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Greening the ghetto - Majora Carter

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In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.

In 1998, at the time Carter and others were fighting a huge waste treatment plant planned for the South Bronx, the community was already handling how much of New York City's commercial waste?

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