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Perceptions of public safety impact the physical and mental well-being of residents. In communities like South Los Angeles, racial profiling by police and unequal law enforcement tactics have large impacts for public health.
In the U.S., where our health is impacted more by our surroundings than by our health care plans, our well-being comes down to how much (or little) power we have to make decisions impacting our daily lives.
Racism undergirds the inequities we see in nearly every major measure of health status we have. But there are immediate steps we can take toward transformative solidarity to begin changing our systems and institutions.
Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.
While fighting their own respiratory health battles, environmental justice advocates are organizing communities to hold the mammoth oil and gas industry accountable for its impact on Southern California's most vulnerable populations.
Public health workers and grassroots organizers are intentionally building collective power across issues and communities for health equity.
