Saturday, September 30
Wilmington, San Pedro, Lennox, Del Amo, South LA, California
Organizers/Sponsors:
PSR-LA
psrol.org
Martha Dina Arguello
213-689-9170
LA EJ Network
California Environmental Rights Alliance
Del Amo Action Committee
Coalition for a Safe Environment
LAX Coalition for Environmental, Economic, and Educational Justice
Society for Positive Action
Events
- Tour of the Port Cities of Wilmington and San Pedro. Stop at Port of LA, and at Conoco Phillips refinery
- Del Amo, CA, Superfund sites
- Lennox, CA, to highlight LA International Airport community benefits agreement
- Community dialogue with local health officials, staff, and management of environmental agencies, meeting with elected officials to discuss Health Disparities, Cumulative Impacts, Precautionary Principle.
Main issues/sites
- Highlighting various local environmental justice victories and the creative methods used to achieve those victories
- The growing pollution from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach local efforts by impacted communities calling for reducing the health and environmental impact of the goods movement industry. The tour will highlight community efforts to reduce emissions from ships, trains, trucks, and yard equipment at ports, rail yards, distribution centers, and on heavily traveled freeways.
- Environmental and economic justice and goods movement, climate change
- Refineries
- Air quality and health accesses to health care
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