¿QPM? S5 EP 8: La lucha después de la nube de polvo

En este episodio conversamos con la activista Kim Wasserman, residente de la Villita Antonia Quiñones Peña y el abogado John Hazinski about the implosion and continued demolition en la Villita, environmental justice and what community members would like to see moving forward.

That’s not a disparity, a disparity is a difference, it’s an inequity. And the difference between a disparity and an inequity is that an inequity is inherently unjust. So, inequality is an affliction all by itself. It’s the epidemic of inequality that COVID exposes.

— Dr. David A. Ansell

Kim Wasserman (Source: Little Village Environmental Justice Organization)

John Hazinski (Source: Loevy & Loevy)

Resources: 

• Piece about Little Village’s fight for change after the implosion co-authored by Maria Cecilia Quiñones Peña

• Recursos Compilados para abordar el impacto del COVID-19 en La Villita

• Hilco statement

• ProPublica Investigation

• Harvard Public Health Study into power plant emissions effects on Illinois communities

Nuestra canción para este episodio es “Sana Sana” by Alejandro y Maria Laura, a song that reimagines the healing song of Sana Sana and applies it to the environment’s natural resources.

Photo of Antonia Quiñones Peña courtesy of her daughter, Maria Cecilia Quiñones Peña