AN LAX EXPANSION IS A DOWNGRADE FOR OUR HEALTH

The city of Los Angeles and the airport authority are pushing through an expansion of LAX airport that will have a harmful impact on Los Angeles, the neighborhoods nearby, its residents and the workers that live there. The current planned expansion will increase noise, air pollution, gentrification as well as worsen traffic. All those items are bad enough as it is in neighborhoods such as El Segundo, Inglewood and Lennox.

Working class neighborhoods like yours deserve better. The city of LA and airport authority should prioritize the needs of Black and Brown communities that reside near the airport and have to deal with the increased noise of airplanes and dumping of airplane fuel that contribute to structural environmental racism. Our priorities are healthy neighborhoods where families can grow up safely with investments in our future rather than enriching pandemic profiteers such as corporations and airlines. That is why we oppose the plans as they are currently envisioned and demand that the city and the airport authority radically re-imagine the project as a modernization centered on the needs and health of the Black and Brown communities near LAX.

TAKE ACTION: SIGN OUR PETITION

Help us advocate for the Black and Brown communities in around LAX.

Sign our change.org petition now and let the LA City Council and the airport authority know that you stand behind the Brown and Black Essential Workers who kept it running the pandemic. An expansion at LAX must be done in a way that properly reckons with issues of environmental justice and equity, front and center.

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WHITE PAPER: Read “Turbulence Ahead,” our 34-page report on what  LAX’s expansion means for the City of Los Angeles’ legacy on racial equity & environmental justice. The report takes a critical look at the impact of the expansion, including noise pollution, the public health consequences and the impact on the Essential Workers who make up the airports’ work force.