Commentary: What happened in Pajaro isn’t just a ‘natural’ disaster
by Michael Méndez and Manuel Pastor, Los Angeles Times
Mar 20, 2023
2 minutes
In the last few years, California has experienced extreme wildfires, heat waves and the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic. What has become abundantly clear, particularly from the ravages of the pandemic on low-income communities of color, is that disaster risk is not an equal-opportunity affair.
The latest evidence of this came this month as the Pajaro River levee failed and flooded a small town populated mainly by migrant workers and their families. In
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