100 of all of houston's city-owned landfills were located in predominantly black neighborhoods 100 without deviation six out of eight of the city-owned uh incinerators were located in predominantly black neighborhoods we will not allow one county to become a dump site it was not until warren county where that toxic waste landfill was placed in the middle of this predominantly black county that began to galvanize people to talk about this whole idea of environmental racism the protesters were told not to block the trucks they are now lying in the streets now blocking one front moving into the landfill they are refusing in order to move and they are being arrested one by one this black community being dumped on being targeted and people saying no we have a right to live in a clean and healthy environment that's when the whole idea of environmental justice as a national movement uh came into effect the mainstream environmental movement for too long to not realize how important this was and did not cooperate and partner with with the environmental justice movement and it took two decades for those two movements civil rights movement environmental movement to converge then we said okay environmental justice for all it's about race and class and if a community that is poor and is powerless if they're getting dumped on then that is an environmental justice issue because it's about power or lack thereof this is about human rights you