Tony Mazzocchi’s Spirit Haunts Big Oil Again

Posted February 4, 2015 by Steve Early

Twelve years ago, America’s leading advocate of occupational health and environmental safety succumbed to pancreatic cancer. In the U.S., where the influence of organized labor has long been contracting, the death of a former trade union official is often little
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The Real Winners, Losers in Election 2014

Posted November 6, 2014 by Randy Shaw

Mayor Ed Lee was not on the ballot this week, but he may be the San Francisco election’s biggest political winner. Prop A, the transit bond that was the mayor’s top priority, won handily. The mayor’s late endorsement of Assembly
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Chevron “Air War” Fails To Sink Richmond Progressives

Posted November 6, 2014 by Steve Early

Election day, 2014, was not ending well for Nat Bates, a mayoral candidate in a largely non-white city long dominated by Chevron. The small crowd of supporters gathered in his storefront campaign headquarters on Macdonald Avenue in Richmond was beginning
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Andrew Young in Richmond: Prophet of Urban Renewal or Big Oil’s Reverend for Rent?

Posted October 23, 2014 by Steve Early

In his remarkable six decade career in public life, 82-year old Andy Young has been many things to many people: civil rights movement minister and courageous ally of Dr. Martin Luther King, Democratic Congressman from Georgia, U.S. emissary to the
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Chevron Sounds Alarm Against East Bay “Anarchism”

Posted September 16, 2014 by Steve Early

One of the great things about living near Chevron’s big East Bay refinery—yes, the one that caught fire and exploded two years ago—is its system of early warnings about new disasters about to befall Richmond. In our post-Citizens United era,
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Richmond Line-Up Reshuffled For Fall Contest With Chevron

Posted August 11, 2014 by Steve Early

Municipal politics in Richmond, California is not for the faint-hearted, the thin-skinned, or those easily unsettled by last minute line-up changes. Late last week, on the eve of the filing deadline for city candidates, a longtime city council member not
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Chevron Goes Another Round With Richmond

Posted August 4, 2014 by Steve Early

Chevron is a company used to getting its own way, particularly in communities around the world where it operates major refineries. For the last eight years, progressive elected officials in Richmond, CA., and their grassroots organizational allies, have made doing
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