http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/transportation_policy+breath_at_your_own_risk+we-act PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17087 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17087 <div align="left"><br />West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT) is a non-profit, community-based, environmental justice organization dedicated to building community power to fight environmental racism and improve environmental health, protection and policy in communities of color.</div><p>WE ACT accomplishes its mission through community organizing, education and training, advocacy and research, and public policy development.</p><p>Since 1988, WE ACT has worked with citizen groups, youth, community residents, environmentalists, local/state/federal governments, and educational &amp; medical institutions.<br />WE ACT, a vigorous advocate for and a significant monitor of the Northern Manhattan environment, is a non-profit, incorporated, community-based organization that was staffed in October 1994. WE ACT's mission is to inform, educate, train and mobilize the predominately African-American and Latino residents of Northern Manhattan on issues that impact their quality of life -- air, water and indoor pollution, toxins, land use and open space, waterfront development and usage, sanitation, transportation, historic preservation, regulatory enforcement, and citizen participation in public policy making.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><div align="left"><img width="170" height="274" border="0" alt=" " src="http://www.weact.org/programs/_images/diesel_fumes_brochure.jpg" /></div><div align="left">&nbsp;</div>