Let the world breathe 3 heart .pdf

Did you know that L.A’s car addiction could stop your heart from beating?  The American Heart Association says that people with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are at increased risk of death when they are exposed to air pollution. 

While middle class and upper class people, often times white, can afford to live near the coast away from the concentration of L.A.’s lethal air, whole Black and Latino poor and working class neighborhoods are fair game for factories and traffic-congested streets and freeways.  Autos and trucks play bumper cars in the streets and on gridlocked freeways creating a cloud of whisky-colored, heart cloggin, eye-irritating fumes that settle over neighborhoods as people sleep, work and play.  

Join the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign to challenge MTA and L.A. City Council to reduce L.A.’s 7 million toxic cars by half by restricting auto and adding 1000 more buses, 24/7 bus service, 50-cent fares, bus-only lanes, and zones free from automobiles where children can play and breathe!