City of Oil

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Los Angeles, you might be surprised to learn, sits on top of the largest urban oil field in the country and has been the site of oil extraction for almost 150 years. Today, nearly 5,000 oil wells remain active in Los Angeles County alone, many operating in communities of color, often very close to homes, schools, and hospitals.

Latino USA visits a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, the epicenter of an anti-oil-drilling movement that is gaining momentum. We meet Nalleli Cobo, the 18-year-old who’s working to shut down the oil industry, one well at a time.

This episode originally aired in June of 2019.

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:32.9	This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Cultura.
0:36.7	It's Latino USA, it's Latino USA, Latino USA.
0:39.8	I'm Maria Inohosa.
0:41.3	We bring you stories that are under reported, but that mattered to you overworked by the
0:45.8	rest of the media.
0:46.8	And while the country is struggling to deal with these problems, we listen to the stories
0:49.9	of black and Latino students.
0:51.4	The United Latino Front, a cultural renaissance, organizing at the forefront of the movement.
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1:02.8	Hola, Latino USA listener, here's an episode from our archives.
1:07.8	So it was around 2010, so I was mind going on 10 that I started getting really sick out
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1:17.4	She started getting body spasms to the point where she sometimes couldn't even walk.
1:43.0	She started getting heart palpitations, stomach pain, and headaches.
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