Please Join us for the Kettleman City EJ Storytelling on August 13th!
Presenters will be Maricela Mares Alatorre and Miguel Alatorre (El Pueblo and Greenaction), and Bradley Angel, Executive Director of Greenaction.
Miguel Alatorre is a Community Organizer and Policy advocate for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. Miguel is a third generation environmental justice activist who has been involved since he was a child in numerous battles against pollution and injustice in the San Joaquin Valley farmworker town of Kettleman City, California. Miguel helped found two Kettleman City youth groups KPOP, (Kids Protecting our Planet) and YPOP (Youth-Protecting our Planet) and he is co-coordinator of Greenaction’s Kettleman City Youth Environmental Justice Leadership Academy program.
Maricela Mares Alatorre is Coordinator of El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia/People for Clean Air and Water of Kettleman City, and a Community Organizer/Policy Advocate for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice.
Miguel and Maricela are co-coordinators of Greenaction’s many campaigns and projects in Kettleman City, including our AB 617 Community Air Monitoring Project, our diesel truck emissions reduction efforts, stop pesticide drift from agricultural fields near homes, and oppose new permits for the infamous Chemical Waste Management Kettleman Hills hazardous waste and PCB landfill – the largest such facility in the western US.
Bradley Angel is Executive Director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona – including from Kettleman City - to form Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. Bradley has worked with Kettleman City residents and El Pueblo since 1988.
Stories from the frontlines by El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia/People for Clean Air and Water of Kettleman City, and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
Date: August 13, 2020,
Time: 10 am-noon
Register (not required, but allows for your calendaring ease)
Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/92122813057?pwd=ZXVtbFJxak9ScktUSUpidWFOUDJMdz09
Password: 835394
The small town of Kettleman City in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley has been on the frontlines of struggles for environmental health and justice for over 32 years.
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El Pueblo para El Aire y Agua Limpia |
Kettleman City was one of the birthplaces of the environmental justice movement, and the epic struggles of the community have inspired people far and wide. Tune in to hear stories told by members of El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia/People for Clean Air and Water, of Kettleman City, and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, about the decades of campaigns and victories for health and justice.
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| This struggle involved the whole community and gained active solidarity from communities and groups across the US and Mexico |
Hear about the historic David versus Goliath struggle that began in 1988 that defeated Chemical Waste Management’s proposed hazardous waste incinerator, the ongoing fights against dumping at the giant Kettleman Hills hazardous waste and PCB landfill, the large birth defect and infant mortality cluster, precedent-setting Title VI Civil Rights Settlement, youth environmental justice leadership programs, diesel idling and pesticide drift campaigns, the recent victory that made clean water a reality, and a new COVID-19 relief program.
Pictures from the early Kettleman City Struggle that defeated plans to build the state's first hazardous waste incinerator in Kettleman City
