Mike Pence Was Asked to Solve the Lead Poisoning Crisis in His Own Backyard—Here's What Happened Next | Alternet

Flint isn't the only Midwestern city dealing with lead poisoning; East Chicago, Indiana, 250 miles away, is experiencing a crisis all their own. And like activists at Standing Rock, residents of the small city are rising up and demanding change.

"We've been very much involved in organizing of community folks in the West Calumet [Housing Complex]... the most important is helping them understand that they do have the power, that they cannot sit back and rely upon the public officials to tell them that everything is okay or tell them what to do, so we've been organizing them so that they can find their own voice and putting together some demands so that they get some remediations," said Reverend Cheryl Rivera of the Northwest Indiana Federation of Interfaith Organizations....
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