EJ Techniques + Tactics
Events
Reformist v. Revolutionary
Vocabulary
100

Public demonstration in which participants voice their opposition towards a common idea

Protests and Rallies.

100

This report commissioned by the California Waste Management board in 1984 recommended that that incinerators be located in places with low education and income levels.

Cerrell Report

100

Disruptive activism is an example of which approach?

Revolutionary

100

The process of embedding within an organization or social system (in doing so, behaviors and ideas become patterned, regulated, and established as new norms)

Institutionalization

200

Organization method usually made up of small independant community groups; Dependent on volunteers

Grassroots Organizing

200

In this city a hazardous waste incinerator was placed, that at the time was the largest hazardous waste fill west of the Mississippi, & when the public found issue with this a hearing was held in a county fair ground building

Kettleman City

200

 Government is most likely to fund this approach to implementing change

Reformist

200

Refers to the reduction of sate influence on the economy, including focus on deregulation and privatization.

Neoliberalism

300

Act of lawfully attempting to influence the decisions of public officials

Lobbying

300

This pile of over 600,000 tons of concrete debris in Huntington Park, Los Angeles resulted in the hazardous spread of dust throughout the neighborhood and was not fully cleaned up until 2013 was referred to as

La Montana

300

The early Environmental Justice movement is described to mainly use this approach

Revolutionary

300

The process of being influenced to change original goals in order to fit a different agenda

Co-optation

400

A way in which citizens can include themselves in government decision-making

Participation

400

This piece of legislation required that by 2020 greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to the levels from 1990, and by 2050 to 80 percent below the 1990 levels and was comprised of a mere 13 pages. Also the main strategy to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industry was a market-based cap-and-trade system.

AB 32 or Assembly Bill 32

400

 Policy advocacy from California Environmental Justice Alliance is and example of ____ .

Reformist

400

System implemented to control carbon emissions by which upper limits are set, but further emission capacity can be bought from those who have not reached the cap

Cap-and-Trade

500

Voluntary initiatives where residents report environmental issues overlooked by the state

Environmental Reporting Task Forces; Identifying Violations Affecting Neighborhoods (IVAN)

500

(Blank) thousand tons of toxic ash, dust, and other hazardous wastes were projected to be released per year due to the implementation of the at least 34 East Los Angeles incinerators

19000

500

This approach has the drawback of the potential disconnect of passionate advocates of the movement due to it's lack of community engagement

Reformist

500

Describes mainstream movement focused on protecting natural resources and improve the quality of the environment overall (pitfall of ignoring EJ)

(Mainstream/Elite) Environmentalism