Wherever they turn, the nearly 60,000 residents of Wilmington, Los Angeles cannot escape signs that the local industry takes precedence over their state of well-being. Here, cargo trucks roll down residential streets day and night amid stacks of shipping containers and gantry cranes, and the airborne pollution from smokestacks and freight ships loom on the horizon of the low-rise South Bay neighborhood. In the “Heart of the Harbor,” one out of five residents lives below the national poverty line. The harbor in question, which lies just a mile south of L.A.’s commercial center, is the busiest container port in North America and the ninth busiest in the world.
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