Protesters in Sacramento, part of a new generation of climate activists helping to redefine mainstream environmentalism in California.
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by Peter Schurmann
Almost thirty years ago East Los Angeles resident and mother of nine kids, Juana Gutierrez, took on an oil giant and won. Hailed at the time in national and international media, Gutierrez was seen as being in the vanguard of a “fledgling” environmental movement, one deeply rooted in California’s expanding communities of color. (Lea esta nota en ingles aqui.)
Today that fledgling movement has blossomed into what is fast becoming the new mainstream of environmental activism in the state.