Aurora Castillo
Female, Person
1914 – 1998
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Who was Aurora Castillo?
Aurora Castillo was a Mexican-American environmentalist from Los Angeles, California. She co-founded the Mothers of East Los Angeles 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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