New Film Centers On Newark's Fight For Environmental Justice

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Karen Yi
WNYC News | Oct 15, 2020

Crammed alongside Newark's Iro 50-thousand residents are hundreds of contaminated sites, industrial warehouses, a sewage processing facility AND an incinerator that burns trash from as far away as New York City. A new documentary screening at the Montclair Film Festival this weekend focuses on the activists fighting for a cleaner community.

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