Continued Shingle Mountain Coverage
In partnership with Green Source DFW
Southern Sector Rising, an environmental justice organization, leads activists in what the group calls a “community designation of Shingle Mountain as a public health hazard and emergency” along South Central Expressway in Dallas Wednesday September 30, 2020. (Deep Indigo Collective for Green Source DFW)
Deep Indigo’s coverage of Shingle Mountain continued in a new partnership. Green Source DFW collaborated with the nonprofit as environmental justice activists applied pressure to the City of Dallas to prioritize the removal of the toxic waste dump.
Oct. 13, 2020: Southern Sector Rising, an environmental justice organization, gave the City of Dallas an October 1 deadline to clean up the roofing shingle dump site south of downtown. On the eve of the deadline, the group placed “warning” signs with a scull and crossbones along the perimeter of the site and wrote on their Facebook page that the “community did what government won't: Label Shingle Mountain a Public Health Hazard.” With bids submitted to the city for the clean up, the group led a demonstration to Dallas City Hall on October 12, where activists delivered fiery pleas directed at city officials and discarded roofing shingles in a city vehicle. Be sure to read the coverage by Green Source.
The images created in this collaboration reveal the extraordinary measures a community assumes to capture the attention of city leadership to correct a public health violation. We believe these images attest to the fight’s intensity. As the people present compel the city to action as the dump site continues to harm residents after nearly three years. Please review the images below, and be sure ask us know how Deep Indigo can be your newsroom’s partner in covering similar topics in your community.
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Demonstrators walk across Young Street toward Dallas City Hall as activists call attention to Shingle Mountain by disposing of roofing shingles in front of Dallas City Hall on Monday October 12, 2020. (Deep Indigo Collective for Green Source DFW)
Rev. Stacey Brown speaks to activists calling attention to Shingle Mountain by disposing of roofing shingles in front of Dallas City Hall on Monday October 12, 2020. (Deep Indigo Collective for Green Source DFW)
A sign template lays on the ground as Southern Sector Rising leads activists in what the group considers a “community designation of Shingle Mountain as a public health hazard and emergency” along South Central Expressway in Dallas Wednesday September 30, 2020. (Deep Indigo Collective for Green Source DFW)
