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Fire Drill Fridays Jane on the Road: Port Arthur, Texas
In this episode of Fire Drill Fridays, Jane Fonda is on the ground in Port Arthur, Texas, a frontline in the continued fight against environmental racism and the climate crisis. Jane and John Beard, Jr., Founder and CEO of Port Arthur Community Action Network, will get an on-the-ground look at oil wells, refineries, and petrochemical plants that are inundating the community with industrial pollution.
In this episode of Fire Drill Fridays, Jane Fonda is on the ground in Port Arthur, Texas, at the forefront of the ongoing fight against environmental racism and the climate crisis. Jane and John Beard, Jr., founders and CEOs of the Port Arthur Community Action Network, will take an on-site look at oil wells, refineries and petrochemical plants that are flooding the community with industrial pollution. They will discuss what is at stake and the ongoing legacy of the strong resistance, including the current struggle to halt new and expanding crude oil export infrastructure. It is critical that we support and fight alongside frontline communities like Port Arthur in our campaign for real climate justice. Be sure to tune in to find out how.
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John Beard, Jr. is the Founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network.
After working in the oil industry for 38 years, Beard turned to holding the industry accountable and became a community attorney in his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.
He founded the Port Arthur Community Action Network ("PACAN") to fight for health and safety precautions in an area teeming with refineries, export terminals, petrochemical plants... and cancer.
Over the past year, Beard has emerged as a leader in environmental justice on a national and global scale.
He attended the United Nations COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland; a recipient of the 2021 Rose Bratz Award from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Community Sentinel Award from Halt the Harm Network.
He was one of the frontline leaders of the historic People Vs. Fossil Fuel Action Week in Washington, keynote speaker at Seventh Generation's 2022 corporate convention, speaker on petrochemical diffusion at Bennington College, Vermont, and met with key members of Congress at the recent "No More Sacrifice Zones: STOP MVP!" rally in Washington that led to the successful removal of Manchin's approval provisions from the proposed budget.
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