Environmental justice, Amazon logistics, and immigrant workers: Andrea Vidaurre

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 11 a.m.

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(Audio fixed and updated Sept. 7 afternoon. Thanks for your patience!)Hola from the Inland Empire!

This week, we bring you Tammy\\u2019s IRL interview with Andrea Vidaurre, a policy analyst with the People\\u2019s Collective for Environmental Justice, in San Bernardino, California.

Andrea talks about the meaning of \\u201cenvironmental justice,\\u201d local manifestations of global warming, working-class immigrant life in the desert, labor violations at Amazon, organizing outside the nonprofit industrial complex, and green futures in logistics.

Some recs from Andrea:

* Support PC4EJ\\u2019s work!

* Read The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese.

* Jam to Milpa, a musical collective in the Inland Empire, and oldies by The Chosen Few and Los Mirlos.

* Read Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co., a novel by Mar\\xeda Amparo Escandon.

The pod squad will reunite ASAP. Until then, thanks for listening and supporting us via\\xa0Patreon\\xa0and\\xa0Substack! Stay in touch by email (timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com) or\\xa0Twitter.



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