Zoned for Resistance

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As Covid-19 first spread through Chicago, the residents of Little Village faced another imminent crisis — the hastily-approved demolition of an old coal-fired power plant that left the neighborhood shrouded in dust during a pandemic lock-down. This week, reporter Jenny Casas tells the story of Kim Wasserman's decades-long fight for environmental justice in Little Village and the lessons it offers for protest movements sweeping the country. You can read the full history of how Chicago's coal power plants were closed in Kari Lydersen’s book, "Closing the Cloud Factories: Lessons from the fight to shut down Chicago’s coal plants" as well as view the most recent coverage of the fallout from the implosion via Mauricio Peña on Block Club Chicago here.

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0:00.0	Hey gang, we've been away for the holiday, but we're back this week with a story about change.
0:07.8	And how you know when you've got it or when you don't.
0:11.2	A heads up for people who don't like profanity, there are some swears in here, but, you know, sometimes politics is enough to make you cussin mad.
0:20.0	I'm Kyri-right, and this is the United States of Anxiety, a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future. Right Right Right Right Now.
0:35.0	U.S.S. U.S.S.
0:39.0	U.S. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.P.
0:42.0	H.P.S.P. Hey!
0:43.0	My!
0:45.0	My!
0:46.0	And!
0:47.0	Oh!
0:48.0	uh...
0:52.0	My name is
0:50.0	uh...
0:52.0	uh... uh... my name is Alek. I am 44 years old. I live on 32nd and heart
0:58.7	Alexandra Perez lives in a small two-story house on the southwest side of Chicago.
1:03.7	And for most of her life, aside from a few years growing up in Mexico,
1:07.8	this is where she's lived inside this same one-mile radius
1:11.9	in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood called Little Village.
1:15.0	Yeah, I was at Bolaski and 30th and from 30th and when I got married we moved into this house.
1:20.0	So I just literally cross the street not until I did. She's got a
1:26.6	cousin next door another one around the corner her roots here run deep. I am a Chicago Public School eighth grade teacher by
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