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Luke Cole: Early Leader of Environmental Justice Movement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Luke Cole, Court Advocate for Minorities, Dies at 46 By DENNIS HEVESI Published: June 10, 2009 Luke Cole, an early leader of the environmental justice movement, which holds that many minority neighborhoods have become toxic dumping grounds because their residents are poor and powerless, died Saturday in Uganda. He was 46 and lived in San Francisco. Mr. Cole was killed in a head-on traffic accident when a truck veered across the road, his father, Herbert Cole, said. His wife, Nancy Shelby, was seriously injured. The couple was on vacation. As executive director of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, an organization based in San Francisco that he founded in 1989 with Ralph Abascal, Mr. Cole played a key role in several significant environmental law cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).