Pioneer activist for environmental justice in Silicon Valley, 1967-2000 : oral history transcript / 2003 PDF
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BANG MSS 2004/157 c BANG UniversityofCalifornia Berkeley Regional Oral History Office University ofCalifornia The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Environmental Justice and Grassroots Environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area Ted Smith PIONEERACTIVIST FORENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE EN SILICON VALLEY, 1967-2000 With an Introduction by Luke W. Cole Interviews Conducted by Carl Wilmsen in 2000 Copyright 2003 by The Regents ofthe University ofCalifornia Since 1954the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to majorevents inthedevelopmentofnorthernCalifornia,the West, andthenation. Oralhistory is amethod ofcollecting historical informationthroughtape-recorded interviews between a narratorwith firsthand knowledge ofhistorically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preservingsubstantiveadditionstothehistoricalrecord. Thetaperecordingistranscribed, lightly editedfor continuity and clarity, and reviewed bythe interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The BancroftLibrary atthe University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and in otherresearch collections forscholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is notintendedto presentthefinal, verified, orcompletenarrativeofevents. Itisaspoken account,offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses ofthis manuscriptarecoveredby alegal agreementbetween TheRegents ofthe University ofCalifornia and Ted Smith dated June 19, 2003. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library ofthe University of California, Berkeley. No partofthemanuscriptmay bequoted forpublication withoutthe writtenpermission oftheDirectorofThe BancroftLibrary oftheUniversity ofCalifornia, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, Mail Code 6000, University of California,Berkeley94720-6000,andshouldinclude identificationofthespecificpassages to be quoted, anticipated use ofthe passages, and identification ofthe user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Ted Smith, Pioneer Activist for Environmental Justice in Silicon Valley, 1967-2000, an oral history conducted in 1999 by Carl Wilmsen, Regional Oral History Office, The BancroftLibrary, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 2003. Copy no. Silicon Valley Toxic s^Bbaliti on if! Ted Smith. The Environmental Justice and Grassroots Environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area Oral Histories have been funded by the FloraLamson Hewlett Fund ofThe Bancroft Library.
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