Waste : One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret By: Catherine Coleman Flowers [Audiobook]

Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers
Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. 

Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. 

Worsened by climate change, poor sanitation threatens to bring new public health crises; already, the tropical parasite hookworm, long eradicated in the South, is back. Yet policymakers on all levels have mostly failed to act. Flowers aims to change that. Flowers’s book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative on a world stage. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities.

General Information
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 Title:                  Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
 Author:                 Catherine Coleman  Flowers
 Read By:                Karen Chilton
 Date:                   11 / 03 / 2019
 Publisher:              Recorded Books
 Genre:                  Environmental Public Policy
File Information
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 File Type:              MP3
 Source Format:          Scribd
 Number of Chapters:     12
 Total Duration:         06:40:59
 Total Size:             183.56 mb
 Encoded At:             64 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Mono
Book Description
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"AMERICA'S DIRTY SECRET tells the story of systemic class and 
racial prejudice that has resulted in a resurgence of tropical 
diseases, like hookworm, showing up across America because of 
sewage treatment problems in rural America. The issues rural poor
 face are different than the issues of urban poor, and Flowers 
has worked to identify and to solve problems at the intersection 
of poverty, climate change, and politics. She has given testimony
 to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and
 presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty as 
well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and
 Sanitation. In 2018, she also had an opportunity to present in 
Geneva during the convening of the UN Council on Human Rights. Al
 Gore, People Magazine, and the editors at the New York Time have
 expressed interest in covering her work as an activists and the 
Royal Society of Medicine has invited her to become a member 
(despite the fact that she is not a doctor, but rather the "Erin 
Brockovich" of the water crisis in this country). Jane Fonda is a
 friend who will lend support. This is a burgeoning crisis in 
this country, which is just getting attention. Indeed, some of 
today's candidates are finally giving voice to the conditions the
 rural poor are forced to live in, with no support from the 
government- resulting in a crisis in health due to zero 
investment in infrastructure. "

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