Let us send a clear and unambiguous message to the mayor and company, a “treat” from East Phillips and their supporters, there is a better alternative. Let us rally to make sure that the mayor knows that East Phillips demands….
URBAN FARM! NOT TOXIC HARM!

The city plans to demolish the abandoned RoofTop Depot building sitting on heaps of untouched arsenic, for which it has no stated remediation plan. After kicking up all of this arsenic, the city wants to build a refueling station for its heavy equipment vehicles there. East Phillips is already one of the most polluted areas in Minnesota. An estimated 12% of its residents have asthma — explicitly because of the pollution in the area, which is surrounded by heavily emitting plants & facilities on top of getting the exhaust from the traffic going down Hiawatha Ave. We can only imagine how much worse it will get with over 800 additional heavy equipment vehicles going in and out every day.

The community of East Phillips wants to take things into its own hands, build an urban farm — this would include rehabilitating the building, which does not need to be torn down in a costly and ecologically destructive move. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute, the Climate Justice Committee, and many other community groups are coming together to fight this blatant environmental racism.

URBAN FARM! NOT TOXIC HARM!