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DESCRIPTION:Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, 
 California, was once a prototypical company town dominated by Chevron 
 Corporation. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred 
 thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public 
 services. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the 
 country and a jobless rate twice the national average.\n\nRefinery Town: 
 Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City chronicles the 
 fifteen years of successful community organizing that raised the local 
 minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, challenged home 
 foreclosures and evictions, and sought fair taxation of Big Oil and Big 
 Soda. The book features a dynamic cast of characters—from 
 ninety-five-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, the country's oldest full-time 
 national-park ranger and witness to Richmond's complex history; to Gayle 
 McLaughlin, the Green mayor who challenged Chevron and won, to police chief 
 Chris Magnus, who brought community policing to Richmond and is now one of 
 America's leading public safety reformers.\n\nPart urban history, part call 
 to action, Refinery Town shows how concerned citizens can harness the power 
 of local politics to reclaim their community and make municipal government 
 a source of much-needed policy innovation.\n\nSteve Early, author of 
 Refinery Town, has been an organizer, lawyer, union representative, and 
 labor activist for the past forty-five years. He has written three other 
 books, including Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress. 
 He lives in Richmond, California, with his wife, Suzanne Gordon.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/19/18800267.php
SUMMARY:How Grassroots Politics Transformed Former Company Town Richmond, CA
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/19/18800267.php
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