<i>Help This Garden Grow </i>is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger talk with organizers, policy- makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement. <i>Help This Garden Grow </i>is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery.
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<i>Help This Garden Grow </i>is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger talk with organizers, policy- makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement. <i>Help This Garden Grow </i>is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery.
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Sign up for more info at <a href="https://www.respairmedia.com/help-this-garden-grow" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.respairmedia.com/help-this-garden-grow</a>!<br /><br />Sign up now for <i>Hazel's Seeds, </i>an environmental justice listening club centered around Help This Garden Grow, the award-winning podcast docuseries about Mother of Environmental Justice Hazel Johnson. Hazel’s Seeds has two paths: “Hazel’s Garden,” which is a six-session virtual book club-style discussion series facilitated by docuseries hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger alongside other voices of the contemporary EJ movement; and “Community Gardens,” which are independent listening clubs facilitated autonomously in classrooms, EJ organizations, and communities across the country. Both paths are structured around the Hazel’s Seeds Listening Guide, a community curriculum created to guide listeners through engaging with the show.
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