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Title: "Blind Justice"
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1980, 1989
Summary: Greenpeace and ICATW jointly wrote and produced a play called "Blind Justice", which called attention to the number of laws which had to be broken to build the garbage burner in Ironbound. The play was presented in the neighborhood and on the steps of the Essex County Courthouse.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Anti-Incinerator Song
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 2002
Summary: Song lyrics written by Ray Korona who wrote an anti-incienrator song about Ironbound.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Dioxin Expert Speaks
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1988-09-13
Summary: Press Release announcing that Dr. Paul Connett will speak about the failure of garbage incineration around the world. ICATW also brought in other speakers, such as Dr. Barry Commoner, and Lois Gibbs from the fight at Love Canal, to help the community learn and get energized.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , ,

Title: Explosion At Garbage Incinerator
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1999-02
Summary: Letter to the DEP asking for an investigation into the fire at the garbage incinerator on Dec. 17, 1998 at which 30 firemen had to go to the hospital. A load of out-of-state garbage which was "untagged" was flooded with water, and it exploded.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Fundraiser Dinner Dance
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1982-10-27
Summary: Flier for a Fundraiser Dinner Dance to benefit the fight against the garbage incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , ,

Title: ICCs Research About Incinerators
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1985-04-10
Summary: Report prepared by Robert Cartwright (Ironbound Community Corporation staff) for the Ironbound Committee Against Toxic Waste. This comoprehensive report is 55 pages long with 8 pages of references, and helped community members and ICATW staff to frame their arguments against the garbage incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , ,

Title: MEM Letter Supporting Ecumenical Church Organizing About Toxic Waste
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1982-03-16
Summary: A letter from Director of Metropolitan Ecumenical Ministry, Frank Gibson Jr., asking Metropolitan Ecumenical Ministry member churches to support residents of Ironbound in their fight against the garbage incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , ,

Title: No Expansion of Incinerator
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1995
Summary: Speakers list for the Rally against expansion of the incinerator
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Outreach to East Side High School
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1980, 1989
Summary: Flier for East Side High School Students, special hearing at 3:30 for young people, to learn bout and oppose the incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Passaic Valley Sewer Commission
Creator(s): Henderson, D. J. (Dorland J.), 1898-1996
Date Created: 1989-04-08
Summary: A letter to the editor of the Star Ledger regarding the Passaic Valley Sewer Commission's proposed sludge incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators,
In Collection(s): D. J. Henderson Papers, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Passaic Valley Sewer Commission
Creator(s): Henderson, D. J. (Dorland J.), 1898-1996
Date Created: 1990-11-03
Summary: A letter to the editor of the Star Ledger regarding the Passaic Valley Sewer Commission's proposed sludge incinerator.
Subjects: Incinerators,
In Collection(s): D. J. Henderson Papers, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Photo: March Against The Incinerator
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1984
Summary: Another picture of Ferry St. March against the construction of a garbage incinerator in Ironbound. Garbage incinerators emit dioxin, and the country's highest concentrations of dioxin had been discovered in Ironbound in 1983. Note that the County Executive was Peter Sahapiro at this time.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Photo: March Against The Incinerator
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1984
Summary: March up Ferry St. to protest construction of a large garbage incinerator in Ironbound. ICATW (Ironbound Committee against Toxic Waste) sponsored several of these marches. Residents understood that garbage burners give off dioxin, and the nation's highest levels of dioxin had just been discovered in Ironbound already.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Photos: A play against the Garbage Burner
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1984
Summary: The photographs are of a play which was written by Ironbound Committee Against Toxic Waste (ICATW) and performed on the steps of the Essex County Courthouse, in order to dramatize a number of laws that would be broken if the garbage incinerator was to be built in Ironbound. ICATW's advocacy helped other counties defeat garbage incinerators, and ICC continues to monitor the garbage incinerator today.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , , , , ,

Title: Protest March to City Hall
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Summary: Flier for a protest march to City Hall mentions the world's largest sludge incinerator which was to be built by the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission. Greenpeace and ICATW teamed up for a protest at which some arrests were made for planting flowers! The sludge incinerator was stopped.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , , , ,

Title: Rally Against Incinerator Expansion
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1995
Summary: Flier announcing Rally & March against the expansion of the garbage incierator to take thousands more pounds of garbage from New York City.
Subjects: Incinerators, , , , , ,
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

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