
Refusing Death
The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America''s goods transit, pollution is literally killing the residents. In response, a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, pre...
The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America''s goods transit, pollution is literally killing the residents. In response, a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, pre...