ICYMI: Residents Organize To Oppose Management Of Local Landfill

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in the Patchogue Patch:

By: Jacqueline Sweet

NORTH BELLPORT, NY — The Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group is a new community organization that grew out of some of Long Island's Black Lives Matters activism this past spring. The group, formed in June, has coalesced around a longstanding issue: the Brookhaven landfill and how the Town of Brookhaven is handling waste issues.

Monique Fitzgerald is a North Bellport resident who is involved in the group and told Patch how the issue of the location and management of landfill is not only of environmental concern but also one of racial justice for the activists.

"We decided it wasn't enough just to protest. We needed issue-based politics and to look at how black people are treated here, close to home."

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