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DESCRIPTION:Refinery Town - Book Reading by Steve Early\nHome to one of the largest oil 
 refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company 
 town bankrolled by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of a 
 hundred thousand had experienced the by-products of decades’ worth of 
 poverty, substandard housing, and poorly funded public education. It had 
 one of the highest homicide rates, per capita, in the country and a jobless 
 rate often twice the national average.\n But in 2012, when veteran labor 
 reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond, he witnessed a 
 surprising transformation. In Refinery Town, Early chronicles the ten years 
 of successful community organizing in Richmond that raised the minimum 
 wage, defeated a casino development project, created a municipal ID to aid 
 undocumented workers, reduced crime through “community policing,” 
 challenged home foreclosures, and took on big oil giant, Chevron. This 
 compelling story of a city remade provides a model for citizens engaged in 
 local politics and community building anywhere.\n Steve Early has been an 
 active labor journalist and organizer for over forty years. His work 
 appears in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Nation, among other 
 publications. He is the author of four books, including Save Our Unions: 
 Dispatches of a Movement in Distress.\nSee also: 
 http://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017schedule.htm\nhttp://www.thegreenarcade.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/12/18800098.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Refinery Town - Book Reading
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore - 1680 Market St., San Francisco, Civic Center BART, 
 Van Ness Muni Metro.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/12/18800098.php
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