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The sacrifice zone / director, Julie Winokur.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community activists--New Jersey--Newark.
- Community activists.
- Factory and trade waste--New Jersey--Newark.
- Factory and trade waste.
- Environmental justice--New Jersey--Newark.
- Environmental justice.
- Pollution--Physiological effect--New Jersey--Newark.
- Pollution.
- Newark (N.J.)--Environmental conditions--21st century.
- Newark (N.J.).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Talking Eyes Media, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- If you travel down a one-mile stretch of Doremus Avenue in Newark, NJ, you pass a natural gas plant next to a sewage treatment facility next to an animal fat rendering plant next to a series of ominous looking chemical storage containers behind acres of fencing. Airplanes pass overhead every two minutes, their engines rattling windows, while a putrid smell wafts from the open pools at the sewage treatment plant. This stretch is known as Chemical Corridor, and it's located just down the road from schools and apartment buildings. It borders the Ironbound neighborhood, where Portuguese, Brazilian, Central American and African American residents are separated from toxic substances by little more than a railroad track. The Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, is one of the most toxic neighborhoods in the country. Maria Lopez-Nuñez, a Honduran-American resident there, is waging a war for environmental justice. She is part of the Ironbound Community Corporation, one of the most effective environmental justice organizations in the country. The Sacrifice Zone follows Maria as she leads a group of environmental justice fighters determined to break the cycle of poor communities of color serving as dumping grounds for our consumer society.
- Participant:
- Maria Lopez, Emily Turonis, Melissa Miles, Joe Della Fave, Ana Baptista, Nancy Zack, Troy Singleton, Nyheim Carter, Richard Sandner, Mike Van Brunt.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2020.
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 03, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1527824607
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