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marybourg

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Wed Jun-10-09 11:10 PM
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Another tragic loss:

Luke Cole, Court Advocate for Minorities, Dies at 46
! 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

read about this remarkable man: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11cole.html?hpw

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create.peace

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Wed Jun-10-09 11:25 PM
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1. A real tragedy, we need more such as he was. nt

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