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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.
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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
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