Robert Shobe, Just Beniteau Campaign just started [ [link removed] ]a petition to Michael
Manley, CEO, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles:

Chrysler owes Detroit residents environmental health protections now!

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Corporations like Chrysler think they can put our people's lives at risk
with no pushback.

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Let's show them how wrong they are.
  

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Dear John,

I just started a petition titled "[ [link removed] ]Chrysler owes Detroit residents
environmental health protections now!"

Chrysler doesn’t care about Black people. Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)
is expanding in Detroit and has only agreed to commit $8.8 million in
“community benefits” for a plant they are receiving a whopping $420
million in public tax abatements to expand. We must be clear about what
this means. This multi-billion dollar corporation thinks it’s acceptable
to set aside less than 3% of the public funding it is receiving for the
benefit of the community, and has failed to outline a comprehensive
environmental safety plan for the majority-Black neighborhood that the
expansion will impact the most. That’s not right. Now, it is time for
Chrysler to step up and work in cooperation with the people of Detroit to
negotiate for protections that reflect the real health and environmental
risks to Black Detroiters that Chrysler’s expansion has brought with it.

[ [link removed] ]Majority Black Detroit matters. We need environmental health
protections today.

We’ve long known that pollution takes its greatest toll on the health of
Black communities, who are often left with few resources or recourse. That
has never felt clearer than in the middle of a global pandemic, as
politicians, corporations, and the healthcare system alike continue to
make decisions that mean that Black people are contracting and dying of
COVID-19 at higher rates than almost every other group in the country.
Chrysler’s leadership, which has managed to find a way to offset increased
emissions in its suburban plant, but has failed to provide a clear plan
for how it will handle the increase in emissions in a neighborhood that is
majority Black, is no exception. A national study links long-term exposure
to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality. In the U.S., Black children
suffer disproportionately from asthma, and are seven to eight times more
likely to die of asthma than white children. Communities of color face
nearly 40% more exposure to toxic air pollution than white communities.
From Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ to the recently discovered cancer cluster
in Houston’s Fifth Ward, we know why mega-companies like Chrysler feel
comfortable making decisions that place Black people in close proximity to
pollution and other environmental hazards. Chrysler is counting on
environmental racism to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. We
can’t let them.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign the petition and forward this email to make sure your
voice is heard? Add your name here.

After George Floyd was murdered, Chrysler CEO, Michael Manley, sent an
email to employees claiming that he “emphatically rejects the prejudice
and hatred” Black Americans still face in this country. But the fact is,
Chrysler bears a huge responsibility for the environmental violence, harm,
and discrimination against Black people in Detroit, and is still actively
profiting from that violence to this day. Residents closest to the plant
on Beniteau Street and others across the Eastside of the city, along with
Detroit People's Platform have worked hard to bring these critical issues
to the attention of local officials and Chrysler leadership with no
success. Now, we need your voices to make sure Chrysler knows they must
deal with the community in order to benefit from our public tax dollars.
Sign our petition today and make sure Chrysler knows they must deal with
the real Detroit if they want to keep building in our community.

[ [link removed] ]Corporations like Chrysler think they can put our people's lives at
risk with no pushback. Let's show them how wrong they are.

Thank you,

Robert Shobe, Just Beniteau Campaign

 

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