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Article Evaluation
Environmental racism <- article of choice

Everything in this article is relevant to Environmental racism, whether that be a definition of what that means, historical lineage of the topic, and/or examples of how Environmental racism actually manifests (using locations and events). The article uses some loaded language but always supports claims with evidence/citation/or statistics. The article simply states facts and does not draw its own conclusions-- this is a proper neutral stance, which might be hard to do, considering the person who probably wrote this article feels passionately about the effects of environmental racism. Also, many different viewpoints are represented very well, since the author(s) cover both U.S. environmental racism and International environmental racism, and do so by presenting several distinct cases for each. They also provide information from studies, responses to environmental racism, and legislation. I checked a few of their citations and the facts linked with the citations I checked did lead to articles which provided support for the statements made. The three articles I checked all seemed to be secondary scholarly sources, which is what we would like to see when gathering resources for Wikipedia articles. I think one thing they could improve upon is the organization of the information. The headings get a bit confusing after the "International" heading. The ones that follow are "Responses", "Studies", "Legislation", and "Cost-benefit analysis and policy implications." I think that the article flows well in terms of organization up until this point. I think maybe some of these sections could be merged together such as the last two headings. The article also might benefit from more pictures to really show what damage the author(s) are discussing.

This article is very related to what we are talking about it class, because it is arguably the most important player in environmental injustice. EJ is affected by all parts of intersectionality, but especially race. It is important to have a strong background in what exactly environmental racism is, who it affects, what it looks like, how it happens (systematically), and the consequences/effects of it. This is central to our discussions in class.

Working Bibliography
El Puente de Williamsburg (2018). The City of New York. Retrieved from https://www.nycservice.org/organizations/1383

Elizalde, E. (2017, December 14). NYC groups are helping to bring Puerto Rico out of the dark. New York Daily News. Retrieved from http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/nyc-groups-helping-bring-puerto-rico-dark-article-1.3696758

Ledogar, R. J., Acosta, L. G., & Penchaszadeh, A. (1999). Building international public health vision through local community research: the El Puente-CIET partnership. American Journal of Public Health,89(12) : pp. 1795-1797. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.89.12.1795

Newberger, J. (1999). El Puente: Building a bridge from the arts to community. Spark Action. Retrieved from http://sparkaction.org/content/el-puente-building-bridge-arts-community

Rushing, K. (2017, December 7). Groups provide a solar energy stopgap for Puerto Ricans living without power. EarthJustice. Retrieved from https://earthjustice.org/blog/2017-december/el-puente-solar-lanterns

United States, El Puente: Youth involvement in community health and environment (2018). CIETinternational. Retrieved from http://www.ciet.org/en/project/united-states-the-ciet-el-puente-partnership-1995-2003/united-states-el-puente-youth-involvement-in-community-health-and-environment-1996-98/

Editing a Wikipedia Page
Virology <--Wiki page of choice

Treatment that exists for HIV includes a multitude of different drugs collectively termed Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART). HAART attacks many different aspects of the HIV virus, effectively reducing its effects below the limit of detection. However, when the administration of HAART is discontinued, HIV will bounce back. This is because HAART does not attack latently infected HIV cells, which can reactivate.