Angie Balderas Oral History
Item
Title
Angie Balderas Oral History
Identifier
2024.001.011
Type
Transcript
Description
Angie Balderas is a lifelong resident of the Inland Empire. Living in San Bernardino County in the early 2000’s she personally witnessed and experienced the negative impacts caused by warehouse “booms” and expansions. These include community displacement and health issues. From a young age, Balderas has been involved in clubs and organizations that have helped serve her community. She credits this passion for public service that involves activism, organizing, and legislative work because of witnessing and suffering from the impacts of environmental injustices. Balderas works alongside many organizations such as “We Are Colton” to help people and communities that have been affected by large corporations. She is fighting for current and future generations to have access to clean air pollution and not have their livelihoods disrupted. Balderas makes it clear that being resilient and having a strong united community is key to fighting back against injustices.
Subject
California State University San Bernardino
Chicano History
Community life in San Bernardino
COVID-19
Environmental Justice Organizing
Labor Unions
Organizations
Spatial Coverage
San Bernardino (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
2000- 2022
Creator
Angie Balderas
Ethan Gauthier
Date
May 6, 2022
Contributor
A People's History of the I.E.
Format
pdf
Language
English
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