We are still in time to convince council members Ellison, Osman and Cunningham, as well as Mayor Frey, to get on the right side of environmental justice and pause the demolition of the Roof Depot beforethe next vote on Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Call or email by Tuesday, let them hear the voice of the people
Contact
Jeremiah Ellison 612.673.2205 jeremiah.ellison@minneapolismn.gov
Jamal Osman 612.673.2206 jamal.osman@minneapolismn.gov
Phillipe Cunningham 612.673.2204 phillipe.cunningham@minneapolismn.gov
Mayor Jacob Frey mayorusers@minneapolismn.gov
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Hi, My name is ______ and I’m contacting you to demand environmental justice for the East Phillips neighborhood. The neighborhood is already overburdened by pollution and the residents experience the highest rates of asthma, cardiovascular, and lead-poisoning hospitalization in the state of Minnesota. The Hiawatha Expansion Project centralizes the City’s heavy-duty-trucks and this would violate the City’s Green Zone Policy. Please support the Urban Farm Project and vote to pause the demolition of Roof Depot to give EPNI time to pay back the water fund. The East Phillips community is owed a chance, and supporting them is environmental justice.
Background: CITY COUNCIL IS POLLUTING EAST PHILLIPS
In a (7-6) vote at their POGO Committee on 9/22/21, the Minneapolis City Council reversed itself and approved a “Staff Directive” that continues the City’s own proposed Hiawatha Expansion Project at 1860 28th Street East and 2717 Longfellow Avenue South —two adjoining parcels also known as the “Roof Depot.” East Phillips is Minneapolis’s most diverse neighborhood and home to the City’s largest Indigenous community. It’s also one of the poorest and most polluted. East Phillips is located at the heart of the “Arsenic Triangle” and our residents experience the highest rates of asthma, cardiovascular, and lead-poisoning hospitalizations in Minnesota. The City of Minneapolis plans to relocate and expand their Public Works maintenance yard into the East Phillips neighborhood–a plan that will bring more pollution to an already overburdened community. Additionally, they refuse to have good faith discussions about the alternative community-based rban Farm Udevelopment project that would ensure environmental justice for the neighborhood. East Phillip neighborhood residents are predominantly low-income Native American, Latinx, African American, East African and other historically marginalized residents. The Hiawatha Expansion, the plan devised to centralize Minneapolis water maintenance, violates the sacred Green Zone Policy, and will only exacerbate the public health crisis in this historically disenfranchised community.
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