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Aurora Castillo
Aurora Castillo
(1914–1998) was a Mexican-American environmentalist from
Los Angeles
,
California
. She co-founded the
Mothers of East Los Angeles
(MELA) in 1984. The MELA organization has fought against a scheduled
oil
pipeline
, and against a planned
toxic waste
incinerator
, and they stopped a
waste treatment
plant located close to a high school. Castillo was awarded the
Goldman Environmental Prize
in 1995.
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