Neighborhoods like Little Village, where a botched implosion of a smoke stack in 2020 covered the area in dust and debris, are the focus.
, people fought and stopped the planned move of a metal scrapping company to their neighborhood from Lincoln Park.
"I think when we have clean air, clean water, and a clean neighborhood, and a clean backyard for kids to play with and also reparations for all the suffering that our communities have endured, there's also the issue of a lot of sick people, who, it was no fault of their own, that are now, for life, going to have COPD, respiratory problems, heart problems. So, having universal healthcare is environmental justice in our opinion," Bautista said.
She cited air quality issues, water quality issues and living on land that's contaminated, "and there was no processes or policies in place at the time when we started 40 years ago to have a conversation with us."
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