WHY ARE FAMILIES IN BOYLE HEIGHTS AND SOUTHEAST L.A. STILL BEING POISONED BY LEAD? BATTERY RECYCLING PLANT LEAVES BEHIND ‘A CHERNOBYL-LEVEL EVENT’
Source: https://www.lataco.com, September 23, 2019
By: Samuel Ribakoff
Terry Gonzalez grew up hearing stories of a much different Boyle Heights than what the neighborhood, and Los Angeles, looks like now.
“My parents told us stories of my great grandfather working on the old Southern Pacific rail line when we were kids. When this was all orchards and vacant land,” she says, sweeping her arm around her quaint home in Boyle Heights on a sunny spring day. The same home she grew up in. A home her parents moved to from their parents home just down the street in the 1950s, a home where she now raises her children in. Read more.