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5/18/19 Our Voice, Our County- Festival!

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Saturday, May 18 | 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m
Los Angeles Harbor College PE/Wellness Center
1111 Figueroa Place Wilmington, CA 90744

Click HERE for more info.

How would you improve the community in which you live? Bring us your ideas for sustainable housing, air quality, parks, and more to inform the #OurCountyLA sustainability plan. More information and RSVP link at OurCountyLA.org #OurCountyLA

Richmond Community Meeting Saturday, April 13, from 9:30am-12pm

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Please join CBE for our monthly Members Meeting.

Where: 120 Broadway, suite 2, Richmond, CA, 94804

See FB invite here.

9:30 a.m. – Breakfast

10:00 a.m. – Meeting starts

12:00 p.m. – Meeting ends

* Would like to find out more about the Green New Deal and how it can help you and your family?

* Closing down Chevron and other refineries: How can we decommission refineries and save the planet?

* Video Premiere – Redlined: The Legacy of Housing Discrimination. Find out how the US has created ghettos and suburbs, gentrification and historic racial discrimination.

* Will Richmond ban coal and petroleum coke shipments at the port? How can you help?

* What is the status of the battle over Pt. Molate and how will it impact the people of Richmond?

* Safe Return Richard Boyd Fellow Update: Lamar Harrison

Dan Sakaguchi, CBE staff researcher, will share his research on how the Green New Deal can impact people in Richmond.

Greg Karras, CBE Senior Scientist, will discuss his new study calling for the shutting down of all California oil refineries in the next ten years or risk losing the planet.

Ron Chavez of the Greenlining Institute has created a new video showing how the US government has shaped racially discriminatory housing patterns that have shaped our lives.

A representative of No Coal in Richmond will present on the status of a proposed ordinance to limit these deadly shipments.

A representative from the Pt. Molate Alliance will present an update for us and how we can help.

CBE member Lamar Harrison will give us an update on his experiences as a Richard Boyd Fellow

2/1/19 Caravan: Demand a BAN of deadly chemical (MHF) at SCAQMD meeting

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Click for more information. Join our Caravan to South Coast Air Quality Management District and demand a Ban of Modified Hydrofluoric Acid in our communities, NOW!

On Friday February 1st, the AQMD Governing Board will hear a report from its staff about the future proposal to deal with MHF, Called for rule 1410.

When: 2/1/19
Where: SCAQMD Diamond Bar 21865 Copley Dr, Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Time: Caravan 7:00 am
Meeting: 9:00 am-

CBE Caravan (7:00am): 113 E. Anaheim st. Wilmington, CA 90744 (between Avalon and Broad st) RSVP Alicia@cbecal.org Ashley@cbecal.org
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This is a chance for community residents, and allies to turn out and let the Governing Board and Staff known that a Ban on MHF must happen NOW! We cant wait any longer to get rid of DEADLY MHF in two California Refineries (Wilmington, Valero and Torrance, Exxon Mobile)

We must make sure AQMD boards knows our lives are not a bargain we are willing to take, and they must BAN MHF from the only two California refineries to use the chemical.
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-MHF (Modified Hydrofluoric Acid) is one of the world’s most dangerous chemicals – exposure can cause deep lingering burns, lung fluid, permanent lung damage, and death. (Center for Disease Control)

-If released, it can travel many miles as a low cloud. According to US EPA’s Valero & Torrance Risk Management Plans (RMP), a release can travel for miles (for example, a Mobil (now Torrance) RMP says a plume could travel 3.2 miles, Valero’s even farther). These hazard zones include hundreds of thousands of people in the LA area. Risks after potential exposure include serious irreversible injuries, including death.

This is a risk that is too great to ignore our SCAQMD must act now!

 

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