[CEWS Archival Document Media] Coronavirus takes wrenching toll on Orange County Latinos who have no choice but to work
Latinos in Orange County, California are most at risk for COVID-19 and also are in positions that they have no choice but to work.
[CEWS Artifact] Positive COVID-19 tests mapped to OC zip codes
This series of maps illustrates that COVID-19 cases are in Anaheim and Santa Ana.
New California law funds COVID-19 outreach, enforcement for farmworkers
This article disucsses two laws aimed at helping California’s "essential workers” during the COVID-19 crisis.
We Love Our Essential Workers
Connie saw this homemade sign in Orange, California.
Tanya Matthan: environmental justice and epistemic violence
tanyamatthanIn their introduction, Vermeylen's argument for a particularist and decolonial approach to justice through a recognition of plural ontologies and epistemologies that decenters Western liberal discourse and its theory of justice. How does bringing the lens of coloniality into environmental justice literature alter our visions of energy futures? Can we make appeals to environmental justice without recourse to liberal theories of individual rights and property ownership? More specifically, I am wondering how our team can study and address this dynamic plurality of ways of understanding and experiencing in/justice in this site, and how can we engage this plurality in productive ways? What axes of difference and inequality should we be looking for/at (race, gender, class, sexual orientation, citizenship, housing status, etc)? If the Anthropocene is coloniality by another name, how can we foreground this in our approach?
This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.