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  • Community activist Graciela Larios interviews Kim and Tommy Rocha on Storycorps.me about their fight to stop a warehouse from being built 70 feet from their home.

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How one California community is fighting to keep a massive warehouse — and the pollution it would bring — out of their backyard

May 17, 2016, by MFN Staff

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