25 community members and organizers entered Mayor Jacob Frey’s office, June 6, to demand that the city stop stifling the East Phillips neighborhood’s efforts to build a community-owned sustainable urban farm on the site of an unused Roofing Depot plant in their neighborhood. The coalition was led by the Climate Justice Committee and the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI).
The site, which has decades’ worth of toxic arsenic waste in its soil and structures, is slated to be demolished by the city to accommodate more public works facilities. This would throw all of these toxins into the air of a neighborhood that already has some of the worst air quality in Minnesota.
East Phillips is also one of the most Black, brown, indigenous, immigrant and working-class areas in Minneapolis. Speaking for the CJC outside of Frey’s office, local organizer Rob Hendrickson brought up the unfairness and environmental racism of the city’s continued stonewalling of the EPNI’s urban farm.
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