Thread by @JoeThorntonLab

With the incredible Hazel Johnson, the “mother of the environmental justice movement” and founder of People for Community Recovery, Altgeld Gardens, Chicago, in 1990. #environmentaljustice

In these photos, Hazel and I were blockading a hazardous waste incinerator on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Tireless activism by Hazel and others shut down this facility and scores of similar incinerators during the next decade.

Legislation now before Congress would designate every April “Hazel Johnson Environmental Justice Month” and posthumously award her the Congressional Gold Medal. Thank you @RepBobbyRush.

Thanks to @charliefcray and #greenpeace for finding the photos, and for organizing.