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Courtesy of the Richmond Progressive Alliance. “The armpit of the Bay Area.” That’s how the city of Richmond, California was contemptuously described by a neighbouring city’s mayor only a few years ago, a reputation earned by decades of crime, corruption, and the unchallenged reign of fossil-fuel titan Chevron.
While San Francisco, Silicon Valley and most outlying areas grew ever wealthier and more privileged, Richmond, 80 percent nonwhite, and dominated politically and environmentally by the gigantic, 3,000-acre (around 1,200 hectares) Chevron refinery, festered.
