Alex Cachinero-Gorman

Alex Cachinero-Gorman is a freelance journalist, translator, and interpreter currently based in Chicago. He is a participant in the Decolonial Translation and Tlaxcala International collectives and was a co-founder of Intercontinental Cry Español. His website is LosArtilugios.org.

No al carbón: Environmental Racism in Chicago

An interview with Rafael Hurtado by Alex Cachinero-Gorman

The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) was recently victorious in a decade-long campaign to shut down two coal-fired power plants in Little Village, a Latino neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side. LVEJO has a variety of programs, such as its now-notorious “toxic tours” of the worst polluters in the community.