17 for Peace and Justice

17 for Peace and Justice was established in 2015 to expand the environmental justice movement on the College Park campus and throughout the DC-Maryland-Virginia region. 17fpj organizes activities to promote awareness and direct action on EJ issues. Our members seek to empower students and other stakeholders and build community capacity to address social, economic, and political injustice and related environmental and health inequities by using the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice established at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC as the overarching framework.

In addition to general body meetings--where local environmental justice issues and concerns are discussed and acted upon--17fpj regularly hosts events to spotlight national EJ issues. We have recently hosted film screenings and discussion panels on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, the Flint Michigan Water Crisis, and more. 

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