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And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series based on our collaboration with the personal history project Storycorps. In this edited conversation from February s 2020 mobile tour in Bakersfield, 15-year-old Emily Gorospe interviews her mother Valerie Gorospe about her grandmother, Teresa De Anda.
De Anda became a fierce environmental justice advocate after a pesticide drift poisoned people in the town of Earlimart in 1999. Valerie starts by describing what De Anda called The Big Accident.
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Listen to the podcast here.
On this week s Valley Edition: A street medicine team in Bakersfield educates people experiencing homelessness about COVID-19, and debunks myths about the vaccine.
Plus, writer Mark Arax tells us about his research into the history of the Confederacy in the Central Valley.
And, as part of our collaboration with the personal history project StoryCorps, 15-year-old Emily Gorospe interviews her mother Valerie Gorospe about her grandmother, Teresa De Anda. De Anda became a fierce environmental justice advocate after a pesticide drift poisoned people in the town of Earlimart in 1999.
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