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Vietnam veteran, Clarence Weems, 62, monitors the street from the second floor of a building he bought years ago in a neighborhood off Oakwood Blvd. in southwest Detroit. The area is totally surrounded by heavy industrial sites. Weems says the area has calmed down a couple years ago after a group of residents banded together and kicked prostitutes out of Oakwood Blvd. They also helped police to crack down on drug dealers in the area but not before the crack house next door to him was shot up several times by competing drug dealers. Through the ordeal he stayed inside peeking through the door and clutching his guy in his hand. Story is about the 48217 zip code, the most polluted zip code in Michigan and the efforts by people in it to get attention for their complaints about industrial pollution and environmental justice, which have largely been ignored. Detroit, MI. Monday, June 7, 2010. MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP

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Detroit, Cursed and Blessed
Vietnam veteran, Clarence Weems, 62, monitors the street from the second floor of a building he bought years ago in a neighborhood off Oakwood Blvd. in southwest Detroit. The area is totally surrounded by heavy industrial sites. Weems says the area has calmed down a couple years ago after a group of residents banded together and kicked prostitutes out of Oakwood Blvd. They also helped police to crack down on drug dealers in the area but not before the crack house next door to him was shot up several times by competing drug dealers. Through the ordeal he stayed inside peeking through the door and clutching his guy in his hand. Story is about the 48217 zip code, the most polluted zip code in Michigan and the efforts by people in it to get attention for their complaints about industrial pollution and environmental justice, which have largely been ignored. Detroit, MI. Monday, June 7, 2010. MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP