NAACP going green?
Could the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group be going green?
The NAACP has announced it plans to unveil environmental priorities when its 101st annual convention begins Saturday (July 10) in Kansas City, Mo. There'll be a workshop during the six-day gathering on the environmental and economic impacts of climate change on communities of color. The group also is promising a "major announcement" on the Gulf coast.
“Our communities are disproportionately affected by global climate change," said NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous (pictured above at last year's convention). "We envision advocating for a clean environment as a key part of a civil and human rights agenda."
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, the agency's first African-American leader, is expected to be on hand. Convention go-ers also will be able to apply there for green jobs, as NAACP leaders intend to push "green enterprise," pairing economic development with environmental protection.
(2009 AP Photo)
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Posted by: George | July 9, 2010 11:41 PM
The National NAACP could do all Black America a huge environmental favor by becoming biodegradeable, and just going away.
It's too little, too late efforts to re-make itself, is becoming environmentally sickening.
The national NAACP is nothing more environmental joke to most black Americans.
Posted by: African American Political Pundit | July 9, 2010 11:44 PM
I do not know the NAACP, but if it is for most black americans an environmental joke, then it is also a political union.
And what our politicians and their unions and parties will do, is known to us enough and this also internationally.
To disparage the problems of the environment or to remove it also, we need more than only persons which scatter us sand in our eyes.
Like High ranking politicans negotiated about the future of our planet. Delegations from 192 countries discussed in Copenhagen how the global warming can to be limited and find Ways to stop global warming.
As we know in the meantime, without any success.
Once again only Bla - Bla and mocking importance on account of the small tax payers !!!
How we can believe of any person from any govnerment politicans or other official offices worldwide ???
Nobody of this people is interested to change anything to stop global warming.
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Posted by: Erwin Heid | October 6, 2010 11:33 AM