Full Text of HR0357 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto, having served the | 3 | | community of Little Village, the City of
Chicago, and the State | 4 | | of Illinois, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for | 5 | | North America on
April 15, 2013; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, The Goldman Environmental Prize, established in | 7 | | 1989, is an honor given annually to
grassroots activists around | 8 | | the world who demonstrate courage and commitment to protect the | 9 | | natural
environment; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto is the first Illinois | 11 | | recipient of the Global Environmental Prize in the history of | 12 | | the award; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto worked for over a decade | 14 | | to retire the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants and | 15 | | bring environmental justice to her community; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto, a life-long resident of | 17 | | the southwest side of Chicago, began her community activism | 18 | | when her son Anthony had his first asthma attack; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto served as a community | 20 | | organizer for the Little Village Environmental Justice |
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| 1 | | Organization, educating her fellow community members about the | 2 | | health and pollution concerns of Little Village; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Proving herself as a leader, Kimberly | 4 | | Wasserman-Nieto was appointed executive director of the Little | 5 | | Village Environmental Justice Organization in 2004; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto, the Little Village | 7 | | Environmental Justice Organization, and the Chicago Clean | 8 | | Power Coalition were able to build support in their community | 9 | | and across Chicago for the city to take action on coal-fired | 10 | | power plants; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, With additional leadership from Chicago Mayor | 12 | | Rahm Emanuel, the coal-fired plants were retired in September | 13 | | 2012; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto continues her work to | 15 | | strengthen and improve the health of her community; therefore, | 16 | | be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we recognize and congratulate Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto for | 20 | | winning the Goldman Environmental Prize, and for her dedicated | 21 | | service to the residents of Little Village, the City of |
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| 1 | | Chicago, and the State of Illinois; and be it further
| 2 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 | | presented to Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto as an expression of our | 4 | | esteem and respect.
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