Dr. Nicole Fabricant

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124 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Working People · Toxic Avengers: America's poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

How do we can connect with railroad workers?

Because we wanted sort of the movement to be at the intersection of labor and these concerns about respiratory health.

And that's what brought me to Railroad Workers United, because CSX, many of their workers.

Were subcontracted out.

Many did not want to organize with us.

There were questions of, you know, fissures between sort of environmental justice taking jobs away from uh workers.

And so Railroad Workers United understood right away the questions they were asking, the kinds of safety concerns aligned with the vision we had of a worker-centered.

Kind of just transition away from coal.

And that is what led me to East Palestine was Railroad Workers United, actually, and the work we were doing together.

Jeff has come down multiple occasions to Curtis Bay to provide assistance, to talk to folks, to explain the ins and outs of the rail industry, how it works, precision scheduled railroading.

I didn't understand it before meeting Jeff.

And now really

Envisioning the corporatization, the cutbacks, the ways in which that has compromised the safety of workers is the very same thing compromising the safety of trackside communities.

And so aligning with some of these laborers, particularly Railroad Workers United, was really essential to the movement.

And Jeff actually and others got us.

connected to uh East Palestine.

And the first time we went there, I took a whole bunch of Curtis Bay organizers because it's part of like this building solidarity and having opportunities to share stories, to share struggles across regions.

Earlier Jamie talked about like our own playbook, writing our own playbook, and I think that's so important because oftentimes it's the playbook of the corporation that

We're all following, right?

And um, when we went arrived in East Palestine, I had youth organizers that were basically blown away.

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