Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1)
Leaotis Rallies Bayview Residents for Justice
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Justice for Bayview Hunters Point
KC Youth On the March June 19, 2010
Kettleman City, CA
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Treasure Island press conference March 14, 2019 (2)
Treasure Island, CA
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Mojave girls dancing at Ward Valley occupation of proposed nuclear dump site, February 1998
Indigenous Communities & Lands
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Gonzales Youth Academy
Salinas Valley Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Academy
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We are a multiracial grassroots organization founded by, led by, and working with low-income and working-class urban, rural, and indigenous communities to fight for environmental justice and build a clean, healthy, and just future for all.
We believe we can achieve environmental and social justice by working with frontline communities and building a strong grassroots movement to create real solutions that ensure our human right to a healthy and livable environment with justice for generations to come.

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CAMPAIGNS & PROGRAMS

We work with communities for

A Zero Waste Future, No Dumping & Burning

various communities

In August 2016 Greenaction and El Pueblo reached a historic and precedent-setting settlement with the state agencies that requires them to end racial discriminatory permit practices. Today we work to force the state to comply with all aspects of the civil rights settlement, and to oppose new permits for the hazardous waste landfill... read more

Clean Air & Clean Water

various communities

In Bayview Hunters Point, Greenaction, in partnership with four community organizations, has begun a multi-year community air monitoring project to identify and reduce particulate matter pollution. In Kettleman City, we are continuing to organize for clean water and hope to have clean drinking water in the summer of... read more

Cleanup of Contaminated Sites

various communities

In California, Greenaction and a Bayview Hunters Point community coalition are campaigning to get the Navy, government agencies and the developer Lennar/Five Points to thoroughly and safely cleanup toxic and radioactive contamination at this massive federal Superfund site. In Utah, we are working with White Mesa ... read more

Community Empowerment & Education

Various Communities

In 2015, after defeating the proposed arc technology, Greenaction began the summer Youth Environmental Justice Leadership Academy programs in the Salinas Valley. We have held leadership academies in Utah and Arizona. Our program focuses on educating and building the skills, knowledge and power within frontline communities... read more

Protection of Indigenous Lands

various communities

Greenaction works with Native Nations and other Indigenous partners and allies to protect Indigenous people’s health, environment and sacred and culturally significant sites. Greenaction supports and respects Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations. State and federal governments everywhere must respect Tribal Sovereignty... read more

Energy & Climate Justice

Various communities

Greenaction works with urban, rural and Indigenous communities in campaigns for clean, renewable energy and just solutions to the climate crisis. We are on the frontlines of community-based campaigns against new and proposed fossil fuel power plants. We work in many communities to reduce diesel pollution, work to stop existing ... read more

Environmental Justice & Civil Rights

Various Communities

Greenaction is a national leader in challenging government agencies that receive federal and/or state funding to consider civil rights impacts and to refrain from racially discriminatory permit and regulatory processes and decisions. As an organization founded by, and led by, grassroots leaders from frontline urban, rural and Indigenous communities impacted by... read more

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Check out Greenaction’s Presentations to California EPA/Department of Toxic Substances Control’s so-called Board of Enviromental Safety about hazardous waste landfills in Kettleman City and Buttonwillow, California and in out-of-state garbage dumps

March 21, 2024: * Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Ongoing & New Violations of Environmental Justice and the 2016 Kettleman City Civil Rights Settlement March 2023: Kettleman City, Buttonwillow, and Out-of-State Solid Waste Landfills: Racial Read more…

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We are a 10 minute walk from the Powell Street BART station.
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466 Geary Street, Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94102
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Phone: 415-447-3904 

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