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Steve Early, Gayle McLaughlin & Andres Soto: Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money & the Remaking of an American City
First Congregational Church of Oakland
Oakland, CA
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Steve Early, Gayle McLaughlin & Andres Soto: Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money & the Remaking of an American City
         KPFA Radio 94.1FM and St. Johns Presbyterian Church present

 Steve Early, Gayle McLaughlin, AndrĂ©s Soto
   Refinery Town:  Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
  *Co-sponsored by 22 progressive organizations (see below)
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Thursday, February 2, 2017   7:30 PM
First Congregational Church
2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA
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Refinery Town is based on one citys experience, but it reflects the lessons of grassroots organizing elsewhereThis timely book offers ideas and inspiration for making change where it counts the mostamong friends, neighbors, and fellow community members.  Senator Bernie Sanders

Labor Activist Steve Early documents how a largely non-white working class community of 110,000 people spawned a vibrant culture of resistance to corporate power after more than a century of political dominance by the Chevron Corporation. Richmond, California - long a proto-typical company town with one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country, with deindustrialization, poverty, joblessness, substandard schools and housing, drug trafficking, street crime, gang violence and wild corruption in City Hall resulting in mismanagement and near bankruptcy  transformed itself over a decade into a progressive city via multi-faceted municipal reforms.  These were led by labor and community activists, environmental justice campaigners, police reformers, and gay rights activists who formed the Richmond Progressive Alliance, an unlikely group of Greens, Latinos, progressive Democrats, African Americans, and free spirits who worked with incoming Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. Richmond became the largest U.S. city run by a Green mayor plus an ally of peasant farmers in Ecuador, which had also battled Chevron.

As Washington remains in gridlock, the everyday citizen-heroes of Richmond, california, have been getting things done to make their city work for all. Refinery Town is essential reading for anyone seeking inspiration for what grassroots organizing can accomplish, one community at a time.
 Robert Reich

Richmonds creative resistance to Chevron is a model for environmental justice campaigners everywhere- in the U.S. and abroad  who face tough struggles of their own against Big Oil and big money in politics. Annie Leonard, executive director/Greenpeace USA

STEVE EARLY has been an organizer, lawyer, union representative, and labor activist for the past forty-five years. He is the author of three other books, including Save Our Unions: Dispatches  from a Movement in Distress. He has written for The Nation, Boston Globe, New
York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal,
Christian Science Monitor, USA Today and many other publications. He lives in Richmond, CA.

GAYLE McLAUGHLIN, former mayor of Richmond, Ca., has served as the first corporate-free progressive officeholder on the Richmond City Counil, elected first as a councilmember in 2004, then as mayor in 2006 and re-elected in 2010; having termed out as lmayor, she was elected again to the City Council in 2014.  As Mayor of Richmond, Gayle led the City in a progressive direction that kept city workers in jobs and city services in place even during the recession; held Chevron accountable in terms of reducing its pollution and paying an historic $114 million dollars in additional taxes; and reduced crime dramatically. She attributes her success in elected office to having an organization behind her (one she helped create) - the Richmond Progressive Alliance.

ANDRES SOTO grew up in nearby San Pablo, raised on a diet of politics and grassroots activism, such as picketing grocery stores on behalf of the United Farm Workers. Following graduation from U.C. Berkeley, he worked for the City of Richmond helping low-income residents train for and find jobs. Long an organizer with Communities for a Better Environment,  he has been involved in stopping various crude oil shipping by rail projects, blocking the coal shipping terminal at the Port of Oakland, working to establish refinery emissions caps, and helping under-served communities get the justice, services and respect they deserve.  In addition, Andres is a performing musician, and he hosts a weekly show on KPFA Radio.
 
Co-sponsored by:

California Nurses Assoc/NNU
National Union of Healthcare Workers
SEIU Local 1021
University Professional & Technical Employees/CWA Local 9119
Richmond Progressive Alliance
Oakland Justice Coalition
Greenpeace
Communities for a Better Enviroment
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Sunflower Alliance
SF Progressive Democrats of America
East Bay Democratic Socialists of America
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Solidarity
Roots Action
Coalition for Grassroots Progress
Oscar Grant Commmittee
Labor Notes
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Socialist Alternative  Bay Area
Left Elect Network
AFSCME Local 3299

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First Congregational Church of Oakland (View)
2501 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612
United States

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Arts > Literary

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