Greg: “We’re from Ben Franklin High School and we are coming around to give an update on an issue we’ve been working on. The issue is specifically the plan to build the trash burning incinerator, less than a mile away....do you know about it?” Man: “I can not stop right now, I’m busy” Greg: “Ok, I understand that. Thanks for your time. Would you like us to leave one of the papers at the door?” Man: “No” Greg: “Ok, take care...” Breathing clean air is a human right. That right is being disrespected by the potential of this project. The nation’s largest trash burning incinerator would be built on the site of a former pesticide factory. In a place where a community use to be and people use to live. And so it represents sort of a continuation of environmental injustice in curtis bay. Boy: I want us to continue to grow, continue to like become leaders and continue to get the community actively involved in decision making. Not have people makes decisions and let that stand by. If the decision is going to harm a lot of people, I want us to know when to get the community to step up and fight. Greg: Everyone in the group has a busy life and real challenges. Whether thats homelessness, whether thats going to college and at the same time try to lead a movement, or whether thats you know lack of access to the basics. And so to have a stable group over a period of time is a real challenge and its not easy. So the group functions as a safe space for them to come together and share that. TEXT CARD: Students from Benjamin Franklin High School have been fighting the development of an incinerator in their community for nearly three years. students started doing presentations, and really organizing around the city. Asking questions, raising the issue, and really that culminated in taking that issue directly at a city school board meeting. Destiny: “We are here today to say that we all deserve and have a right to fair development. Development that puts our needs first. We are here today.....” We invited them out to the community just to see Curtis Bay for themselves bc its one thing to hear about a community that is surrounded by an industrial area or surrounded by pollution but its another thing to actually see it. TEXT CARD : Waste-to-energy incinerators like the proposed “Energy Answers” plant are common in European cities. Supporters say they are a source of clean energy. TEXT CARD: Curtis Bay is already home to several industrial sites. Greg: Diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer, lower respiratory disease, are all staggeringly high rates here in the community. Curtis Bay has one of the highest toxic air emissions in the entire country. Woman 1: An incinerator?! For the love of God..... This is bad. When we found out that the air quality is worse than anywhere else in Md we looked at each other, ‘what did we get ourselves into?’ I have no more thousands of dollars to go move no where. And my daughter just had triplets! You’re not going to tell them to come visit their grand mom here. Go outside...they told me, this is the worst time to go outside and play, when the sun is up! Woman 2: Well I don’t think its fair to have to grow up with the pollution it already is and then think we are going to get more. We already have a medical incinerator, we have the coal piers, we have several chemical plants, we have the exhaust fumes from the truck traffic in this area and we also have rats! TEXT CARD: Energy Answers pledged to bring jobs, recreation facilities, and other financial benefits to Curtis Bay with the project. TEXT CARD: The incinerator is scheduled to open in 2017. Girl: I mean its one thing to say, ‘that’s a good cause’ and everything like that but to really come out and join us and become a part of it is really what I hope for bc if we can stop this we can stop anything. Not just saying it but actually doing it.