Bottom: Land for Learning March up Broad St on April 19, 2000. Land for Learning was a Citywide movement to reserve land for desperately needed schools. Joe Della Fave (ICC Executive Director) in black coat. Manuel Lavin right. 

Marches against the garbage incinerator.

Marchers for ICATW against the garbage incinerator, in the Portugal Day Parade summer 1990.

Lois Gibbs speaking at an ICATW meeting. The pictures show a meeting at Wolff Church, a cake, and the audience listening. Lois Gibbs is the woman who fought for clean up of toxic waste in Love Canal.

Marching Against the World’s Largest Sludge Incinerator, October 3, 1989.

ICATW was joined by veterans for marches against the garbage incinerator, due to the dioxin which incinerators produce, and the serious negative health effects on the people of Vietnam, on the soldiers fighting, and on the workers.

In spring of 1989, residents learned about the  Passaic Valley Sewage Commission’s plan to build the world’s largest sludge incinerator in Ironbound. ICATW was joined by many residents of Ironbound and Essex County in fighting this proposal.  A number of protests were held, and people attended and spoke at PVSC commissioners meetings. In fall of 1989, a protest was held in conjunction with Greenpeace, the international environmental justice organization. Greenpeace brought 2 dump trucks full of clean sludge and dumped it onto land outside PVSC’s gate. Then ICATW members and residents planted flowers in the clean sludge, to demonstrate the beneficial ways to use composted sludge (rather than burned sludge). Arnold Cohen from ICATW and a number of residents who planted flowers were arrested. (They were released at day’s end, and later the charges against them were dropped). The Greenpeace boat was also docked in Newark Bay during this time, and some residents took a tour of the boat. This incinerator was stopped by ICATW’s actions.

Attendees at one of ICATW Dinner Dance Fund Raisers. ICATW held Dinner Dances, and Raffles, and Auctions to raise money to help pay legal fees, and other costs.