Jane Collings, interviewer and senior editor, Center for Oral History Research. B.A., Communications, Antioch College; M.A., Communications, University of Iowa; Ph.D., Critical Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Batres's home in Long Beach.
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Batres and Collings
This interview is one among a series that documents environmental activism in the Los Angeles area from the 1970's through to the present day. The majority of interviews are conducted with either founders or knowledgeable participants in major regional environmental organizations. Represented groups embody a wide range of issues, including conservation, restoration, environmental justice and toxic waste disposal.
Collings prepared for the interviews by reviewing material and talking to informed experts persons about the significant amount of environmentally focused community activism in the Long Beach area. While the interview reviews some of Batres's work as a community member involved in the struggle against port pollution, it is largely concerned with Batres's professional work as an outreach coordinator for the Children's Council of Los Angeles County, and as such concernes social issues beyond those pertaining to the environmental movement.
The interviewer compiled the table of contents, interview history and supplied the spellings of proper nouns and the complete names entered in brackets in the text. Batres reviewed the transcript and made no corrections or additions. Batres provided the biographical information.
The transcript of this interview is a verbatim transcript of the audio recording. It was transcribed by a professional transcribing agency using a list of proper names and specialized terminology supplied by the interviewer. The interviewee was then given the opportunity to review the transcript in order to supply the missing or misspelled names and to verify the accuracy of the contents, and those corrections were entered into the text without further editing or review on the part of the Center for Oral History Research (COHR) staff.
In some cases the audio recording may differ slightly from the transcript, either because the transcriptionist did not accurately transcribe what was said or because of the changes the interviewee made at the time of their review. .
Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.