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Oral History and Environmental Justice

Written by Sady on April 29th, 2009
SF to LA on I-5

LA to SF on I-5

Tonight in BHS’s oral history seminar we discussed the many uses of oral histories beyond the archive: radio, museums, performance…  One inspiring example is Invisible-5, a self-guided audio tour along Interstate 5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco.  Check out the Superfund sites along the route.

Speaking of Superfund sites, the Newtown Creek Health & Harm Narratives Project is collecting community stories of illness and environmental pollution in Greenpoint, East Williamsburg, and Maspeth.  If you would like to be interviewed, even anonymously, you can contact them newtowncreekstudy [at] gmail.com or 718.577.1359.

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North Brooklyn Story Project

Written by Sady on March 11th, 2009

Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG), a community organization that has been serving North Brooklyn since 1994, is starting a project called the North Brooklyn Story Project and their first meeting is tonight at 7pm at 101 Kent Avenue at North 8th Street in Williamsburg.

This is such a wonderful idea, it’s an oral historian’s fantasy that everyone everywhere will start recording everybody else everywhere!  If you live in North Brooklyn, get involved, and if you live in another part of Brooklyn think about starting your own local Story Project.  And if you would like to learn more about archiving oral history recordings and other aspects of collecting community histories, contact us here at BHS.

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Pollution Testimonies

Written by Sady on October 6th, 2008

I’ve lived in Greenpoint for three years now, I get most of my food from an organic farm and I’m generally health conscious all around – yet somehow I manage to conspicuously Not Worry about living above the largest oil spill on the planet which still oozes on the underground water table at Newtown Creek.

A plume of oil – 17 million gallons, bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska – was discovered in 1978 and while cleanup began in 1990, it’s been slow and underfunded and not much has improved.

“Are you worried about health problems caused by the pollution in your neighborhood?”

A community group in Brooklyn called the Newtown Creek Alliance is documenting the public health concerns of people living in communities along Newtown Creek (Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Maspeth, Queens).

For more information email: newtowncreekstudy@gmail.com

Or attend an information session:

Saturday, October 18th at 3pm
Greenpoint Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 107 Norman Ave @ Leonard

Monday, October 27th at 6pm
Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 81 Devoe Street @ Leonard

photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (1989)

photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (1989)

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