BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Mexico_City METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_430_e3c42853219c15dda430bf482c40ce17@globaljusticecenter.org SUMMARY:Rebel Cities on the Rise: The Richmond\, CA. Story DESCRIPTION:After his 2016 campaign for the Democratic preside ntial nomination\, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders urg ed his millions of supporters to remain active in electoral politics at the local level&mdash\;by ru nning for school board\, city council or mayor in cities throughout the United States.\n \n The obje ctive of this strategy is to win control over city hall--so the resources of local government can be used to alleviate poverty\, inequality\, and envi ronmental degradation during a period with the fed eral government is either failing to address these problems or\, under Trump&rsquo\;s presidency\, m aking them worse.\n \n Outside the U.S. progressiv es have also been &ldquo\;going local&rdquo\;&mdas h\;for example\, left-wing mayors and city council members have been elected in cities like Barcelon a and Madrid\, on a similar program of challenging corporate power and promoting direct citizen part icipation in municipal affairs.\n \n The struggle to revitalize and democratize Richmond\, CA\, a bl ue-collar\, multi-racial city of 110\,000 near San Francisco\, is part of this cross-border municipa l reform trend. Since 2004\, a political formation called the Richmond Progressive Alliance has won 11 out of 19 municipal races\, including an eight- year period in which Richmond was the largest city in the nation with a Green mayor.\n \n Richmond r esident and longtime U.S. labor activist Steve Ear ly will be speaking about his new book Refinery To wn: Big Oil\, Big Money\, and the Remaking of an A merican City (Beacon Press\, 2018) which describes the successful labor and community organizing in a community long dominated by Chevron\, the global energy giant. CATEGORIES:Talk CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190306T110000 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190306T110000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190306T110000 LOCATION:Sala Quetzal\n La Biblioteca Publica\, Rejoj 50A\, Centro\n San Miguel de Allende\, GUA 37700\n Mexi co\n URL:https://globaljusticecenter.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=430 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR