campaign concerning the health effects of diesel emissions.

The South Bronx Clean Air Coalitionis a congregation of community activists, religious leaders, politicians and environmentalists. Its main projects are its continuing fight against the siting of waste transportation hubs like the Bronx-Lebanon incinerator in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx and the underutilization of the Harlem River Rail Yards, a prime site for intermodal transportation development.

West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) was founded in March 1988 by community activists to fight the unhealthy and dangerous operation of the North River Sewage treatment plant as well as the possible construction of a sixth bus depot next to a school in Northern Manhattan.

ACADEMIC PARTNERS

Rutgers University at Newark: The inner-city Newark campus of the State University of New Jersey has a 52% minority student enrollment, and a long history of service to low-income and people of color communities across New Jersey. Rutgers-Newark’s Law School has had, since 1985, an environmental law clinic actively engaged in community struggles in New Jersey. It has recently started the Environmental Racism Project.

The University Transportation Research Center at the City College of the City University of New York: UTRC/CCNY is itself a consortium of 11 other major institutions in the region (Cornell University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York University, Polytechnic University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Rutgers University, State University of New York, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Puerto Rico, University of the Virgin Islands) committed to serving the region’s transportation needs as well as educating CCNY’s overwhelmingly “majority-minority” student population (over 82% minority enrollment at both the undergraduate and graduate levels).

Other Academic Partners: Mt. Sinai Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, Harlem Hospital, Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University, Insititute for Learning Technology at Columbia University, University of Puerto Rico Planning , Harlem Environmental Access Program (HEAP), and the joint NJIT/EPA Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center.