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Article

1 Mar 2005

Author:
Steve Lerner, Common Ground [USA]

The Rosa Parks of the Environmental Justice Movement: Margie Richard [USA]

From her trailer in a small town in Louisiana, a retired schoolteacher took on the world’s 10th largest corporation to save her community...Until four years ago, Margie Richard lived in a trailer smack on the fenceline with a giant Shell/Motiva [joint venture Shell & Saudi Aramco] refinery and a Shell Chemical plant. [describes illnesses of residents near refinery & plant, injuries & deaths due to plant & refinery accidents]