Anonymous, "California Environmental Justice Alliance", contributed by James Adams, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 31 January 2023, accessed 29 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/california-environmental-justice-alliance
Critical Commentary
From the website:
"We are parents, youth, aunties, uncles, and grandparents. Our elders and ancestors migrated to California looking for refuge from Jim Crow laws, U.S wars, and so that future generations might have a brighter future. Our families made home in places like Richmond, Wilmington, Bakersfield, Ventura, and Fresno. We built community with people who spoke different languages, but shared similar histories.
But over the past 100 years, fossil fuel executives turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, land and bodies. They set up giant oil refineries, dirty gas-fired power plants, and drill sites next to our homes and schools. Oil and gas lobbyists bought off politicians and rewrote our state’s climate policies to pad their profits. We saw more and more of our loved ones get sick with asthma, heart disease, and cancer."