(Audio fixed and updated Sept. 7 afternoon. Thanks for your patience!)
Hola from the Inland Empire!
This week, we bring you Tammy’s IRL interview with Andrea Vidaurre, a policy analyst with the People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, in San Bernardino, California.
Andrea talks about the meaning of “environmental justice,” 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’s 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 María Amparo Escandon.
The pod squad will reunite ASAP. Until then, thanks for listening and supporting us via Patreon and Substack! Stay in touch by email (timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com) or Twitter.
Environmental justice, Amazon logistics, and immigrant workers: Andrea Vidaurre