Environmental Justice and Workers During a Pandemic

In the third installment of the IEC Lunch & Learn Series, we were joined by Theresa Yoon from SEIU Local 1 to discuss Environmental Justice and Workers During a Pandemic.

IEC is proud to make these sessions open to the public as we all do our part to prevent the spread of COV-19 by maintaining social distancing. If you would like support our work, please consider joining IEC as a member today!

Below, please find a list of resources about ways you can help vulnerable communities and workers during this crisis:

City of Chicago Rental Assistance Program

Call for an urgent Moratorium on Electricity and Water Shutoffs

Oppose Oil and Gas Bailouts

Protect our democracy and elections

Demand suspension of major policy and regulation changes, oil and gas lease sales, and comment periods

US Physicians/Healthcare Workers For Personal Protective Equipment in COVID-19 Pandemic

Food Works Need Protections

Chicago Community Bond Fund Open Letter to Cook County Regarding COVID-19 and Cook County Jail: Protect Public Health through Decarceration

Illinois Higher Education in Prison: An immediate review of the prison and jail population in Illinois for the purpose to identify those elderly and infirm individuals who are at greatest risk of dying from COVID 19, and releasing them as a matter of urgency

Illinois Prison Project and Restore Justice Illinois identified 241 people who are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus in prison based on their age and less than 3 years left