Richmond, CA: A Model Progressive City?
Event Information
Description
What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come hear from Richmond City Council member Melvin Willis and journalist Steve Early how progress minded activists transformed a city dominated by a narrow corporate agenda into a model for greater shared prosperity.
Melvin Willis, born and raised in Richmond, is a City Council member and an organizer with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).
Steve Early has been a union representative, community organizer, lawyer and labor journalist. He is the author of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money and the Remaking of an American City.
Organizer Othering & Belonging Institute
Organizer of Richmond, CA: A Model Progressive City?
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change. We are a diverse and vibrant hub generating work centered on realizing a world where all people belong, where belonging entails being respected at a level that includes the right to both contribute and make demands upon society and political and cultural institutions.
The Othering & Belonging Institute responds to issues that require both immediate action and long-term strategy. The Institute engages in innovative communications, arts and cultural strategy, and strategic narrative work that attempts to re-frame the public discourse from a dominant narrative of control and fear towards one that recognizes the humanity of all people, cares for the earth, and celebrates our inherent interconnectedness.
