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CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT
Dos Amigos Pumping Station
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
FEEDLOT - COALINGA
The sign for the I-5 onramp in front of the Harris Ranch feedlot at Coalinga, CA
Photo: Amy Balkin
KETTLEMAN CITY LANDSAT
Photo: NASA
MARY LOU MARES
Kettleman City has two invisible sites - the underground site of one of the largest hazardous waste landfills in the west, and the former intended site of a giant hazardous waste incinerator that was never built.
In 1993, Kettleman City residents organized to defeat plans for the incinerator, in a major environmental justice victory in the San Joaquin Valley. Mares tells the story of how plans for the incinerator were defeated.
The story of the struggle for environmental justice in Kettleman City is told in the tour by Mary Lou Mares, a former resident of the predominantly Spanish-speaking, migrant-farmworker community, and member of People for Clean Air and Water.
CREDIT: Kim Stringfellow
EARLIMART
Teresa de Anda's daughter and a friend stand in the field directly across from her home in Earlimart, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
TACO TRUCK - BUTTONWILLOW
Halliburton oil field workers take lunch at a taco truck just off the I-5 in Buttonwillow, while Tim Halbur records an interview.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
CLEAN HARBORS DUMP - BUTTONWILLOW
Toxic waste dump just west of Buttonwillow. Truck traffic carrying toxic waste has historically used the road through Buttonwillow as a major route from the I-5 to the dump.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
GRAPEVINE
Diesel trucks ply the I-5 in the Grapevine, just south of Lebec, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
PROPOSITION 65 WARNING
The Proposition 65 Warning is required by law to be posted outside facilities that emit chemicals known to cause cancer in the state of California.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST LOS ANGELES
The Gutierrezes stand in front of their home in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
TREEHOUSE -BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST LOS ANGELES
This treehouse is built on a soundwall on the I-5, in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.
Photo: Amy Balkin
CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT
Dos Amigos Pumping Station
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
FEEDLOT - COALINGA
The sign for the I-5 onramp in front of the Harris Ranch feedlot at Coalinga, CA
Photo: Amy Balkin
KETTLEMAN CITY LANDSAT
Photo: NASA
MARY LOU MARES
Kettleman City has two invisible sites - the underground site of one of the largest hazardous waste landfills in the west, and the former intended site of a giant hazardous waste incinerator that was never built.
In 1993, Kettleman City residents organized to defeat plans for the incinerator, in a major environmental justice victory in the San Joaquin Valley. Mares tells the story of how plans for the incinerator were defeated.
The story of the struggle for environmental justice in Kettleman City is told in the tour by Mary Lou Mares, a former resident of the predominantly Spanish-speaking, migrant-farmworker community, and member of People for Clean Air and Water.
CREDIT: Kim Stringfellow
EARLIMART
Teresa de Anda's daughter and a friend stand in the field directly across from her home in Earlimart, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
TACO TRUCK - BUTTONWILLOW
Halliburton oil field workers take lunch at a taco truck just off the I-5 in Buttonwillow, while Tim Halbur records an interview.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
CLEAN HARBORS DUMP - BUTTONWILLOW
Toxic waste dump just west of Buttonwillow. Truck traffic carrying toxic waste has historically used the road through Buttonwillow as a major route from the I-5 to the dump.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
GRAPEVINE
Diesel trucks ply the I-5 in the Grapevine, just south of Lebec, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
PROPOSITION 65 WARNING
The Proposition 65 Warning is required by law to be posted outside facilities that emit chemicals known to cause cancer in the state of California.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST LOS ANGELES
The Gutierrezes stand in front of their home in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow
TREEHOUSE -BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST LOS ANGELES
This treehouse is built on a soundwall on the I-5, in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.
Photo: Amy Balkin
