We asked activists from Communities for a Better Environment and All Power Books to tell us about how they balance the commitments they make to the city with the ones they make to themselves.
This story is part of Image issue 7, “Survival,” a collective vision for the L.A. of our dreams.Radical change happens in big and small acts. No one knows this better than activists and organizers in Los Angeles, who in the face of issues like climate change, environmental racism, homelessness and police brutality manage to show up for their city first and foremost by showing up for themselves.
They thought the health problems so common in their homes — bloody noses, asthma, cancer, migraines — were normal. It wasn’t until they joined Communities for a Better Environment and learned that their neighborhood had the highest concentration of refineries and oil extraction in L.A. — resulting in an environment that residents have described for decades as toxic — that they started to understand. “We are at ground zero,” Hernandez says.
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