Graciela Mendez Oral History
Item
Title
Graciela Mendez Oral History
Identifier
2024.001.010
Type
Transcript
Description
Graciela Mendez, a long-time Los Angeles resident, expresses her experience as a commuter on the 60 freeway that takes her from Los Angeles County to the Inland Empire. She briefly discusses her upbringing in Culver City Los Angeles and the introduction of the Freeway construction and how it transformed the landscape and everyday life, including traffic, time management, safety, and health impacts. In addition to this Graciela speaks on the negative health impacts of warehouses near Jurupa, Moreno Valley, and San Bernardino. Discussing the carelessness of the city and the consequences being pushed on the working class. Moreover her countless years of experiencing environmental inequity with warehouse implementation in low-income working-class communities as well as freeways and truck stops, she became part of the Peoples Collective for Environmental Justice to assist in creating a better future with reduced warehouse expansion and advocating for community health.
Subject
Development
Spatial Coverage
Environmental Justice Organizing
Mira Loma Village
Culver City
Pilot Flying J
Temporal Coverage
2008-2022
Creator
Flores Stacy
Date
May 11, 2022
Format
Text
Language
English
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