{"product_id":"book-e5lz","title":"Waste","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe MacArthur grant-winning \"Erin Brockovich of Sewage\" tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, with a foreword by the renowned author of \u003cem\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called \"Bloody Lowndes\" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster third-world conditions, not just in Alabama but across America, in Appalachia, central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil-rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards-and not only those of poor minorities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49367951245616,"sku":"BDe5lz","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49367951311152,"sku":"ZEe5lz","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49367951278384,"sku":"ZMe5lz","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/e5lz-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782414863","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e5lz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}