July 20, 2024Highlights from Coming Clean and EJHA’s 2024 General Strategy Meeting
Over 45 Coming Clean and EJHA member organizations attended Coming Clean and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform's General Strategy Meeting, held in Los Angeles from July 16-18 2024. The meeting centered on strategies to advance the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals, our shared platform endorsed by over 125 organizations.
The meeting was locally co-hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles. Martha Dina Argüello shared lessons from the successful grassroots statewide campaign to ban oil and gas drilling where people live, work and play.
Transforming the chemical industry so that it no longer harms people and planetary ecosystems will take imaginative thinking. We focused on the need to center our strategies on deeply principled collaboration and solidarity with the most impacted communities, and developed ideas for benchmarks to gauge our progress and keep us on track.
We discussed: How do we maintain our alignment as two networks of such diverse organizations, stay accountable to our values, and be most responsive to the needs of members at the fenceline of chemical harms?
Our collaborative teams shared their draft federal policy priorities for advancing the Louisville Charter over the next three years, and invited feedback on poster presentations.
Movement Builder awards were given to Vi Waghiyi, Richard Moore, Tianna Shaw-Wakeman, Martha Dina Argüello, Susana Almanza, Nalleli Hidalgo, Yudith Nieto and Jeannie Economos for building an inter-generational, multi-racial movement aligned with the mission and goals of our networks.