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Tonight's Guest: Jill Lindsey Harrison (Part 2) Jill Lindsey Harrison describes her book, Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice, and 2014 article,"Neoliberal environmental justice: mainstream ideas of justice in political conflict over agricultural pesticdes in the United States". Jill's subject tonight is the environmental justice activists - farmworkers, poor residents of towns repeatedly affected by pesticide drift, and others who see the problem as structural and racial oppression. Many, unlike traditional eenvironmentalists, lack the choice to buy organic, move away, find other work, or even, if in the country illegally, protest accidents. Jill says observing their work to increase legislative and regulatory protection was the heartening part of her research and gives examples of what this activism entails.