Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall

WINNING RICHMOND - HOW A PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE WON CITY HALLGayle McLaughlinWe do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children. -- Native American proverbA group of political activists environmentalists and social justice advocates formed a Progressive Alliance that took their city back from the Chevron Oil Company. They transformed Richmond long polluted and poisoned into a national leader in sustainability equity and grassroots democracy giving hope to the San Francisco Bay Area the state of California and the world.Gayle McLaughlin was at the center of that long-term struggle organizing with co-activists going door-to-door campaigning and serving as the two-term Mayor of Richmond California. This is her story. This is Richmonds story.​...the eyes of the country are on you. And if Chevron can roll over you they and their buddies will roll over every community in America. If you can stand up and beat them with all of their money youre going to give hope to people all over America that we can control our destinies. -- Bernie Sanders at Richmond Town Hall for the Richmond Progressive Alliance​