Superfund

Growing up the South Bay region of Los Angeles (in heavily Pil-Am populated Carson, CA), as well as living next-door to neighboring West Long Beach, I've grown accustomed to living next to oil companies, refineries, and various other industries. The smokestacks, the flares, the smell, even the weird purple-orange haze in the evening sky - it all became a part of the background for me. Like many other South Bay residents, I know that these companies are doing wrong to our environment, but it was just one of those entities that I ultimately got used to living down the street from.

Unfortunately (and fortunately), when people within the South Bay started getting sick due to the toxic waste being buried underground in some of the communities, the communities finally started to fight back.

In my documentary, we speak to John Harrison of People's CORE & Cynthia Babich of The Del Amo Action Committee, both of whom are residents of the South Bay that have been affected by the pollution in one way or another, to talk about just two of the many communities affected.