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! ! Recent news !! August 2009: Senator Gillibrand Announces Asthma Plan; Critics Respond http://www.thealbanyproject.com/diary/6889/gillibrand-unveils-plan-to-address-asthma-problem-in-new-york

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Information form New York State health department []

Activist Groups Working on Asthma in NYS: WE ACT for Environmental Justice [|http://www.weact.org/]

Book: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, by Julie Sze (2006) [|http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11028]

Book: Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice, by Jason Corburn (2005) See especially section on the asthma epidemic in the Latino community []

Asthma Free School Zone (AFSZ) []

AsthmaMoms: Families Helping Families Manage Asthma []

VISUALIZATIONS: WE ACT's Geographic Information System (GIS) Maps [] WE ACT has produced 31 GIS maps designed to assist in further accomplishing their goal to bring about a "green and clean" Northern Manhattan. The maps chronicle such elements as polluting facilities and childhood asthma hospitalizations, the diesel bus pollution corellation, waterfront property ownership and existing marine waste transfer and handling facilities.